#335 — April 23, 2020 | Read on the Web |
| Node.js 14 Released — Woo-hoo another major release of Node.js is here. v14 now becomes the current ‘release’ line with it becoming a LTS (Long Term Support) release in October.. so production apps would, ideally, remain on v12 for now. So what’s new..? - Diagnostic reports are now a stable feature.
- It's based on V8 8.1.
- An experimental Async Local Storage API
- Improvements to streams.
- An experimental WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) to support future WebAssembly use cases.
- Bye bye to the ESM module ‘experimental’ warning (though it still is experimental).
Michael Dawson and Bethany Griggs |
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| Puppeteer 3.0: Say Hello to Firefox — Best known as a way to headlessly control Chrome from Node, Puppeteer has recently seen some competition in the form of the cross-browser Playwright recently. But competition can be good and Puppeteer now supports Firefox too. Mathias Bynens |
| ZEIT Is Now Vercel — You probably best know ZEIT as the creators and maintainers of the popular Next.js React framework and their ‘Now’ deployment and hosting platform. Vercel |
| New OpenSSL Security Release To Require Node Updates? Maybe Not.. — A key security update to OpenSSL raised the possibility of widespread Node releases to incorporate the fixes, but initial suggestions are that Node isn’t affected. Fingers crossed! Sam Roberts |
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ℹ️ If you're interested in running a job listing in this newsletter, there's more info here. | OneTesselAway: Building a Real-Time Public Transit Status Device — A developer wanted to know when the next bus would arrive.. while using lots of cool tech, including Node, the OneBusAway API, and the Tessel 2 IoT platform. Robert McGuire |
| What is the toJSON() Function? — If an object has a toJSON function, JSON.stringify() calls toJSON() and serializes the return value from toJSON() instead. Valeri Karpov |
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| Refactor Your Node and Express APIs to Serverless with Azure Functions — John Papa points out a Microsoft tutorial that walks through the process of taking a Node API serverless with Azure’s Functions service. John Papa |
| Querying SQL Server from Node with async/await Rob Tomlin |
| Why I Stopped Using Microservices Robin Wieruch |
🛠 Tools, Resources and Libraries |
| lazynpm: A Terminal UI for npm — One of those sort of things you don’t realize you need until you give it a go. There’s a four-minute screencast if you want to see how it works without downloading. Jesse Duffield |
| node-sqlite3 4.2: Async, Non-blocking SQLite3 Bindings for Node — 4.2.0 just came out. Mapbox |
| ts-gphoto2-driver: A Node Wrapper for libgphoto2 — libgphoto2 provides a way to control a variety of digital cameras/DSLRs. Lenzotti Romain |
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| Rosetta: A General Purpose Internationalization Library in 292 Bytes — Less than 300 bytes, but does have a few dependencies. Aims to be very simple and is targeted at basic string use cases. Luke Edwards |
| nodejs-dns 2.0: The Google Cloud DNS Client for Node Google |
| node-osc 5.0: Open Sound Control Protocol Library — OSC is a protocol used to communicate between media devices. Myles Borins |
| ts-node: TypeScript Execution and REPL for Node TypeStrong |
| npm trends: Compare NPM Package Downloads — A site to compare package download counts over time. For example, what about koa vs restify vs fastify? John Potter |
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