#280 — March 21, 2019 | Read on the Web |
| A Complete Guide to Threads in Node.js — An introduction to executing complex operations in Node with the worker_threads module that was first introduced with Node 10.5 and is now enabled by default. Maciej Cieślar |
| What’s New in Nest 6? — Nest is a popular server-side framework and the latest version is here with several improvements such as with TypeScript support (you can now generate GraphQL files with TypeScript decorators). GitHub repo. Kamil Mysliwiec |
| New Courses: 📡 API Design in Node & 👨🍳 GraphQL — Design and build APIs in Node.js from the ground up. Use Express to build an API and handle REST verb methods to create, read, update and delete resources from MongoDB. Then, in the next course, you'll learn how GraphQL empowers more flexibility into your APIs. Frontend Masters sponsor |
| Maintaining Global State in AWS Lambda Functions with Async Hooks — An intriguing look at how Node’s experimental Async Hooks API can be used to support global state within AWS Lambda functions (in a truly unsupported, experimental fashion, we must note). Colin Eberhardt |
| construct-js: A Library for Creating Byte Level Data Structures — If you ever need to get down to the level of manipulating bits and bytes to build things, you might find this example of creating a .zip file directly in Node compelling. Frank Stokes |
| Senior Server Side Developer - Sydney or Across Australia — We're expanding our team. You'll have an impact on decisions, be part of a learning team & receive flexible working conditions. Compono |
| Sr. Fullstack Engineer (Remote) — Sticker Mule is looking for passionate developers to join our remote team. Come help us become the Internet’s best place to shop and work. Sticker Mule |
| An Introduction to the Hapi Framework — Hapi is an interesting alternative to things like Express or Koa. This article covers the mere basics. Paul Halliday |
| Build Structured WebSocket Backends in Node with Hexnut — Hexnut is a framework for working with WebSockets in an Express-like fashion. Francis Stokes |
| See Things Better. Build Things Better — Aggregating git data into understandable reports, to help make teams more successful. Debug your development with objective data. GitPrime sponsor |
| ▶ Deploying a Node App to an Ubuntu Server with ShipIt — ShipIt is a universal (though written in JavaScript) deployment tool that provides an interesting alternative to things like Ruby’s Capistrano. Wojciech Krysiak |
| Building an Analytics Dashboard with Node, Express, and Cube.js Artyom Keydunov |
| CPU and I/O Performance Diagnostics in Node YLD |
| 0x: Single-Command Flamegraph Profiling for Node — A tool that can profile and generate an interactive flamegraph (example) for a Node process in a single command. David Mark Clements |
| Hexnut: A Framework for WebSockets — A middleware-based, Express/Koa-like framework for building WebSocket powered servers with Node. There’s also a client variant. Frank Stokes |
| log-update: Log by Overwriting The Previous Output in the Terminal — Imagine a console.log that just overwrites itself on the same line each time. Perhaps for rendering progress bars, animations, etc. Sindre Sorhus |
| Digital Transformation with the Node.js DevOps Stack NodeSource sponsor |
| Prompts: Attractive Interactive Prompts for Node CLIs — Flexible, uses promises throughout, and includes support for validating input. Terkel Gjervig Nielsen |
| Franc: Detect a Text's Natural Language from JavaScript — Demo here (keep refreshing the page). Supports up to 402 languages. Titus Wormer |
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