--- title: "Doing the opposite of Jim Cramer with Node" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 422 published_at: "2022-01-27" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/422" --- Plus a Node powered note taking app, a complete beginner's guide to npm, and using Node from Google Sheets. | #​422 — January 27, 2022 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/422) Node Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/t8tvbdiawyhwfzy0yw0i.jpg)](https://github.com/zadam/trilium) [Trilium Notes: A Knowledge Base App Built with Node](https://github.com/zadam/trilium) — 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](https://www.twilio.com/blog/build-wordle-like-sms-game-serverless) — A just-for-fun homage to popular word game [Wordle](https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/), in which you build a text/SMS-based version with Twilio Functions, the Serverless Toolkit, and Node. Lizzie Siegle [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/4bfba238.jpg)](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/xstate-v2/?utm_source=nodeweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content=xstate) [New Course on State Machines with XState by David Khourshid](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/xstate-v2/?utm_source=nodeweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content=xstate) — 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. 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Node.js on Twitter **In brief:** - A developer shows off [▶️ how he uses Node](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrcugNqRwUs) to buy stocks algorithmically **doing the _opposite_ of whatever Jim Cramer says.** Both amusing and educational. - [TypeScript 4.6](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-4-6-beta/) is now in beta. - [Electron](https://www.electronjs.org/) has [celebrated](https://twitter.com/electronjs/status/1486134826272890885) passing ⭐️ 100,000 stars on GitHub. - The [State of JS Survey](https://stateofjs.com/) is open for a new round. 💻 Jobs [Find Tech Jobs with Hired](https://hired.com/join/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=sponsor&utm_campaign=%28b2c%29%28l-all%29%28r-all%29%28cooper-nodeweekly%29&utm_content=find-your-next-job) — Create a profile on Hired to connect with hiring managers at growing startups and Fortune 500 companies. It's free for job-seekers. Hired [A Complete Beginner's Guide to `npm`](https://css-tricks.com/a-complete-beginners-guide-to-npm/) — If you’re a long time Node developer, `npm` is probably second nature to you, but nonetheless this guide to `npm` may prove useful, even if only to other folks on your team. It’s a nine-part guide from CSS Tricks covering everything from the ground up. Josh Collinsworth [Using Node.js from Google Sheets (with Fusebit)](https://fusebit.io/blog/run-nodejs-from-google-sheets/) — 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](https://www.staszewski.me/how-to-extract-secrets-from-unsafe-electron-app/) — The point is it’s so simple that you really shouldn’t be leaving such secrets in there anyway. 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Craig Martin [A Boilerplate and Starter App for Node.js Serverless Apps](https://github.com/ixartz/Serverless-Boilerplate-Express-TypeScript) — Leans upon [Serverless Framework](https://www.serverless.com/), 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](https://get.mux.com/32vVwLm) Mux sponsor [fdir 5.2: A High Performance Directory Crawler Library](https://github.com/thecodrr/fdir) — Need to scan through directories rapidly either asynchronously or synchronously? Abdullah Atta [Phoenix: A JavaScriptable macOS Window and App Manager](https://github.com/kasper/phoenix) — If you want full control over your window management and you know JavaScript, this is for you. Here’s [an example script](https://github.com/azamuddin/phoenix/blob/master/.phoenix.js) to give you a taster. Kasper Hirvikoski [Oclif 2.3: Heroku's Open CLI Framework for Node](https://oclif.io/) — 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](https://github.com/oclif/oclif). Heroku [Hazelcast IMDG Node.js Client](https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast-nodejs-client) — Hazelcast is an open-source ‘in memory data grid’ popular in the JVM world. hazelcast [hyperid: Fast Unique ID Generation](https://github.com/mcollina/hyperid) — Check out the benchmark results. Matteo Collina **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. We can't include everything but we'll look at anything you send. 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