Issue 354 - The art of working with low level formats in Node (21)

▶  The Expressway to Fastify with Matteo Collina — A podcast covering the topic of Fastify, a performance focused web framework for Node, and why you might use it instead of Express.

Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io and Online JSON Validators — Why one engineer thinks you should be opting for local tooling when working with sensitive data, even non-production data.

Caterpillar 6.4: The 'Ultimate' Logging System — Log levels are implemented to the RFC standard. Log entries can be filtered and piped to various streams, including colorized output to the terminal, the browser console, and debug files. You can also write your own transforms.

Log Management for Modern Engineering Teams — Extract what you need with saved searches, alerts, dashboards, and visualizations and easily share valuable data with your team.

▶  Making WAVs: Understanding, Parsing, and Creating Wave Files — If you’ve not watched any of the Low Level JavaScript videos yet, you’re missing a treat. But this is a good place to start, particularly if the topic of working with a data format at a low level appeals to you.

Danfo.js: A Pandas-Like Library for Data Processing — An introduction to a new library (homepage) that provides high-performance, intuitive, and easy-to-use data structures for manipulating and processing structured data following a similar approach to Python’s Pandas library. GitHub repo.

Commander 6.1: Node Command-Line Interfaces Made Easy — Commander is a long standard ‘batteries included’ system for building apps that interface with the command line in Node. For example, you can define command line passable options, process said options, define commands (e.g. the commit in git commit), automate the provision of help, and generally add a bit more structure.

Yarn 2.2 Package Manager Released — As well as being smaller and faster, a dedupe command has been added to deduplicate dependencies with overlapping ranges.

▶  How to Build a Low-Latency Serverless GraphQL API on AWS with Node, AppSync, Lambda, and DynamoDB — As long as you’re happy with the AWS ecosystem, there’s a lot to enjoy in this 28 minute video. AppSync, Lambda, and DynamoDB really allow you to pull together something quite powerful in a short period of time and AppSync handles most of the GraphQL heavy lifting.

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

What's New in Mongoose 5.10: Optimistic Concurrency — Another useful post for any MongoDB and Mongoose users. Valeri is truly the expert to turn to when using MongoDB from Node, as you might recall from when we interviewed him.

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.

np: A Better 'npm publish' — A tool that ensures a variety of best package publishing practices. v5.0.0 is just out.

file-type: Detect The File Type of a Buffer/Uint8Array — For example, give it the raw data from a PNG file, and it’ll tell you it’s a PNG file, plus its MIME type.

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