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SQL Template Tag: Tagged Template Strings for Preparing SQL Statements — A (very) long standing library – Oracle support has just been added.

Knip 3.2: Find Unused Files, Dependencies and Exports in TypeScript Projects — Finds unused files, dependencies and exports in your projects and lets you cut/knip them away.

Boosting Query Performance with Incremental Materialized Views! — Plug Epsio into your database and boost performance of your most complex queries. It constantly updates query results whenever the underlying data changes, without recalculating.

aws-lite: A New Node-Powered AWS Client — Amazon Web Services does a pretty good job with its APIs and associated tooling, but sometimes they can be a little bit heavyweight. aws-lite provides a simpler and faster option. “You can think of it as a community-driven alternative to AWS’s JavaScript SDK.”

Passport 0.7: Simple, Unobtrusive Authentication for Node — A long standing project in the Node ecosystem acting as authentication middleware for any Express-based app. There are over 500 packages offering extra strategies and support too. GitHub repo.

A Simple WebSocket Benchmark: Node vs Bun — Using as ‘textbook’ an example of WebSocket communication as possible, the author pits Node and Bun against each other.

Node v20.10.0 (LTS) Released — Node 20 only recently became an LTS release (codenamed ‘Iron’) but has already landed a significant update that backports a variety of useful features, including a --experimental-default-type option to flip the default module system, --experimental-detect-module for automatically running ES modules (when detected), an experimental WebSocket client, and a flush option for certain file system functions. This is pretty neat...

Need to Upgrade Next.js on a Tight Budget? Let Us Help 🚀 — Bonsai by UpgradeJS.com offers fixed-cost, monthly maintenance services starting at $2k/month. Take the slow & steady approach remediating your tech debt. Upgrade at your own pace, one small pull request at a time.

Node.js Download Statistics — Node.js TSC member Matteo has put together a handy site that visualizes the publicly available Node.js download statistics, partly as a way to help guide you as to which versions and which architectures need the most support. Notably, Node 18 has only just begun to pass Node 16 in popularity..

Neutralinojs 4.15.0: Alternative Cross-Platform Desktop App Approach — Neutralinojs offers an interesting lightweight alternative to something like Electron, as it still lets you build apps that run on Linux, Windows and macOS, but Chromium isn’t bundled – instead the existing installed browser engine is used.

Linkinator 6.0: A Tool to Find a Site's Broken Links — Both a Node API and CLI tool that can be used to crawl a site and validate links. You can run it as easily as npx linkinator https://example.com/ if you want to give it a spin.

H3: A Minimal HTTP Framework for Multiple JS Platforms — Aims to be as universal as possible and works across numerous platforms, including Node, while offering the basic HTTP framework features and a compatibility layer with Express middleware. v1.9 just landed.

Release It 17.0: A CLI Tool to Automate Package Publishing Tasks — Think things like bumping versions, tagging, creating releases at GitHub or GitLab, changelog generation, etc.

github-script 7.0: Script the GitHub API in Actions Workflows — If you want to write GitHub Actions that perform operations via the GitHub API using JavaScript, this is for you. Now supports Node.js 20 which GitHub Actions is transitioning to now.

Node.js 20.x (LTS) Runtime Now Available in AWS Lambda — If you’re using AWS Lambda, you can now make the Node 18 to 20 transition with confidence. This post covers the essential configuration changes, but also tackles a couple of changes to the runtime to be aware of.

PDFKit: PDF Generation Library for Node and Browser — A (very) long standing project, but that continues to get updates. There’s an interesting live demo that runs right in the browser. GitHub repo.

How to Use NPM Packages Outside of Node — Learn how to use packages in ‘other places’ like serverless platforms, the browser, and beyond.

Exploring V8's Strings: Implementation and Optimizations — Note: This is very technical and most Node developers do not need to go this deep. That aside, this is a fantastic look under the covers of how the V8 engine handles strings, including the optimizations used that allow it to go toe to toe with languages like C++.

Wild Wild Path v5: Object Property Paths with Wildcards and Regexps — A 'wild' way to access properties in objects (which can be deeply nested) by way of string based queries that support wildcards and regexes. The examples really help to get the idea over.

36 Node CLI App Best Practices — From the creator of several Node-based CLI tools comes this helpful collection of best practices for building “successful, empathic and user-friendly” CLI tools using Node, plus an appendix rounding up popular CLI framework options.

▶  Talks from the Node.js Collab Summit 2023 — If you want to stay up to date with the latest discussions within the Node project, here are the videos from the latest Node.js Collab Summit. For example, have you heard of Milo? It's a new Rust-powered HTTP parser Paolo Insogna is working on for Node.

Bare Metal JavaScript: The JavaScript Virtual Machine with Miško Hevery — Learn how high-level JavaScript turns into low-level CPU instructions. Build up your mental model of JavaScript's performance characteristics through understanding the JavaScript Virtual machine under the hood!

Can Bun Eat Node.js’s Lunch? — An experiment in migrating a codebase (a restaurant voting app called Lunch) from Node over to Bun and seeing how it fares. They’re impressed but found it to be “not production-ready as I’m still encountering segmentation faults for common tasks.”

Secure Code Review Tips to Defend Against Vulnerable Node Code — How do you identify vulnerable code patterns? Can you spot insufficient input validation? Enhance your Node development security with this guide to secure code review.

Free Course: Introduction to Temporal Cloud — Check out our new course on the role and features of Temporal Cloud, designed for new and experienced users alike.

Deploying Node Apps on Vultr with PM2 — I hadn’t noticed MDN was running sponsored articles till now, but they seem to do a good job maintaining the quality. The good thing about this article is you can use it with any VPS, not just those on Vultr.

Globby 14.0: User-Friendly Glob Matching — Give it an array of globs and it returns an array of matching paths. It even supports negations and .gitignore.

cRonstrue: Library to Convert Cron Expressions into Natural Language — Not just English either - it supports about thirty different locales. There’s also an online demo.

HyperExpress 6.14: High Performance Server Powered by uWebSockets.js — Despite the name, it’s nothing to do with Express.js, though it does have some limited API compatibility. The main draw is for folks who want to serve up WebSockets quickly.

nve 17: Run Things With a Specific Node.js Version — Execute a file, command, or REPL using a specific version (or multiple versions) of Node. For example, you could run npm test over multiple versions at once, though note that the minimum version is now Node v18.18.0.

wait-on 7.1: A CLI and Node Library to Wait for Ports, Files, Sockets, etc. — For when you need to wait until files, ports, sockets, and similar resources become available (or the opposite).

Awesome Node Security: A Curated List of Node Security Resources — Includes links to libraries like Helmet (which just had a new release a few hours ago), educational resources, tools, and even stories of incidents like the left-pad incident (which, somehow, was a whole seven years ago!)

node-datachannel 0.5: libdatachannel Bindings for Node — libdatachannel is a standalone C++17-based implementation of various WebRTC standards, as well as WebSockets, for use on POSIX platforms.

log-update 6.0: Logging by Overwriting the Previous Output — Imagine a console.log that just overwrites itself on the same line each time. Perhaps for rendering progress bars, animations, etc.

Super Expressive: Build Regexes in a Fluent, 'Natural Language' Style — A library for building regular expressions using an ‘almost natural language’ approach. It feels a little too verbose for me, but it’s certainly readable. There’s also an online playground where you can experiment.

Is Text or Binary? 7.0 — It first tries to determine from a filename if the contents of the file are likely to be binary or text. Failing that, it then looks at the actual data to figure it out.

How to Build a Server-Side React App Using Vite and Express — A demo of server-side rendering and server-side data fetching without using a full-on framework — showing what React-powered frameworks actually do.

Building AI Apps with LangChain and Node.js — Discover the basics of building a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)-powered application using the LangChain framework (a popular framework for working with LLMs available in both Python and Node).

Need to Offer SSO to Your Customers? Use WorkOS — WorkOS lets you quickly build enterprise features like SAML & SCIM. Integration is seamless with beautiful API docs and SDKs. Join hundreds of companies using WorkOS—including Vercel, PlanetScale & Webflow—and make your app Enterprise Ready today.

🖼  image-dimensions: Get the Dimensions of Images — Sindre’s latest creation is a simple but comprehensive one. A way to get the size (as width and height in pixels) for JPEG, PNG, APNG, and GIFs in any modern JavaScript environment. He seeks PRs to add JPEG XL, HEIC, WebP support if you have experience in those areas.

Node v20 Becomes Active LTS Version with v20.9.0 — Codenamed ‘Iron’, v20.9.0 is the first v20 release in its new role as the active LTS release line – a role it will keep till October 2024. Time to start thinking about those Node 18 → 20 migrations in production..

crypto-hash 3.0: A Hashing Module Using the Native Crypto API in Node and Browser — Get the same hashing API in both environments. Uses the crypto module on Node and window.crypto in the browser.

ImapFlow: Modern and Easy-to-Use IMAP Client Library — IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) is a popular protocol used by email clients to work with messages hosted on a remote mail server.

Accelerate Your API Development with Postman Collection — Browse 70+ free and customizable templates to jump-start your API design, documentation, development and testing workflows.

Express Slow Down 2.0: Slow Down Repeated Requests — For when you don’t want Express to be quite so ‘express’. Use to slow repeated requests to public APIs and/or endpoints such as password resets.

resvg-js 2.6: A High-Performance SVG Renderer and Toolkit — Powered by Rust’s resvg on the backend, this works in both Node and the browser for converting SVG to PNG with a high level of SVG spec support. v2.6 claims to be ‘up to 115x faster’ for large SVG files, thanks to a new rendering algorithm.

Saying Goodbye to Node's Buffer — It’s time to shift from Buffer to Uint8Array, says Sindre. Given his epic number of maintained libraries, he could probably migrate half of the ecosystem solo, but he sets out his case for other library maintainers to avoid the use of Buffer in favor of the more cross-runtime alternative of Uint8Array and explains how to make the move,...

Streamline API Development with Postman Workspaces — Postman workspaces give teams shared access to the API tools they need to solve problems together. They are the go-to place for development teams to collaborate and move quickly while staying on the same page.

Node v21.1 (Current) Released with ESM Detection Feature — “The new flag --experimental-detect-module can be used to automatically run ES modules when their syntax can be detected. … We hope to make detection enabled by default in a future version.” There's lots more detail on the feature here.