#459 — October 20, 2022 |
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As an odd-numbered release, Node 19 will never become an 'active LTS' version, but sits as the 'current' release that gets all the tastiest new features until early 2023. It then reaches 'end of life' on June 1, 2023. "If you’re interested in getting access to features early, Node.js 19 is ready,” says Rafael Gonzaga of the core team. New features this time around include:
As things stand, we're in the odd position of Node 18.x and 19.x both being the 'Current' release, but Node 18 begins its role as an LTS release on October 25. More info in the release policies here and the OpenJS Foundation has extra detail in its release post too. |
The Node.js Team |
Memetria: Secure, Scalable, Full-Featured Redis 7 Hosting — The latest Redis features, instrumented and scaled with the tools teams need as they grow. Memetria sponsor |
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Choosing the Best Node.js Docker Image — If you feel tempted to just throw Liran Tal (Snyk) |
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▶ Effortless End-to-End Type-Safety with Phero — A demonstration of a library providing a type-safe TypeScript-based way to communicate between frontend and backend. GitHub repo. Jasper Haggenburg |
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IN BRIEF:
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PowerShell, NPM Scripts, and Silently Dropped Arguments — If you’re a Powershell user and you’re finding that some arguments aren’t being passed to your Node scripts run through Lloyd Atkinson |
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▶ A Next.js Crash Course — There are a lot of such videos, but this is a well recorded and up to date one so it might help you get the lay of the Next.js land if you’re just starting out with it. (2 hours 30 minutes) Anson Foong |
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Web Scraping Google Maps with Puppeteer — We’d be surprised if you’d get away with this for long given there’s an official API, but it’s always interesting to see how it’s done. Darshan Khandelwal |
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Your Step by Step Guide to Containerizing Node.js Web Applications Snyk sponsor |
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Sending UDP Messages without DNS Lookups
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How Wix Uses Threading in Node Apps to Cut Kubernetes Pod Costs
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🛠 Code & Tools |
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Javet 2.0.0: Embed Node and V8 in Java Apps — Lets you spin up V8 interpreters or full Node.js runtimes within JVM-based apps. There’s a slide presentation to sell you on the idea and demonstrate how the integration works. (The name Javet comes from Java, V, and Eight.) Sam Cao |
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Editly 0.14.0: Declarative Command Line Video Editing — Brings Node and FFmpeg together to let you more programatically edit and construct videos instead of wrangling with arcane Mikael Finstad |
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Send Email, Push and SMS with Smart Routing, with Just 8 Lines of Code — Are you stuck using marketing tools like salesforce to contact your users? Send notifications from right within your application using the Courier API. Courier.com sponsor |
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lady-gg: Simple TypeScript gRPC Client
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