Automatic integration tests for Express apps

How To Scale Node Apps with Clustering — Node’s cluster module can be used to run and manage multiple Node instances as a way to distribute workloads. Stanley gives a thorough and practical walkthrough of how to do it and why and when it yields a benefit.

Stanley Ulili

Those Node.js Security Releases are.. Today — Last week we teased the release of Node’s latest security releases on February 14 but they’ve been delayed by two days to.. today. At the time of sending, we have no further info, but they should be available from this page.. very soon.

Michael Dawson (Node.js Project)

Using RxDB as a Database in Node.js — RxDB is an offline-first, reactive database. While it was initially focused at frontend use cases, it can be used as an embedded, local database inside a Node app too.

RxDB Team

binary-parser: Declarative Parser Builder for Binary Data — Chain together methods to define binary structures which can then be used against real data. For example, a IP packet header parser might begin: .endianness("big")​.bit4("version")​.bit4("headerLength")​.uint8("tos").. and the rest.

Keichi Takahashi

Execa 7.0: A Better child_process — If you need to run external processes from a Node app, this gives you more than child_process does, including a larger maximum buffer size, cleaning up of processes and output, more descriptive errors, and more.

Sindre Sorhus

Devalue: Like JSON.stringify, But.. — “Gets the job done when JSON.stringify can’t.” Namely, it can handle cyclical and repeated references, regular expressions, Map and Set, custom types, and more.

Rich Harris