npmgraph: A Way to Visualize Dependency Graphs — Give this Web-based tool one or more package names (or a package.json of your own) and you can see a visualization of the dependency graphs for those packages, including where they intersect. Packages can be colored by various criteria (such as number of maintainers) and you can download a SVG of the resulting graphs to paste into your reports and presentations if you like scaring people that way. There’s a lot more to this tool than meets the eye so have a play.

Kieffer, Brigante, et al.

On-Demand Webinar: Temporal Roadmap Summer 2023 — Get a sneak peak of Temporal’s product roadmap ahead of Replay, our annual conference dedicated to backend engineering. Just for watching, you’ll get an exclusive promo code for discounted tickets. We hope to see you in Seattle this September!

Temporal Technologies sponsor

A Compilation of Outstanding JS Testing Articles — Since we’re taking a couple of weeks off, you might be keen to have some Node related reading stacked up, and Yoni delivers with his opinionated list of 10 outstanding testing articles, all with a Node slant to them. He also mentions his own list of JavaScript and Node.js Testing Best Practices which is worth revisiting too.

Yoni Goldberg

Fiddle: The Easiest Way to Get Started with Electron — If you’ve wanted to play with Electron for building a JavaScript-powered desktop app but didn’t have the time, Fiddle makes it into more of a quick-start ‘playground’ experience. GitHub repo.

Electron

node-jq 3.0: A Node Wrapper for jq — jq is a popular and powerful command-line JSON processing tool that’s well worth having in your toolbox. It’s written in C, though, but this library simplifies calling out to it from Node.

sanack

React Authentication — Without Complexity — Userfront streamlines authentication & access control so engineers can focus on their core business. Read the docs now.

Userfront sponsor

🖼  Jimp: Image Processing in Node without Native Dependencies — Most image libraries, such as the powerful Sharp, lean on external libraries like libvps or ImageMagick to do the heavy lifting, but Jimp can handle BMPs, GIFs, JPEGs, PNGs, and TIFFs entirely on its own for operations including blur, color adjustments, masking, resizing, rotation, and more. It’s not new but continues to get frequent updates.

jimp Contributors

Filesize.js: Generate Human Readable Strings From File Sizes — For example, 123456 bytes could turn into "120.56 KB" - though different standards of conversion can also be used. GitHub repo.

Jason Mulligan

tsup 7.2: Bundle Your TypeScript Library with No Config — Throw your .js, .json, .mjs, .ts, and .tsx files at the esbuild-powered tsup and say hello to transpiled, bundled code for distribution. More in this tutorial.

egoist

delay: Delay a Promise a Specified Amount of Time — “If you target Node.js only, you can use import {setTimeout} from 'node:timers/promises'; await setTimeout(1000); instead. This package can still be useful if you need browser support or the extra features.”

Sindre Sorhus