#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 😄 |
| 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. Buildkite sponsor |
| 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) Released — Last 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 |
| Backend Developer (Skien, Norway) — We are looking for a full-stack dev with a solid track record to help us adapt to tomorrow's security requirements. OKAY |
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ℹ️ If you're interested in running a job listing in this newsletter, there's more info here. | 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. Sqreen sponsor |
| 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 AppSignal sponsor |
| 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 Adaltas |
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