August 2021 Security Releases: Node 16.6.2, 14.17.5 and 12.22.5 — The Node team is always on the ball when it comes to security fixes and releases so now we have Node 16.6.2, 14.17.5 and 12.22.5, all fixing up the same three issues on their respective branches. The two ‘high’ level vulnerabilities relate to improper handling of unusual characters in Node’s DNS library and a memory freeing issue in http2.

Michael Dawson

V8 Release v9.3 — Recent V8 releases have been reasonably lean on new features, and so it goes with 9.3 which mostly gets faster compilation, Object.hasOwn (an alias for Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call), and the ability to attach error ‘causes’ to Error instances. It’s in beta until Chrome 93 (due in the coming weeks) and will appear in Node.js soon too.

Ingvar Stepanyan

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Deno 1.13 Released — Node’s cousin runtime has received a release with a ton of small enhancements, including its native HTTP server API going stable, language server improvements, more TLS customization options, and integrating V8 9.3.

The Deno Team

How to Publish Node.js Docker Images to Docker Hub Registry with GitHub Actions — Last month Liran covered publishing Docker images to GitHub Packages and moves on to a workflow for Docker Hub this time out.

Liran Tal (Snyk)

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PureORM: 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

Keyv: Simple Key-Value Storage with Multi-Backend Support — Need either a TTL-based cache or persistent key-value store for your Node app with total flexibility over the backend store? This supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, Mongo, DynamoDB, Memcached, and, amazingly, more.

Microlink

Caterpillar 6.8: The 'Ultimate' Logging System — Log levels are implemented to RFC 3164 standards. Entries can be filtered and piped to various streams, including colorized output to the terminal, the browser console, and debug files. You can also write your own transforms. It supports Deno too.

Bevry

Slonik v24: A Sophisticated Node Postgres Client Library — A ‘battle tested’ framework that abstracts repeating code patterns, protects against unsafe behavior, and provides a rich debugging experience.

Gajus Kuizinas

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Awilix: An Inversion of Control (IoC) Container for Node — There’s also a tutorial (from 2016) explaining how it works and why it exists.

Jeff Hansen

Octokit.js 1.4.0: The All-Batteries-Included GitHub SDK — Supports browsers, Deno, and of course, Node.

Octokit

negative-array 3.0: Negative Array Index Support using Proxies — For example, array[-1]. Even if you wouldn’t use this (and on Node 16.6+ you can now use Array#at() anyway), the source is worth reading to learn how it works if proxies remain a mystery to you.

Sindre Sorhus