Issue 369 - The top Node best practices, ORMs, and tools of 2020 (15)

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Socket.io 3.0 Released: Realtime Bidirectional Communications Framework for Node and Browser — Socket has been around for many years and was once the ‘go to’ system for bidirectional browser/server communications that worked in almost every browser. It still works great and, happily, the question of why you might still use socket.io (plus some alternatives if you don’t) is answered in these release notes.

11 Top Node ORMs, Query Builders and Database Libraries in 2020 — Choosing an ORM or query builder for your app can be daunting, but this roundup from the folks at Prisma really goes into some depth on the most popular options including Mongoose, Knex.js, Sequelize and, yes, Prisma (so take the bias into account).

Node Modules at 'War': Why CommonJS and ES Modules Can’t Get Along — As a Node developer you’ll certainly be familiar with CommonJS, the module format system Node uses. ES Modules, however, are an official, standardized way to bring modules to JavaScript and Node has varying (and experimental) support for them. What’s the difference? Why does it matter? And how can you deal with...

Fastify 3.0: A Fast 'Low-Overhead' Web Framework for Node — Fastify has been around for quite some time and may be worth another look. The just released v3.0.0 includes a variety of breaking changes and new features, along with better TypeScript support.

Deno 1.0: What You Need to Know — Two years ago Ryan Dahl, the original creator of Node, gave a popular talk called 10 Things I Regret About Node.js where he revealed Deno, his prototype of how he'd build a better V8-based JavaScript runtime. With 1.0 due next week, Deno is poised to be a particularly exciting release and this article does a good...

A Growing Collection of 86 Node.js Best Practices — An in-depth guide for Node devs, available in multiple languages. Divided into 7 sections and updated regularly. This was a very popular item last year, but Yoni reached out to say it’s been updated and has also passed 40K GitHub stars – congratulations.

You (Possibly) Don't Need Moment.js — Moment.js is a popular date and time manipulation library, but this repo shows off alternative approaches, including many native functions that do similar things. At the very least, this is a neat ‘cheat sheet’ for date and time manipulation :-)

How I Build Backends for Webapps — An experienced developer has basically dumped everything he can think of about building and deploying Node.js-powered apps into this article that covers architectural approaches, SSL support, file storage, notifications and more. Opinionated, but it’s always interesting to see how other people approach things.

Introducing Yarn 2: Big Steps Forward for the Popular Package Manager — The first stable release of Yarn 2 is now available, it contains quite a few fundamental changes (in the migration guide it’s called “very different software” to v1) and new features borne from the team’s own usage. Yarn 1.22 will be released next week and then enter maintenance mode, so if you’re...

Playwright: A Node Library to Automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit — If you’re familiar with Puppeteer for automating Chrome/Chromium, this is in a similar vein for multiple browsers and is being worked on by some of the same contributors. The goal? To be vendor-neutral and to make the APIs more testing-friendly than Puppeteer.

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