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“Computer! Tea, Earl Grey, Hot”: Offline Voice Recognition with Node — Leans on Porcupine, a private and offline ‘wake word’ engine that can tell when someone says certain things.

It's Time to Take the Node.js 2021 User Survey — The Node.js team has announced the opening of the 2021 Node.js user survey and you can take it here – the deadline is February 15 but we’ll do another reminder before then. Don’t forget to mention us when they ask where you heard about the survey from 😄 The results from last time (PDF)...

Using Polymorphic Data Validation with Nest.js and Mongoose — A hands-on guide to validate a document’s array filled with varying data models such as when working with MongoDB through Mongoose.

Serverless Nest.js Micro-Services and Integrations without HTTP — You’ve got a Node app, you want to take it serverless.. you use API Gateway and have your Node app spin up an HTTP server and work through that, right? Nope, there’s a more direct way to do it.

Building a Terminal Chat App with Serverless Redis — This is a bit of fun, but the sort of fun I like when it involves Redis, serverless, and Node. Blessed handles the terminal UI, and Lambda Store the serverless Redis.

Building Modern Native Addons for Node in 2020 — N-API provides a stable API to develop native add-ons against and all LTS versions of Node now support N-API version 3 or higher, so if you haven’t explored the art of building native add-ons in a while, now’s a great time.

Node 15 Released — The new ‘release’ line (the one that gets all the new features first) of Node is here with v14 due to become LTS in the next week or two (more on this below). But what’s actually being delivered with Node 15?

MikroORM 4: A TypeScript ORM for Node — Based around the Data Mapper, Unit of Work and Identity Map patterns, it supports MongoDB, MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres and SQLite. GitHub repo.

Adding an Auto-Generated Admin Panel to Koa Apps — Apparently the Admin Bro admin interface system just added Koa support.

ts-migrate: A Tool for Migrating to TypeScript at Scale — Learn about how Airbnb used codemods to accelerate migration from JavaScript to TypeScript and how their new ts-migrate tooling (GitHub repo) can help with the process.

Alibaba Midway Serverless v1.0: Node.js Serverless Tooling — A serverless framework used to build serverless functions with Node, currently for Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud only. GitHub repo.

Writing a Game Boy Assembler in Node.js — Runs through the bare basics of writing an assembler/disassembler for Nintendo’s Game Boy architecture.

Using Node Modules in Deno — Ada calls this ‘a bad practice’ but notes that ‘sometimes there is no alternative’ especially considering how huge the npm ecosystem is compared to Deno’s nascent one.

Take the Node.js Promise Reject Use Case Survey — Currently, Node handles unhandled rejections by emitting a deprecation warning to stderr, but the Node team are considering removing this warning and want to hear your experiences while working it out. This post explains the issue, or you can take the survey here.

Fastify 3.0: A Fast 'Low-Overhead' Web Framework for Node — Fastify has been around for quite some time and may be worth another look. The just released v3.0.0 includes a variety of breaking changes and new features, along with better TypeScript support.

Using Node 14's New and Experimental Features — The goal is to create an application performance monitor using some of the new Node 14 features from optional chaining and nullish coalescing through to diagnostic reports and top-level await.

Node.js 14 Released — Woo-hoo another major release of Node.js is here. v14 now becomes the current ‘release’ line with it becoming a LTS (Long Term Support) release in October.. so production apps would, ideally, remain on v12 for now. So what’s new..?