~nodeweekly | Bookmarks (187)

Newswall: Rotate and Display Newspapers on an E-Ink Display — The downside is you need a rather large and expensive e-ink display to get the full effect, but.. a cool project nonetheless.

AlaSQL.js 3.0: Isomorphic JavaScript SQL Database — A SQL database you can use in Node.js and the browser. The interesting bit, for me, is how it opens up the idea of using SQL to query JavaScript objects – as in this example. “The library adds the comfort of a full database engine to your JavaScript app. No, really.”

On Building Enterprise-Grade Node Apps — A look at node-service-template, a newly open-sourced “enterprise-grade Node.js service template” which covers a lot of best practices through both scaffolding and its dependencies. Fastify sits at its heart.

How Node & SWC Can Make a Lightning Fast TypeScript Runtime — If the added compilation time for TypeScript has irritated you so far, Artem has found a way to get things as fast as possible.

Understanding the GraphQL Type System — Tania is one of our favorite tech bloggers as everything she writes is so easy to follow without sacrificing the necessary technical details, so if you want to learn more about how GraphQL schemas are structured, this is a handy read.

Building a Blog with Next.js, AdminJS, and React — AdminJS is a popular open source administration panel/UI for Node.

TestCafe 2.3: Node-Based End-to-End Web Testing — We frequently link to releases of this popular testing tool (the official homepage sells it better than these release notes), but v2.3 is noteworthy for adding a new create-testcafe tool to help you interactively generate new TestCafe projects quickly. Experimental ESM support has also made it in.

pg-promise 11.2: Promise-Based Interface for Postgres — Originally it was a promisified version of node-postgres but over time it’s added a lot more including automatic connections and transactions, query generation, and more.

Just Postgres. Made for Developers — Fully-managed, cloud hosted Postgres. Plans starting at $10 a month. Sign-up and find out why developers love us.

Eta 2.0: Embedded JS Template Engine for Node, Deno, and Browser — Boasts being lighter and faster than EJS but with many of the same features (it looks a lot like Ruby’s ERB). 2.0 is considered a straightforward upgrade for existing users and is focused more on security. GitHub repo.

MongoDB Node.js Driver 5.0 — With this release, the official MongoDB driver drops support for callbacks entirely in favor of promises (though nodejs-mongodb-legacy can be used to regain callbacks while you migrate).

Modern Errors: Handle Errors in a Simple, Stable, Consistent Way — Create error classes, wrap or aggregate errors, or use one of several plugins to do things like print bug reporting info, print stack traces, or more. Happy in both Node and the browser.

Mock Service Worker 1.0: API Mocking Library for Browser and Node — Intercepts requests which you can then mock. Capture outgoing requests using an Express-like routing syntax, complete with parameters, wildcards, and regexes. GitHub repo.

Nut.js 3.0: Use Node for Desktop Automation — Take control of your desktop environment (Windows, macOS or Linux) from code with control over keyboard and pointer, plus you get some image matching possibilities too. Open source but with optional sponsor-only extension packages. GitHub repo and what's new in v3.0.

Building Reliable Distributed Systems in Node — This post introduces the concept of durable execution which is used by a variety of companies and services to run reliable distributed systems. Temporal is a platform that coordinates workflows and durable jobs built around them.

Memetria: Secure, Scalable, Full-Featured Redis 7 Hosting — The latest Redis features, instrumented and scaled with the tools teams need as they grow.

Unlocking Security Updates for Transitive Dependencies with npm — Dependabot is a GitHub-based service that issues pull requests updating known vulnerable direct dependencies on projects. But what about transitive dependencies? If you’re using npm, that’s possible too (since September last year). This post digs more into how it works.

First Beta of Eleventy v2.0 Released — Eleventy is a popular Node-powered static site generator (and now sponsored full-time by Vercel) and v2.0 includes enough major changes that a thorough beta stage is needed. Zach ▶️ speaks more about this release here.

Packaging Rust Apps for the npm Registry — Isn’t npm just for Node or JavaScript stuff? Surprisingly not. Node is required to make this technique work, but as long as you can package and execute a binary, you’re good to go.

Opossum 7.1: A Circuit Breaker for Async Functions — You can do things like trigger a failure after a certain timeout, fail entirely if a certain error threshold is reached, etc. GitHub repo.

s3fs: Drop-In AWS S3 Backed fs Replacement — Supports methods like writeFile/writeFileSync, readFile/readFileSync, rm, mkdir, etc. but working upon S3 rather than the local file system.

Jazzer.js: Coverage-Guided, In-Process Fuzzing for Node — Instrumentation-powered mutation for the JavaScript ecosystem by way of libFuzzer. This week’s v1.2 release adds support for libFuzzer’s fork mode.

How To Handle Asynchronous Tasks with BullMQ — BullMQ is a Redis-based job queue system you can use to offload asynchronous tasks from your app to run in the background. This is a very thorough, practical walkthrough in typical DigitalOcean style.