Issue 299 - Electron 6 and Node 10.16.1 LTS (23)

Hackathon Starter: A Boilerplate for Node Web Apps — A boilerplate for when you want to start building a Node app quickly (such as at a hackathon). It includes almost everything but the kitchen sink.. A mature project that continues to get frequent updates.

▶  A Demo of Node's Forthcoming New Diagnostic Report Tool — At this week’s Node.js Diagnostics WG meeting, Chris Hiller gave a demo of some new tooling around diagnostic reports (such as when used when users report exceptions or other faults in Node). The audience for this is relatively small but it’s interesting to see behind the scenes.

Caporal.js 1.3: A Framework for Building Node Command Line Apps — Including help generation, colored output, verbosity control, logging, typo suggestion, and more.

Electron 6.0 Released — Just 3 months after version 5 was released, the popular Node-based system for building cross-platform desktop apps hits version 6. It uses Chromium 76, Node 12.4, and V8 7.6 under the hood, so is about as up to date as you could hope for.

Monorepos and npm — A ‘monorepo’ is when you store the code for numerous projects or modules in a single repository, rather than keeping them separate. Lerna is a popular tool for working with monorepos with npm, but npm 7 will introduce first-class monorepo support.

Controlling Chrome from Node.js with Puppeteer — Nothing groundbreaking here, but Valeri is always great at explaining things, so if you want to remote control Chrome (for scraping the Web, making screenshots, running tests, or more), this is a fine place to start.

Node v10.16.1 (LTS) Released — No big Node releases this week, but this minor bump to the 10.x branch focuses on an upgrade to OpenSSL 1.1.1c (bug-fix focused, not security). So, yes, this is very boring, but if you’re on 10.x, you need to know :-)

Amazon Transcribe Streaming Now Supports WebSockets — This isn’t Node specific but the demo is all written in Node, so if you want to do some live, streaming transcription of audio to text from Node, this is for you.

Dependency Injection in Node with Awilix — I hadn’t heard of Awilix before, but it provides an interesting ‘container’-based way to do DI.

Top 4 Tactics To Keep Node.js Rockin’ in Docker — Four tips if you’re using Node in a Dockerized environment.

How to Build a Real Time Chat Application in Node using Express, Mongoose and Socket.io — Building a real-time chat app is a perennial favorite and almost a “Hello world” of the modern era at this stage.

Cypress.io: The Selenium Killer? — Automated Selenium-based tests can be hard to write, let alone maintain. Cypress.io offers an promising alternative, though it has some limitations.

Staying Ahead of Security Vulnerabilities with Security Patches — Snyk specializes in open source security and here they show off how they can apply ‘surgical’ security patches to npm packages before even the package’s own maintainer can release a fix.

Kafka.js 1.10.0: A Modern Apache Kafka Client — Production ready and supports Kafka 0.11 features. (Kafka is a popular open source system for working with stream-processing at scale.)

dotenv-flow: Loads Environment Variables From Multiple .env Files — Extends dotenv into loading different .env files, such as in different scenarios like production, testing, etc.

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