--- title: "Named exports from CommonJS modules" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 358 published_at: "2020-10-01" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/358" --- This week's Node news, links, and releases. #358 — October 1, 2020 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/358) 🥳 Today we've noticed that we've just passed 50,000 subscribers! Thanks for all of your continued support and we hope you enjoy the newsletter. Node Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/v1601569583/s4e1ofofb4porkhun6ha.png)](https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/09/30/exploring-nodejs-async-hooks.html) [Exploring Node.js Async Hooks](https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/09/30/exploring-nodejs-async-hooks.html) — Hooks aren’t just for React 😉 [Async hooks](https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v13.x/docs/api/async_hooks.html) provide a way to track asynchronous resources and Diogo shows off some examples of where they can fit into your code. Diogo Souza [Node v14.13.0 (Current) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v14.13.0/) — A release that looks basic on the surface, with libuv updated to v1.40.0 and support added for [an export patterns scheme](https://gist.github.com/guybedford/4cb418f93ef51f81343d711bbcd80dd5) with wildcards (e.g. `*/*.js`), but a super neat feature is support for [named imports/exports with CommonJS modules!](https://twitter.com/MylesBorins/status/1311026345602887682) Myles Borins [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/0708aef6.png)](https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/09/21/adding-diagnose-tool-to-appsignal-for-nodejs.html?utm_source=node-weekly-sponsored&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=diagnose-node&utm_content=primary) [The Diagnose: How Support Works at AppSignal](https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/09/21/adding-diagnose-tool-to-appsignal-for-nodejs.html?utm_source=node-weekly-sponsored&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=diagnose-node&utm_content=primary) — Developer experience is really important to us, as AppSignal started as a way to scratch our itch. We also put a lot of effort in providing you with a first-class support. In fact, our developers are the ones answering all of your questions. AppSignal sponsor [SuperTest 5.0: Super-Agent Driven Library for Testing Node HTTP Servers](https://github.com/visionmedia/supertest) — A very long standing and mature library for making assertions about HTTP servers using a fluent API. For example, things like: `request(app).get('/user').expect('Content-Type', /json/)` Sloth [V8 Release 8.6](https://v8.dev/blog/v8-release-86) — The latest version of the V8 JavaScript engine is now in beta until its eventual release with Chrome 86 and a future version of Node. The codebase is now [more respectful](https://v8.dev/docs/respectful-code), there are speedups in `Number.prototype.toString`, and a JavaScript fuzzer called [js-fuzzer](https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/v8/v8/+/2320330) has been open sourced. Ingvar Stepanyan (V8 Team) [Fastify 3.5.0: The Fast and Low Overhead Web Framework](https://github.com/fastify/fastify) — Matteo Collina spoke about how to get started with Fastify and why you might use it instead of Express [in this podcast episode](https://realtalkjavascript.simplecast.com/episodes/episode-96-expressway-to-fastify-with-matteo-collina) last month. Fastify 💻 **Jobs** [Node.js Developer at X-Team (Remote)](https://x-team.com/join/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email-ad&utm_campaign=node) — Join the most energizing community for developers and work on projects for Riot Games, FOX, Sony, Coinbase, and more. X-Team [Find a Job Through Vettery](https://www.vettery.com/tech?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=cooper-nodeweekly&utm_term=tech&utm_content=grouped&utm_campaign=ad-88879) — Create a profile on Vettery to connect with hiring managers at startups and Fortune 500 companies. It's free for job-seekers. Vettery 🧑‍💻 Interested in running a job listing in this newsletter? _There's [more info here](https://booking.cooperpress.com/jobs)_. 📗 **Tutorials and Stories** [5 TILs about Node Fundamentals from the _Node Design Patterns_Book](https://www.swyx.io/til-node-fundamentals-design-patterns-book/) — Notes made during a read through of _[Node.js Design Patterns](https://www.nodejsdesignpatterns.com/)_ from Packt. Shawn 'swyx' Wang [Building a Node App with CockroachDB and Sequelize](https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/build-a-nodejs-app-with-cockroachdb-sequelize.html) — CockroachDB is an open source distributed SQL database aimed at resilience and its creators consider the Node ORM [Sequelize](https://sequelize.readthedocs.io/en/v3/) to have ‘beta level’ support for it. Cockroach Labs [Scout APM: Pinpoint & Fix Performance Issues Fast. Start Now for Free](https://ter.li/4ebvkc) — Scout's intuitive UI streamlines real-time performance insight so you can spend less time debugging, more time building. Scout APM sponsor [Getting Started with Eleventy, the Static Site Generator](https://www.sitepoint.com/getting-started-with-eleventy/) — [11ty](https://www.11ty.dev/) (a.k.a. Eleventy) is a Node-powered static site generator that may interest you if you want to keep things really simple. Craig Buckler [How to Fix Postgres Performance Issues with PG Extras](https://pawelurbanek.com/postgresql-fix-performance) — An introduction to a tool you can use to spot Postgres related issues in Node, Elixir and Ruby contexts. [node-postgres-extras](https://github.com/pawurb/node-postgres-extras) is the repo you want. Paweł Urbanek 🛠 **Tools, Resources and Libraries** [twitter-api-client: Node Client Library for the Twitter API](https://github.com/Silind/twitter-api-client) — An unofficial library but using the official Twitter API, of course. The benefits here? It’s promise-based and fully typed. Simon LH [DashDash: A Light and Explicit CLI Option Parsing Library](https://github.com/trentm/node-dashdash) — I like the creator’s justification: _“The others I’ve tried are one of too loosey goosey (not explicit), too big/too many deps, or ill specified. YMMV.”_ Trent Mick [npm v7.0.0 Beta 13 Released](https://blog.npmjs.org/post/630626899467583488/release-v700-beta13) — Adds support for `--fetch-timeout` to customize the timeout for fetching resources (by default, supposedly zero in npm 6 but to be 5 minutes in npm 7). The npm Blog [Build Code and Ship In App Messaging in a Few Hours](https://getstream.io/chat/react-chat/tutorial/?utm_campaign=react_status&utm_medium=promoted_newsletter&utm_source=nodeweekly_promoted) Stream sponsor [pm2 4.5 Released: The Node Production Process Manager](https://github.com/Unitech/pm2) — A _very_ mature and widely used process manager that includes a load balancer for keeping Node apps alive forever – pm2 continues to remain a fundamental part of the Node ecosystem. Alexandre Strzelewicz [node-poppler: Asynchronous Wrapper for the Poppler PDF Rendering Library](https://github.com/Fdawgs/node-poppler) — [Poppler](https://poppler.freedesktop.org/) is a PDF rendering library based on xpdf. Windows and macOS binaries come with this repo but Linux users will have a little more work to do. 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