#422 — January 27, 2022 |
Node Weekly |
Trilium Notes: A Knowledge Base App Built with Node — A hierarchical note taking app. Built as an Express app but most commonly used on the desktop via an Electron packaged version. It’s been around a few years but continues to see frequent updates and is a neat example of this sort of app. zadam |
Building a Wordle-Like SMS Game with Twilio Serverless — A just-for-fun homage to popular word game Wordle, in which you build a text/SMS-based version with Twilio Functions, the Serverless Toolkit, and Node. Lizzie Siegle |
New Course on State Machines with XState by David Khourshid — If you build large JavaScript apps and want to stop running into weird edge cases, you'll want to learn state machines. Spend your time modeling app logic clearly and robustly. Frontend Masters sponsor |
Can Node.js on Twitter |
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A Complete Beginner's Guide to Josh Collinsworth |
Using Node.js from Google Sheets (with Fusebit) — Be warned that this integration depends entirely upon Fusebit, a commercial integration platform, but if Google’s Apps Script isn’t enough for you, you may appreciate knowing about this approach. Tomasz Janczuk (Fusebit) |
How to Extract Secrets from an Electron App — The point is it’s so simple that you really shouldn’t be leaving such secrets in there anyway. Kamil Staszewski |
Build a Serverless Lambda Function with InfluxDB InfluxData sponsor |
Awesome Node-RED: Curated Resources for Node-RED Users — Node-RED is a popular Node-powered low-code event driven programming environment. Various Contributors |
How To Process Images in Node.js with Sharp — Sharp is a popular high performance package for working with images from Node. Resizing is its main function but it can do other things like rotation, compositing, and gamma correction too. Stanley Ulili |
🛠 Code & Tools
Gluegun 5.0: A Toolkit for Building Node-Powered CLIs — If you want to build a CLI app and want both help and flexibility while doing so, this toolkit is for you. Areas covered include templating, sub-command support, argument parsing, etc. Infinite Red, Inc. |
PureORM 3.0: A Node.js SQL Toolkit for Writing Native SQL Queries Yielding Pure Business Objects — Allows you to write regular native SQL and receive back properly structured/nested pure business objects, as opposed to a more typical ORM where you build queries in other ways. Craig Martin |
A Boilerplate and Starter App for Node.js Serverless Apps — Leans upon Serverless Framework, Express.js, TypeScript, Prettier, Husky, and more to provide a lot of functionality out of the box. Remi W. |
Build Video for Your Node App That Just Works Mux sponsor |
fdir 5.2: A High Performance Directory Crawler Library — Need to scan through directories rapidly either asynchronously or synchronously? Abdullah Atta |
Phoenix: A JavaScriptable macOS Window and App Manager — If you want full control over your window management and you know JavaScript, this is for you. Here’s an example script to give you a taster. Kasper Hirvikoski |
Oclif 2.3: Heroku's Open CLI Framework for Node — A mature framework for building command line interfaces whether with a few simple flags or lots of subcommands. It comes out of Heroku’s work on its own heavily used CLI tools and an alternative to the Gluegun approach (above). GitHub repo. Heroku |
Hazelcast IMDG Node.js Client — Hazelcast is an open-source ‘in memory data grid’ popular in the JVM world. hazelcast |
hyperid: Fast Unique ID Generation — Check out the benchmark results.
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