Issue 351 - EventTarget in Node, Node 14.8, and node-cron (18)

Node v14.8.0 (Current) Released with Top Level Await Support — Last week we mentioned the unflagging of top level await support and now it’s in an actual release :-)

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.

How to Debug Node Segmentation Faults — Your code isn’t just crashing or failing, it’s segfaulting.. and that’s never good. Here are some initial pointers on resolving the situation.

How to Stream File Downloads with Got — Got is an HTTP request library with both promise and stream based APIs and this post demonstrates using the latter to download files.

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.

Shifting from Express.js to Azure Functions — Learn to refactor Express.js endpoints to Azure Functions and what areas are affected when going serverless.

Node and the Struggles of Being an EventTarget — Node has increasingly been adopting standard browser application programming interfaces (APIs), such as the WHATWG-compliant URL implementation, and, most recently, EventTarget, the DOM interface for firing events. This post digs into the how and why.

Kleur 4.0: Fast ANSI Color Formatting for Terminal Text — Has a nice API, supports nested and chained colors, and claims to be the fastest such library, too. v4.0, out this week, adds native ES modules support.

The Node.js Security Handbook — The Node.js security handbook was specifically made for developers to help improve the security of your Node.js app.

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.

MQTT.js: An MQTT Client for Node and the Browser — MQTT is a messaging protocol commonly associated with IoT. A new release this week adds support for MQTT 5.

Postgraphile: Quickly Get a GraphQL API for Your Postgres Database — The latest release (4.4.0) has introduced support for subscriptions and live queries.

crypto-hash: A Hashing Module Using the Native Crypto API in Node and Browser — Get the same hashing API in both environments. Uses the crypto module on Node and window.crypto in the browser.

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