Issue 432 - The one with the epic code and tools section (19)

node-mssql 8.1: A Microsoft SQL Server Client for Node — Works cross-platform (Windows, Linux or macOS) and supports two different TDS drivers (pure JS and native).

JavaScript and Node Testing Best Practices: 2022 Edition — Fifty best practices divided into categories (testing, backend, frontend, etc.) complete with simple examples. We first linked to this 2½ years ago, but a new edition is now out updated for 2022 standards and with translations in 7 other languages including Chinese, Spanish and French.

Debug Node Apps in Production Without Stopping Them — Rookout empowers teams to debug cloud-native apps by helping them access real-time data in any environment, including prod. Get to the root cause faster without recreate, redeploy, or stop the app. Try Rookout free and start debugging 5x faster.

Locale Aware Sorting in JavaScript — When building a localized app, the default sorting logic for strings might not do quite what you want.. localeCompare and Intl.Collator to the rescue. Is this just for browsers? Nope. Node supports Intl too.

Node v12.22.12 (LTS) Released: It's the Final Node 12 👋 — A pleasantly gentle week for Node releases with just the final Node.js 12 release making the cut. Node 12 goes ‘end of life’ on April 30 and will receive no updates after then.

Basic Principles of Object-Oriented Programming in TypeScript — The author focuses on ‘three pillars’ of object-oriented programming in the TypeScript context: encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism (at a basic level).

▶  Using Google Cloud Run's 'Always-On' CPU Allocation for Background Work — Cloud Run is Google's way to run containers in a serverless fashion, and Node is used to show off being able to run background jobs on it.

JSZip 3.9: Create, Read and Edit .zip Archive Files — A simple and elegant API. The homepage is pretty cool as it has a live demo and a handy how-to. Or you can just go for the GitHub repo.

ssh2-sftp-client 8.0: A Node.js Client for SSH2 SFTP — List files, download files, upload files - it’s all here. Note that this release has breaking changes.

ioredis 5: A Performance Focused Redis Client for Node — Boasts support for Redis Cluster, Sentinel, pipelining, Lua scripting, pub/sub, etc, as well as ES6 types like Map and Set. If you’re already a user, the v4 to v5 transition does require an upgrade guide though.

ini 3.0: An INI File Parser/Serializer — INI is a text format that originated at Microsoft for formatting config files.

Instauto 9.0: An Instagram Bot / Automation Library — Uses Puppeteer to do the hard work. The focus here is on ease of use.

cron-parser 4.3: Node Library for Parsing cron Rules — cron is a commonly used mechanism on Unix-based systems for running recurring tasks and such tasks are defined in a very specific format. This package lets you parse this format for your own ends.

Nightwatch.js 2.1: Automated End-to-End Testing from Node — Write end-to-end tests in Node – uses the W3C WebDriver API to drive browsers. GitHub repo.

The Official MongoDB Node.js Driver v4.5.0 — Supports a comment argument on operations so you can trace things better in Mongo’s logs.

Kafka.js 1.16.0: A Modern Apache Kafka Client — Production ready and supports Kafka 0.10+. (Kafka is a popular open source system for working with stream-processing at scale.)