#336 — April 30, 2020

Read on the Web

Be sure to check out the Tools and Libraries section today as there have been quite a lot of (minor) releases.. from MIDI parsing and JPEG decoding to generating TypeScript types from a Postgres database.. maybe there's something for you 😄

Node Weekly

Middy 1.0: A Node Middleware Framework for AWS Lambda — Middy’s aim is to make writing serverless functions (hosted on AWS Lambda) easier by providing a familiar middleware abstraction to Node developers. The example in this post shows off the main benefit.

Luciano Mammino

Rust and Node.js: A Match Made in Heaven? — This is technical stuff but using other languages, such as Rust, for building add-ons for Node is an interesting area.

Anshul Goyal

Faster CI/CD for All Your Software Projects Using Buildkite — See how Shopify scaled from 300 to 1800 engineers while keeping their build times under 5 minutes.

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Editly: Slick, Declarative Command Line Video Editing — I’ve long wondered why there isn’t a good way to “code” video editing at the command line other than wrangling with arcane ffmpeg options. Well.. this uses ffmpeg, but it handles a lot of the wrangling for you.

Mikael Finstad

Node v14.1.0 (Current) ReleasedLast week we featured the release of Node 14.0 and 14.1 is already with us. Principally bug fixes, plus an update to the OpenSSL dependency.

Bethany Nicolle Griggs

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📚 Articles & Tutorials

Four Tools for Web Scraping in Node — A walk through of a few different libraries (for scraping and parsing data directly from websites) to see how they work and how they compare to each other.

Sam Agnew

Six Platforms for Hosting a Node App in 2020 — Of course, you can run a Node app pretty much anywhere there’s a server, but some platforms make it easier than others. These all have free tiers too. Glitch, Now.sh (now Vercel) and Heroku are particular favorites of ours at Cooperpress.

Amit Bendor

Getting Started with NuxtJS — Learn how to create Vue.js-powered server-side rendered apps with NuxtJS including configuring an app and deploying it on Heroku.

Timi Omoyeni

The Node.js Security Handbook — Improve the security of your Node.js app with the Node.js security handbook made for developers.

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A Collection of Challenging TypeScript Exercises“The goal: Let everyone play with many different TypeScript features and get an overview of TypeScript capabilities and principles.”

Marat Dulin

Exploring Node.js Internals — It’s reasonably elementary but Aleem Isiaka explains how the internals of Node.js interact with one another on a simple task such as creating a file.

Smashing Magazine

Creating CommonJS-Based npm Packages via TypeScript

Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

Turning Vue Components Into Reusable npm Packages — Outlines how you can reuse Vue components across your projects by automating your process to bundle, test, document, and publish your components.

Sjoerd de voorhoede

🛠 Tools, Resources and Libraries

Node v12.16.3 (LTS) Released — OpenSSL gets an update, and warnings are no longer printed for modules that use conditional exports or package name self resolution.

Node.js

pm2 4.4 Released: The Node Production Process Manager — A very mature and widely used process manager that includes a load balancer for keeping Node apps alive forever and to reload them without downtime. v4.4 improves the Node 14 compatibility.

Alexandre Strzelewicz

jpeg-js: A Pure JavaScript JPEG Encoder and Decoder — It admits it’s far slower than native alternatives but if you need a pure JavaScript JPEG encoder/decoder, this is where to go.

Eugene Ware

AppSignal Now Supports Node.js: Roadmap for the Coming Weeks

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node-stream-zip: For Fast Reading of ZIP Archives — Reads chunk by chunk rather than all in one go so it’s memory friendly.

Dimitri Witkowski

JZZ: A MIDI Library for Node and Web Browsers — Send, receive and play MIDI messages from both Node and the browser on Linux, macOS and Windows.

Sema

Vegemite: A Pub/Sub State Manager — Inspired by Immer and Redux, full TypeScript support, and sized at only 623 bytes, which includes one dependency.

Luke Edwards

Kanel: Generate TypeScript Types from Postgres

Kristian Dupont

web-worker: Consistent Web Workers for the Browser and Node — In Node it works as a web-compatible Worker implementation atop worker_threads. In the browser it’s an alias for Worker.

Jason Miller

node-csv-parse: A CSV Parser Implementing the stream.Transform API

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