Electron 13.0 Released — Maybe 13 is unlucky for some, but lucky for you if you have cross-platform desktop apps to build with Node! Version 13 gets you onto Chromium 91 (reading files from the clipboard seems to be a new possibility..), Node 14.16, and V8 9.1.

Electron.js Team

Node v16.3.0 (Current) Released — A pretty minor update this time. A variety of bug fixes, updates to dependencies and tools (e.g. npm), part of which means npm install commands now have workspaces support.

Danielle Adams (Node.js Project)

Couchbase Is the SQL-Friendly, NoSQL JSON Document Database — Couchbase has integrations available for Spring, Node, ASP.NET, and more. Read and write your data with a fusion of NoSQL flexibility and SQL familiarity. Check out developer.couchbase.com today for sample apps and tutorials.

Couchbase sponsor

Writing Custom REPLs in Node — If you just run a plain node at the terminal, you get Node’s REPL environment.. but what if you want to create a REPL within a context of your own creation? Some basic guidance here.

Nate Anderson

Head-to-Head: Monolith vs. Microservices — Learn how you can leverage microservices to modernize your IT portfolio with a progressive approach.

OutSystems sponsor

On the Diverse And Fantastical Shapes of Testing — Does your testing follow a pyramid, a honeycomb, or a trophy? How many unit tests vs integration vs other? Is mocking and stubbing OK? The testing world is certainly full of opinions and shapes.

Martin Fowler

How We Debugged And Fixed EMFILE: too many files open on AWS Lambda — When running a Node based function, the author’s team kept running into this error oriented around the use of file descriptors. Luckily, the fix was pretty simple.

Michael Bahr

How to Create a Monorepo for Multiple Node Packages — A step-by-step guide on how to use Lerna (a tool that optimizes the workflow around managing multi-package repositories with git and npm) to manage, and publish, two packages under the same monorepo.

Tom Zach

NocoDB: An Open Source Airtable-a-Like — Airtable is a popular, though commercial, spreadsheet-database hybrid offered as a service. We use it here at Cooperpress to help put the newsletters together! This is a flexible and surprisingly good looking open source pastiche.

nocodb team

awesome-nodejs-security: A Curated List of Node.js Security Resources — Includes libraries like express-enforces-ssl and stories of incidents like the left-pad incident.

Liran Tal

Why Tracing Might Replace (Almost) All Logging

Lightstep sponsor

Execa 5.1: A Better child_process — A way to run external processes from your Node app. Has a Promise-based interface, better support for Windows, allows up to a 100MB max buffer (vs the 200KB child_process uses). v5.1 adds an escapedCommand property to the results.

Sindre Sorhus

Forever 4.0: Ensure a Script Runs Continuously — .. or forever, if you will.. heat death of the universe be darned.

forever