~nodeweekly | Bookmarks (200)

sequelize-paranoid-delete: onDelete for Sequelize Paranoid Mode — It sounds like a Radiohead song title, but actually enables onDelete when using paranoid mode with Sequelize. (Paranoid mode is an option where rows are not truly deleted but marked as deleted.)

▶  Building a RESTful API with Fastify, MongoDB and Mongoose — A substantial first part of a promised series of videos, along with the code.

Bebop 2.7: Fast, Typesafe Binary Serialization — Schema-based, typesafe, binary serialization and code generation that supports numerous languages, including TypeScript. Has a built in REPL for playing with the code generation which has had some big improvements in this release. (Its homepage has a neat bit of ASCII art.)

Got 13: A Powerful HTTP Request Library for Node — A popular HTTP request library. v13 requires Node 16 and makes Unix socket support off by default.

🚀 Need to Upgrade React Native from V0.59 to V0.71? We Can Help 🚀 — Read the full case study on our bold upgrade strategy (regenerating the ReactNative project) to reduce tech debt.

node-oracledb 6.0: A Pure JS Oracle Database Driver — A major release for the Oracle Database driver which can now be used in ‘thin’ and ‘thick’ modes providing either the essentials or the full fat Coke version (which requires some extra Oracle client libraries to be installed).

Migrate 2.0: An Abstract Migrations Framework — Provides a simple mechanism around working with migrations without enforcing any particular database or system.

axios-token-manager: Manage the Caching of Axios Tokens — For managing the caching of auth tokens for specified validity periods as well as refreshing or recovering them transparently (such as when the backend has revoked a token before its period has expired.)

CSV Parse: Convert CSV Text into Arrays / Objects — Extends the native Node.js transform stream API so you can get up and running quickly – see some example code. Part of a suite of CSV libraries that can also generate and transform CSV more generally.

Jest Puppeteer 9.0: Run Tests using Jest and Puppeteer — A Jest preset enabling end-to-end testing with Puppeteer.

▶  'I Tried 8 Different Postgres ORMs' — A modern, fast-paced, and slightly irreverent meme-heavy look at the various ways in which you can interact with Postgres (provided serverless by Neon, in this case) from a backend JavaScript app. It’s pretty neat as whirlwind tours go. (9 minutes.)

Advanced Fastify: Hooks, Middleware, and Decorators — Fastify is an increasingly common alternative to Express (more on why here). Damilola looks at some higher level Fastify concepts here, as well as how you might incrementally migrate from Express to Fastify.

Temporal 101 Course in TypeScript — Learn Temporal's open source key concepts and best practices with our free self-paced training course in TypeScript.

Color Names: A Gigantic List of Handpicked Color Names — At first, I thought this was just going to be a hundred or so obvious choices like the named colors in HTML (💜 rebeccapurple) but it’s actually 30126 colors with a delightful array of names and uses. There’s more to this project than meets the eye.

Deploying Vanilla Node.js Apps on Fly.io — Actually titled “Vanilla with Candy Sprinkles”, this post covers the basics of using Fly’s next-gen hosting platform to quickly deploy Node apps (we have no affiliation with Fly but use it for some internal apps – it’s pretty good).

Bun v0.6.0: Upping Its Node.js Compatibility Game — A ‘biggest release yet’ of the popular alternative JS runtime adds a built-in bundler and minifier, standalone executable generation, and more enhancements to its Node.js compatibility (something Bun boasts as a feature as a ‘drop-in replacement’, as opposed to Deno where it’s more of a late addition).

How to Build Leaner Node Container Images with UBI and Podman — UBI being Red Hat’s Universal Base Images.

A Guide to Visual Regression Testing with Playwright — The Playwright browser control library can form the basis of an end-to-end testing mechanism all written in JavaScript, and comparing the visual output of tests can show where things are going wrong.

Benchmarking a 'Compiled' Node vs Bun App — The latest release of Bun (also above) has the ability to compile apps into a single executable (something Node 20 added too, though the author uses Vercel’s pkg instead). This isn’t a particularly insightful benchmark, but does provide a data point.

Better SQLite3 8.4: Fast and Simple SQLite3 Library — With good docs too. Supports a lot of SQLite specific functionality, has a synchronous API that boasts better concurrency than an async one (?) and worker thread support. v8.4 updates it to SQLite v3.42.0 standard.

ts-sql-query: Type-Safe SQL Query Builder — Want to build dynamic SQL queries in a type-safe way with TypeScript verifying queries? This is for you. Supports numerous SQL-based database systems and isn’t an ORM itself. (Comes from a direct recommendation from a reader who uses it.)

Joplin: An Open Source Note Taking and To-Do System — Essentially an open source Evernote, complete with numerous client apps (desktop and mobile) and a server supporting synchronization via cloud services. GitHub repo.

HyperExpress 6.7: High Performance Server Powered by uWebSockets.js — Aims to be a simple yet performant HTTP and WebSocket Server.

The State of Node.js Performance in 2023 — Nearform’s Rafael Gonzaga reflects on the recent release of Node 20 and puts it through its paces against v18.16 and v16.20 with a few different benchmark suites running on a pretty typical EC2 instance. He goes into a lot of depth that’s worth checking out, but if you haven’t got time: “Node 20 is faster.” 😁