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i18n-tools: CLI to Make Common Operations Around i18n Files Simpler — Convert i18n JSON files to xslx or CSV (and vice versa) or compare two i18n files for differences.

The Story of 5 RCEs Found in npm for $15,000 — A security researcher explains some remote code execution vulnerabilities he found in the npm tool and how they added up to $15K in payouts. Few of us need to dig into our tools this deeply but it’s interesting to see behind the curtain a little. (These RCEs prompted the npm upgrade request we...

Electron 15.0.0 Released — Following on rather quickly from v14, Electron is now on a new eight week release cadence. v15 of the popular cross-platform desktop app framework upgrade to Chromium 94, V8 9.4, and Node.js 16.5.0 – none of which are huge advancements (though WebCodecs support may interest some), but it’s always great to see how up to date Electron is kept.

Node.js Garbage Collection Explained — Learn how garbage collection and memory management works in practice with Node.js complete with illustrations and code examples. This is an older item but recently updated.

Node v16.10.0 (Current) Released — No big changes, but lots of smaller things, like npm and Acorn being updated and a new way to limit requests per connection via http.

How to Implement Logging in a Node App with Pino-Logger — Pino is a low overhead Node logging library that you can use with any Node app and is easy to integrate with any Web framework too.

Creating a Slack Bot with Serverless Framework — The basics of implementing Slack bots with Serverless and hooking one up to PagerDuty on-call schedules.

A Next.js 'New Post' Node Script — How a developer went about creating a Node-powered script to simplify creating new blog posts in a Next.js-based site.

Track Twitter Follower Growth Over Time with a Serverless Node API — Yet again another great use case for Node.js and serverless. AWS Amplify makes an appearance here, too.

Ackee: A Self-Hosted, Node-Based Web Analytics Tool — If you want to self host your own Web analytics system and have privacy in mind.

nbb: Adhoc ClojureScript Scripting on Node.js — If you want to write ClojureScript and run it quickly on top of Node, this provides a way.

Lowdb 3.0: A Small Local JSON Database — Supports Node, Electron and the browser, and might be suited if you want a very lightweight data store you can query with pure JS.

xv: Simple, Fast and Small Test Runner with Native ESM Support — Love this project’s logo which deftly explains the name of the project too.

Tasuku (タスク): A Minimal Task Runner for Node — Tasuku, which is simply Japanese for ‘task’, provides a clean way to break up processes into small tasks which can then be run in the right order with progress displayed elegantly in the terminal. Check out the succinct README.

Node v16.9.1 (Current) Released — A teeny-tiny update to fix a regression introduction by Node 16.9.0’s V8 9.3 update. If you missed last week’s issue, 16.9.0 had an interesting new feature called Corepack.

▶  Fastify in One Minute — This isn’t one of those ultra high level videos where you see nothing useful - it’s fast paced, code heavy, and demonstrative - all in one minute. And it might convince you to give Fastify a go for your next HTTP API/webapp.

▶  Get Started with Fastify (A Workshop Recording) — If the one minute video above whet your appetite, here’s a 52-minute workshop recorded live earlier this year.

Building a Virtual Conference Ticket System with Begin, AWS and Puppeteer — From one of the organizers of CascadiaJS comes a piece on creating a virtual event ticket system. Node.js is used but it’s Begin’s Arc serverless deployment mechanism that gets it all running.

How to Track 'Blipped' Marvel Characters with Node and CockroachDB — You could write what I know about Marvel on the back of a postage stamp, but if you fancy a Marvel-themed excuse to play with CockroachDB (the distributed SQL database) from Node, here you go.

Handbrake-JS: Control Video Encoding and Transcoding from Node — A Node.js interface to the popular, open source Handbrake video transcoding tool.

Why Electron Apps Are Fine — While Niels agrees with many common criticisms of Electron, his users don’t care, and he says you shouldn’t care either.

Simple Concurrency in Go for Fans of JavaScript's Promise.all — If Go is a language that interests you, you can both see how a common JavaScript concept translates over and.. you can check out our Go newsletter ;-)