--- title: "RIP Node 15, we hardly knew ye.." publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 391 published_at: "2021-06-03" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/391" --- Plus Node turns 12, an Airtable clone built in Node, and catching up with our queue.. | #​391 — June 3, 2021 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/391) Node Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/yenddtz33la11qvyuwi9.jpg)](https://www.electronjs.org/blog/electron-13-0) [Electron 13.0 Released](https://www.electronjs.org/blog/electron-13-0) — 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](https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-chrome-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](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v16.3.0/) — 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.](https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v7/using-npm/workspaces) Danielle Adams (Node.js Project) [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/92b6a288.jpg)](https://developer.couchbase.com?utm_source=cooperpress_node_weekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=q2_dev_awareness) [Couchbase Is the SQL-Friendly, NoSQL JSON Document Database](https://developer.couchbase.com?utm_source=cooperpress_node_weekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=q2_dev_awareness) — 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](https://developer.couchbase.com?utm_source=cooperpress_node_weekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=q2_dev_awareness) today for sample apps and tutorials. Couchbase sponsor [Writing Custom REPLs in Node](https://nathan.vegas/blog/post/1/) — 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 **QUICK BITS:** - Node 15, which was always intended to be a short lived branch, [went EOL (End of Life)](https://github.com/nodejs/Release) earlier this week on June 1. RIP Node 15, _we hardly knew ye.._ - Prepare for a Node near you to get even faster as [V8 introduces a new non-optimizing compiler](https://v8.dev/blog/sparkplug) (called _Sparkplug_) into its pipeline. - Node has [turned 12 years old.](https://twitter.com/nodejs/status/1397914989931864080) Hurrah. 669 releases later, thanks to the 2988 contributors who have made it what it is. - Stack Overflow, the world's greatest copy and paste site for developers, has [been acquired for $1.8bn.](https://www.wsj.com/articles/software-developer-community-stack-overflow-sold-to-tech-giant-prosus-for-1-8-billion-11622648400) [Head-to-Head: Monolith vs. Microservices](https://www.outsystems.com/events/tech-talks/trending/monolith-vs-microservices/?utm_source=cooper-press&utm_medium=email-paid&utm_campaign=gl-wb-2021-06-23-monolith-microservices&utm_term=camp-gl&utm_content=demo-series-trending) — Learn how you can leverage microservices to modernize your IT portfolio with a progressive approach. 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This is a flexible and surprisingly good looking open source pastiche. nocodb team [awesome-nodejs-security: A Curated List of Node.js Security Resources](https://github.com/lirantal/awesome-nodejs-security) — Includes libraries like [express-enforces-ssl](https://github.com/hengkiardo/express-enforces-ssl) and stories of incidents like [the left-pad incident.](http://left-pad.io/) Liran Tal [Why Tracing Might Replace (Almost) All Logging](https://go.lightstep.com/register-tracing-will-replace-logging-guide-co21?utm_campaign=node&utm_source=cooper&utm_medium=Email) Lightstep sponsor [Execa 5.1: A Better `child_process`](https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa) — 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](https://github.com/foreversd/forever) — .. or _forever_, if you will.. [heat death of the universe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe) be darned. forever [ssh2 v1: Pure JavaScript SSH2 Client and Server Modules for Node](https://github.com/mscdex/ssh2) Brian White 🧰 OTHER UPDATED PACKAGES TO CHECK OUT - [Prisma 2.24.0](https://npmjs.com/package/prisma) – The 'next generation' ORM for Node. - [node-soap 0.39.0](https://github.com/vpulim/node-soap) – SOAP client and server. And if you don't know what [SOAP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP) is, be grateful. ⏰ From the queue.. We often end up with a backlog of timeless items that didn't make it into an issue but that deserve to get featured at some point. [How To Install or Update Node by Using nvm (Node Version Manager)](https://mxkvl.com/blog/article/how-to-install-or-update-node-by-using-nvm) Max Kovalevsky [A Chat with Will Farrell & Luciano Mammino - Creators of AWS Lambda Middleware Engine 'Middy'](https://superhighway.dev/middy-node-interview) Peter Cooper [I Analyzed All NPM Dependency Licenses in One Go, Here's How](https://blog.bitsrc.io/how-i-analyzed-all-npm-dependency-licenses-in-one-go-18de0f7244bc) Dulanka Karunasena [How CLIs in Node.js Actually Work](https://eytanmanor.medium.com/how-clis-in-node-js-actually-work-c26f913a335e) Eytan Manor [Five Things I Learnt About Node Fundamentals From The Node.js Design Patterns Book](https://dev.to/swyx/5-tils-about-node-js-fundamentals-from-the-node-js-design-patterns-book-4dh2) Shawn Wang [How to Run Node Scripts in the Cloud With AWS Fargate](https://spin.atomicobject.com/2021/05/06/running-nodejs-scripts-aws-fargate/) Andy Peterson [Using ES6 Import Syntax in Node](https://amanhimself.dev/blog/how-to-use-es6-import-syntax-in-node/) Aman Mittal **Got a new email?** You can [change your address here](https://nodeweekly.com/edit_subscription/*|UID|*). --- **Bored of us?** [Click here to stop getting Node Weekly](https://nodeweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*). --- **Got a link for us?** Reply and tell us. 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