36 Node CLI App Best Practices — From the creator of several Node-based CLI tools comes this helpful collection of best practices for building “successful, empathic and user-friendly” CLI tools using Node, plus an appendix rounding up popular CLI framework options.

Liran Tal

Bare Metal JavaScript: The JavaScript Virtual Machine with Miško Hevery — Learn how high-level JavaScript turns into low-level CPU instructions. Build up your mental model of JavaScript's performance characteristics through understanding the JavaScript Virtual machine under the hood!

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Can Bun Eat Node.js’s Lunch? — An experiment in migrating a codebase (a restaurant voting app called Lunch) from Node over to Bun and seeing how it fares. They’re impressed but found it to be “not production-ready as I’m still encountering segmentation faults for common tasks.”

Jeffrey Carl Faden

Secure Code Review Tips to Defend Against Vulnerable Node Code — How do you identify vulnerable code patterns? Can you spot insufficient input validation? Enhance your Node development security with this guide to secure code review.

Liran Tal

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Deploying Node Apps on Vultr with PM2 — I hadn’t noticed MDN was running sponsored articles till now, but they seem to do a good job maintaining the quality. The good thing about this article is you can use it with any VPS, not just those on Vultr.

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Wild Wild Path v5: Object Property Paths with Wildcards and Regexps — A 'wild' way to access properties in objects (which can be deeply nested) by way of string based queries that support wildcards and regexes. The examples really help to get the idea over.

ehmicky

Globby 14.0: User-Friendly Glob Matching — Give it an array of globs and it returns an array of matching paths. It even supports negations and .gitignore.

Sindre Sorhus

cRonstrue: Library to Convert Cron Expressions into Natural Language — Not just English either - it supports about thirty different locales. There’s also an online demo.

Brady Holt

HyperExpress 6.14: High Performance Server Powered by uWebSockets.js — Despite the name, it’s nothing to do with Express.js, though it does have some limited API compatibility. The main draw is for folks who want to serve up WebSockets quickly.

Kartik

nve 17: Run Things With a Specific Node.js Version — Execute a file, command, or REPL using a specific version (or multiple versions) of Node. For example, you could run npm test over multiple versions at once, though note that the minimum version is now Node v18.18.0.

ehmicky

wait-on 7.1: A CLI and Node Library to Wait for Ports, Files, Sockets, etc. — For when you need to wait until files, ports, sockets, and similar resources become available (or the opposite).

Jeff Barczewski