Issue 297 - How to dynamically generate images with Node on ZEIT Now (22)

swagger-routes-express: Connect Express Route Controllers to RESTful Paths using a Swagger Definition File — For Swagger or OpenAPI users. Here’s a tutorial on how to use it.

aws-lambda-fastify: Use Fastify to Build AWS Lambda Functions — Fastify is a Hapi and Express-inspired plugin-oriented Web framework and this will help you use it in a serverless manner.

Quark: A Software 'Sketchbook' for Node, HTML and CSS Experiments — Built in Electron but currently for Windows and Linux only, Quark is a Jupyter Notebook/Glitch-esque development environment for quickly creating HTML, CSS and JavaScript-based apps, complete with access to Node’s APIs and Electron’s native features.

How to Dynamically Generate Social/OpenGraph Images Serverlessly — If you paste certain URLs into social tools like Twitter or Slack, you’ll see a neat social sharing image appear. These can be created manually, but what if you want to dynamically generate them? Here’s how to do that with Node and ZEIT Now.

New Course: 🔩 Digging into Node.js with Kyle Simpson — Learn Node.js piece-by-piece, from building command line scripts, to reading and writing files, to web servers and more...all while using very few libraries and abstractions.

Getting to Know Puppeteer Using Practical Examples — A handy mixture of both guide and cheat sheet for the popular Chrome automation library.

npm Enterprise Turns Security Up to 11 — npm Inc. has unveiled the first major update to their enterprise-level package hosting offering which includes being able to filter out packages that don’t meet security requirements, vulnerability reports, and improved SSO.

Polly.js: Record, Replay, and Stub HTTP Interactions — Working with both Node and in the browser, Polly taps into HTTP APIs and adds the ability to record and replay requests plus even slow down or speed up time.

Build Node.js APIs Using Serverless — Microsoft’s Simona Cotin talks about how to migrate an API of an existing app to Azure Functions, and how to use Visual Studio Code and the Azure Functions extension to speed up the process.

▶  A Partial Taxonomy of Test Unreliability — An amusing talk from a Node core contributor about intermittently brittle tests, their causes, and how they relate to one another.

Isaac Z. Schlueter Runs Into An Old Bug — An interesting example of what happens when a bug becomes “normal” behavior leading to workarounds that break when you fix the original bug(!)

▶  How to use MongoDB and PostgreSQL with GraphQL — A demonstration of bringing various databases together (the choice of MongoDB and Postgres are reasonably arbitrary here) using the GraphQL query language, Apollo Server, and Node.js.

Node.js 12: The Future of Server-Side JavaScript — Node.js 12 introduced several exciting improvements like ES6 module support, better application security, and quicker startup times.

SVGO: A Node-Based SVG Optimizer — If you’ve worked with SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) at all, you’ve probably seen they can be filled with all sorts of junk code.. SVGO to the rescue. 1.3.0 just came out.

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