~nodeweekly | Bookmarks (194)

Malibu: Framework-Agnostic CSRF Middleware — ESM only, zero-dependency, and TypeScript types are included. It’s compatible with Express, Tinyhttp, and most modern frameworks based around the core HTTP package.

pg-anonymizer 0.7.0: Anonymized Data Dumping from Postgres — A Node-powered tool for taking anonymized exports of databases. Sensitive data is replaced with faked data of equivalent types.

How Cloudflare Built an SEO Tool on Workers, D1, and Queues — It’s an open-source tool for monitoring new site content called Prospector. If you use Cloudflare’s serverless platform at all, though, you may be more interested in this post which explains just how such a tool came together, including their use of Hono, an Express-like framework targeting edge compute cases.

How to Debug Node Segmentation Faults — Normal execptions are one thing, but when you’re faced with something as cryptic as “segmentation fault (core dumped)”, what are you to do? Tim has some pointers.

▶  Unlock the Power of AI with Defer and Next.js 13 — Defer is a new (and commercial) Node.js background job execution platform.

Voici.js 2.0: Library for Printing Data on the Terminal — Pretty printing in tabular form, to be precise. It’ll take care of column sizing, sorting, let you style rows and columns, etc. GitHub repo.

Introducing Mongoose 7: The MongoDB ODM for Node — Popular MongoDB modeling library Mongoose 7 landed a month ago and Valeri wants to show off a few of the updates (though it’s not a big feature packed release).

Dynaboard: A Visual Web App IDE Made for Developers — Build high performance public and private web applications in a collaborative — full-stack — development environment.

Drizzle: An ORM That Lets You Just Write SQL — Drizzle takes a middle of the road approach where not everything is abstracted away but there’s a bit more structure than just writing raw SQL queries. Type safety is the order of the day here too. GitHub repo.

MiniSearch: Small In-Memory Fulltext Search Engine for Browser and Node — The strength of this solution is that the data from which it fetches is stored locally, thus allowing it to work offline and has good performance.

Find My Way: Fast HTTP Router That Uses Radix Trees — We first linked this many years ago but the author reached out to us and it continues to be updated. (If you’re a Fastify or Restify user, you’re already using it!)

Shell-Free Scripts with Execa 7.1 — Execa is a popular process execution library for Node and the latest version includes an interesting $ method feature for writing zx-style scripts with it, making it even more useful for shell scripting style usecases.

Turbowatch: File Change Detector and Task Orchestrator — Not just that but it claims to be extremely fast and “if you ever wanted something like Nodemon but more capable, then you are at the right place.” This looks very promising and the README is full of examples.

Improve Login for Your Web Apps with Web Authentication APIs — Upgrade from basic passwords to new APIs like Credentials, WebAuthn API, and Passkeys to use FaceID and biometrics to make passwordless web apps!

Node v19.8 (Current) Released — Mostly a minor collection of changes, right down to commits adding trailing commas! Buffer gains a new copyBytesFrom method, fs.openAsBlob is introduced to support File-backed blobs, and a wide variety of dependencies get updates too (e.g. npm to 9.5.1), but there’s little of significant note in 19.8.0. ⚠️ Node v19.8.1 quickly followed to fix a regression that was causing...

Deploying to ECS, Simplified with IaSQL — Shows off using IaSQL, a sort of ‘use SQL to manage infrastructure’ tool, to deploy a basic Express app to Amazon Elastic Container Service.

Ink 4.0: React, but for Building Interactive CLI Apps — Build your command line apps using React-style components. As of v4.0, Ink is now pure ESM, requires React 18, and requires Node 14.16+.

Civet: It's Like CoffeeScript for TypeScript — This example alone shows off the power. In a world where build toolchains are the norm, maybe this could take off, but my CoffeeScript experiences of yesteryear give me pause.

rimraf 4.4: It's rm -rf for Node.js — Isaac may have invented npm which filled up your hard drive with Node modules, but he also has the solution for deleting directories as quickly as possible from Node.

Feathers 5: The API and Real-Time App Framework — Feathers isn’t as well known as Nest or Fastify, say, but it’s a powerful and mature option if you want to spin up a Node CRUD app tied to a database and now it’s “TypeScript all the way down” too (though you can choose to use plain JS, if you prefer). Feather’s creator tells the...

Crawling Weather Forecasts with Cypress — Even if you don’t care for the weather, this is a neat code-led demonstration of using the Cypress browser oriented testing tool for performing a variety of productive activities.

Deno Says: You Don't Need a Build Step — Of course the Deno folks have an alternative JS runtime to promote, but they make good points. A build step has helped with getting things to run in the browser or to transpile and bundle code elsewhere. But with modern tooling, do we still need a build step?

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