How to Use ECMAScript Modules in Node — Even the Node docs note that ES modules are the ‘official standard format’ for packaging and reusing JavaScript code, and with more developers switching from CommonJS to ESM, it’s time to look at what’s involved.

Dmitri Pavlutin

Optimize Node.js Application Performance Metrics in Real-Time — Debug and optimize your code by tracing requests across web servers, databases, and services in your environment. Correlate between distributed request traces, metrics, and logs to troubleshoot issues and enhance performance. Try Datadog APM free.

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Do You Use Node for Scripting Instead of bash? — A discussion over on the Lobsters community with some bits and pieces. Experiences vary, and some people move to Deno, Ruby or Python for scripting even if they are Node developers too.

Lobsters

tinyhttp 1.3: A Tiny Web Framework as a Replacement for Express — A modern ‘zero legacy’ Express-like web framework written in TypeScript and compiled to native ESM, that uses a bare minimum amount of dependencies. They’re working on a Deno port too. Project homepage.

v1rtl

My Favorite Microservice Design Patterns for Node — “After working for a while with Node.js I’ve come to the conclusion that there is no better tool to use when writing microservices.”

Fernando Doglio

How to Find Unused npm Dependencies — npx depcheck will do the trick and Josh demonstrates what it does here.

Josh Sherman

Observability Won’t Replace Monitoring (Because It Shouldn’t)

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Foal: A TypeScript-Based All-Inclusive Web Framework for Node — The idea here is ‘batteries included’ with a CLI tool, testing tools, frontend utilities, authentication, ORM, GraphQL and Swagger support, and more. GitHub repo.

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ioredis 4.27: A Performance Focused Redis Client for Node — Boasts support for Redis Cluster, Sentinel, pipelining, Lua scripting, pub/sub, etc, as well as ES6 types like Map and Set.

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A Node Wrapper for the Tesseract OCR API — Tesseract is a mature OCR project that’s now 36 years old and was open sourced in 2005. This latest release adds support for streams.

zapolnoch

Book a Demo. Ship Fast. Rest Easy. LaunchDarkly — Testing in production is scary until it's not. Get control of your code to reduce risk & reclaim your nights and weekends.

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functions-differ: Deploy Only the Firebase Functions That Changed — Selectively deploy only the Firebase Functions that changed in your project.

Kshitij Chauhan

snakecase-keys: Convert an Object's Keys to snake_case — Going from keys likeThis to like_this.

Ben Drucker