#475 — February 23, 2023 |
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▶ The State of Node.js Core with Colin Ihrig — Colin sits on the Node.js Technical Steering Committee (TSC) and gives us a 30-minute presentation reviewing what’s going on and some potential upcoming features (including a permissions system, better TypeScript integration, proxy support for This Dot Media |
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Node v19.7.0 (Current) Released — Two key updates: npm v9.5.0, and the new Ada WHATWG-compliant URL parser we mentioned two weeks ago is now in play (with up to 87% faster URL parsing), Myles Borins |
Node 18.4.2 (LTS) has also been released with npm 9.5 and updates to both V8 and the Undici HTTP client. |
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Node v19.7.0's Single Executable Applications Support — I told a half truth above, there are three neat things in Node 19.7. The third is experimental and significant enough to require its own item. With the right incantations, you can package a Node app along with the Node executable itself for easier distribution. I struggled to get it working and the resulting executable will be over 80MB in size, but it’s early days :-) Node.js Documentation |
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IN BRIEF:
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▶ The NPM Library Creation Speedrun — Social media’s most famous TypeScript developer right now takes just 90 minutes to build, CI, and publish a complete npm package. You could do it faster, of course, but he takes a thorough approach with testing, TypeScript, writing a README and actually building something useful. (Note: He actually starts around the 17-minute mark in the video.) Matt Pocock |
Prefer ▶️ a 3-minute primer to publishing an npm package with the latest tools? Matt's got you covered there, too. |
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Building a Simple CLI Tool with Modern Node.js — Starting from scratch, with no boilerplate. Evert Pot |
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React Authentication, Simplified — In this article, we lay out a new approach to authentication (plus access control & SSO) in React applications. Userfront sponsor |
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Task Queuing the Easy Way with Node and BullMQ — Why do something immediately if you can put it off until later? Message queuing isn’t for the lazy though—it can help make your app more responsive. Timilehin Omolana |
🛠 Code & Tools |
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Papr 11.0: Making the World (Type) Safe for MongoDB Queries — Papr is a TypeScript wrapper around the usual MongoDB Node.js driver that uses JSON schema validation to improve type safety. This post explains how it has recently been enhanced. GitHub repo. Plex |
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NodeGUI: Build Native Cross-Platform Desktop Apps with Node.js — Unlike Electron which leans upon webviews and HTML, NodeGui uses a Qt based approach. Last week’s 0.58.0 release was the first stable release based on Qt 6 and offering high DPI support. NodeGui |
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DOMPurify 3.0: Fast, Tolerant XSS Sanitizer for HTML and SVG — A project that’s nine years old and still actively developed. Supports all modern browsers (IE support was only just dropped) and is heavily tested. There’s a live demo here. Cure53 |
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Bridge Mongo: A Fully-Typed Mongoose ODM — It must be the week for people bringing typing to MongoDB. Bridge Mongo takes the approach of sitting atop the Mongoose ODM while providing full type-safety and auto-completion. GitHub repo. Bridge |
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👾 Letting Node Play Your Games |
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A Node Script That Plays 'Hay Day' — Hay Day is a mobile ‘virtual farming’ game and like many such games, it seems to involve a lot of grinding to progress. Sam has used Node to bring together some OCR, screenshotting, and calling out to AutoHotKey to play the more boring parts of the game – techniques you might be find useful to try elsewhere, perhaps. There are ▶️ some clips of it in action on Twitch. Sam Neisewander |