Bookmarks (1411)

react-nil: A React 'Null Renderer' — An interesting experiment to use React in situations where you don’t need it to render anything, but you want to use hooks, suspense, context, and other bits of the React ecosystem. Like in, say, a Node app. Maybe this CodeSandbox example will provoke some thoughts.

Shoulders: Quickly View A List of Your Dependencies' Open Issues — Quickly view a list of open issues for the open-source packages that your project depends on. You don’t even need to install it: npx shoulders will do the job.

ffmpeg.wasm: FFmpeg for Browser and Node, Powered by WebAssembly — Brings the power of the popular multimedia transformation tool to some new places, though it’s rather experimental as you can probably appreciate.

Graffiti: A Minimalistic GraphQL Framework — The file-system is the main API. Every .js file becomes a schema definition that gets automatically processed and converted to GraphQL API.

11 Top Node ORMs, Query Builders and Database Libraries in 2020 — Choosing an ORM or query builder for your app can be daunting, but this roundup from the folks at Prisma really goes into some depth on the most popular options including Mongoose, Knex.js, Sequelize and, yes, Prisma (so take the bias into account).

The Default Behavior of Unhandled Rejections to Change — One thing that’s potentially on the cards for Node 15 (see below) is that unless rejections are handled, they turn (or ‘blow up’, dare I say) into thrown exceptions. So if you ever cop out on handling rejections, it might be time to make this best practice a core part of your Node repertoire!

Node 15.0 Release Candidate Zero — This is only for those of you who like to live on the edge. There’s not even an official blog post. The final Node 15 release is expected next month and we’ll cover it more as it approaches.

tinyhttp 0.4: A Lightweight and Modular Express-Like Web Framework — Written in TypeScript and claims to be faster than Express but with full Express middleware support. GitHub repo and 0.4 release notes.

Node v14.12.0 (Current) Released — Just a single release this week and not for security reasons. No new features either, just an update to uvwasi 0.0.11 (a WebAssembly system call API) and N-API to version 7.

Pretty JSON.stringify() Output in JavaScript — When you need to convert JavaScript objects to JSON, you’ll probably encounter JSON.stringify() but can its output be made more readable as may be beneficial in logging or debugging situations? Yes.

VS Code Tips for Power Users — I remember when Vim tutorials were all the rage, but now it’s Visual Studio Code, so here are some tips and techniques to help you make the most of it.

Telegraf: A Modern Telegram Bot Framework for Node — I’ve not used this library yet, but Telegram is a pretty good messaging system to write bots or automated clients for as it has a solid API, and this project seems incredibly thorough.

How I Built a Serverless Recipe App with FaunaDB and Vue.js — If you tend to turn to Express.js and a more traditional database for building CRUD apps, this post will present an interesting alternative approach to you. And if you ever get hooked on serverless approaches, we have a newsletter for that! 😁

Performance Best Practices When Using Express in Production — Split into sections about what to do in your code and what to do on the ops side of things.

Gemini 4: A 'Currently Playing' Viewer for Spotify — A basic Electron app that offers an ‘easy on the eyes’ way to see what’s currently playing in Spotify.

Playwright 1.4: Fast and Reliable Cross-Browser Testing — Despite being 1.4, this is a pretty big release for the Puppeteer alternative. It now includes a CLI playwright-cli with which you can record user interactions and generate Playwright scripts, generate page screenshots, and more. Plus there’s experimental support for recording videos of what your scripts do with the browser.