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Source Maps in Node.js — Node.js came out long before the idea of compiling other languages to JavaScript was a popular idea, so it’s never been super easy to observe what’s going on when errors are thrown but you wrote the code in a non JS language. However, Node does now support source maps and here’s how it works.

MongoDB in Production: How Connection Pool Size Can Bottleneck App Scaling — See how MongoDB connection pools and pool sizing works and how getting the settings right is key to scaling your app.

3. Node and JavaScript Testing Best Practices — A well presented collection of 30 best practices for better JavaScript testing, continuous integration, and overall quality.

Publishing npm Packages Without Meta Files — What ‘meta’ files (think config files, .npmignore, IDE files, etc.) should not make it into your npm packages? Joel and the Node.js package maintenance team share some pointers.

Node Now Has 'Enabled-By-Default' Support for ES Modules — Node.js 13.2.0 came out late last week with both an upgrade to V8 and unflagged support for using ES modules. There are some rules to using them, and you might find this V8 blog entry on JavaScript modules worth revisiting to get a feel for what’s involved. or maybe even Lin Clark's illustrated deep dive.

Working with Node's Stream API — An entry level tutorial but for a concept that many Node developers get stuck on.

ascii-themes: A Node CLI Interface to Generate VSCode Themed ASCII Art — You have to fiddle a bit but the output from this is pretty neat if you like that console-based look.

Understanding and Protecting Against Malicious npm Package Lifecycle Scripts — Explains the importance of understanding how npm lifecycle scripts such as preinstall and postinstall work, how they could, (and have been) used maliciously, and some advice on what you can do to avoid trouble.

AdminBro v1.0.0: An 'Autogenerated' Node + React 'Admin Panel' — I appreciate many will not be a big fan of the name, but this is an interesting project nonetheless.

The Basics of Scraping Web Sites with Node and Cheerio — This is really promoting the Pipedream platform, but.. I found it interesting to see. And, of course, make sure you’re not violating any ToS and are being ethical.

How To Get Started With IPFS with Node — Learn what the InterPlanetary File System is and how to store data with it.

Execa 2 Released: Better Process Execution From Node — Execa improves upon Node’s child_process module in a variety of ways. 2.0 introduces more features including TypeScript support, process cancellation and being able to interleave stdout and stderr output from other processes. GitHub repo.

Using Airtable as a Content Backend — Describes how you can use Airtable (a spreadsheet-esque service) and Netlify Functions (an AWS Lambda-powered serverless functions system) as a datastore for a serverless Vue application.

How One Team of Freelancers Writes Full Stack JavaScript Apps — Some simple principles that one distributed agency has adopted when working with Node-powered full-stack JS apps from file structure to code generation.