A new way to query your dependencies.

August 4, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Node.js Weekly

Introducing the New npm Dependency Selector Syntax — Another week, another new npm command! npm query is a new top-level command (as of npm v8.16.0) that lets you query and filter the dependencies of your project with a CSS-like dependency selector format so you can ask “new, complex questions about [..] dependencies, their relationships & associative metadata.”

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🛠 Code & Tools

pg-boss 8.0: Postgres + Node.js Job Queueing System — A job queue for background processing and reliable asynchronous execution. It uses Postgres specific features (like SKIP LOCKED) to guarantee safety. v8 makes Node 14 the minimum supported version and enables reuse of existing DB connections on certain operations.

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create-dmg 5.4 – Create good-looking DMGs for macOS apps.
nodejs-firestore 6.0 – Node.js client for Google Cloud Firestore.
Stripe Node 10.0 – Node.js library for Stripe’s API.
mikro-orm 5.3 – TypeScript ORM for Node based on Data Mapper.
node-json-db 2.0 – Simple file-based JSON ‘database’ library.
cron-parser 4.6 – Library for parsing cron schedules.