#​400 — August 5, 2021

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Node Weekly

40+ Node.js Integration Test Best Practices — Component and integration tests are increasingly popular testing techniques for backends. This repository digs into a variety of quick-fire patterns and practices for creating good component tests. There’s also a demo app and examples using Jest, Mocha, Express, Fastify and Nest.js.

Yoni Goldberg, Michael Solomon, and Daniel Gluskin

▶ NestJS Explained in 100 Seconds — The high-level concepts of Nest, a framework for building scalable Node.js applications that offers more beyond what you might get with something like Express or Fastify alone, presented in around two minutes.

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Transfer Your JavaScript Skills to The Server-Side — ..in this detailed Node.js course by Scott Moss covering all the things you need (CLI, Packages, Servers, etc) to level yourself up to a full-stack or back-end engineer.

Frontend Masters sponsor

Node v16.6.x (Current) Released — The latest release brings V8 9.2 to the party which introduces Array.prototype.at. The inspector module (used to interact with the V8 inspector is now also considered stable. While I wanted to feature these changes, note that v16.6.1 came out shortly thereafter to resolve some security issues.

Bethany Nicolle Griggs

⚠️ Note that Node v14.17.4 (LTS) and v12.22.4 (LTS) have also been released to fix an http2 related security issue.

How to Use RabbitMQ and Node with Docker and Docker Compose — A straightforward example of setting up a Node app to use RabbitMQ as both a consumer and producer, and using Docker to spin up an instance quickly.

Geshan Manandhar

Microservices Authentication Strategies: Theory to Practice — Some theory and then some practice using OpenID Connect, Google Cloud, and a Node + React app with authentication.

Tom Zach

Understanding and Preventing Common Security Vulnerabilities

Buildkite sponsor

How to Send Emails with Node using SendGrid — Looks at how to use SendGrid, a third-party email SaaS, to send order confirmation emails to customers.

Geshan Manandhar

A VPS Showdown: DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr — If you want to run a small app on a simple and cheap VPS, these sorts of benchmarks could prove illuminating.

Josh Sherman

Tempura: A Light, Crispy, and Delicious Template Engine — Great name! It features speed, it comes in at 1.26KB gzip’d, and resembles Handlebars in syntax.

Luke Edwards

Typegoose 8.0: Define Mongoose Models using TypeScript Classes — If you’re a Node developer and using Mongoose and want to be using TypeScript, this is for you.

Typegoose

Beyond onClick: Handling Events in React

Lightstep sponsor

pg-promise: Promise-Based Interface for PostgreSQL — Builds on top of node-postgres and adds automatic connections and transactions, query generation, and more.

Vitaly Tomilov

Sift: Use MongoDB Style Queries on JavaScript Objects — I can’t quite put my finger on the use case here, but you may have one.

Craig Condon

AutoMapper 5.0: An Object-Object AutoMapper for TypeScript — GitHub repo.

Chau Tran