Single executable apps come to Node core
February 23, 2023 |
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▶ The State of Node.js Core with Colin Ihrig — Colin sits on the Node.js Technical Steering Committee (TSC) and gives us a 30-minute presentation reviewing what’s going on and some potential upcoming features (including a permissions system, better TypeScript integration, proxy support for This Dot Media |
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Node 18.4.2 (LTS) has also been released with npm 9.5 and updates to both V8 and the Undici HTTP client. |
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Node v19.7.0’s Single Executable Applications Support — I told a half truth above, there are three neat things in Node 19.7. The third is experimental and significant enough to require its own item. With the right incantations, you can package a Node app along with the Node executable itself for easier distribution. I struggled to get it working and the resulting executable will be over 80MB in size, but it’s early days 🙂 Node.js Documentation |
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▶ The NPM Library Creation Speedrun — Social media’s most famous TypeScript developer right now takes just 90 minutes to build, CI, and publish a complete npm package. You could do it faster, of course, but he takes a thorough approach with testing, TypeScript, writing a README and actually building something useful. (Note: He actually starts around the 17-minute mark in the video.) Matt Pocock |
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Prefer ▶️ a 3-minute primer to publishing an npm package with the latest tools? Matt’s got you covered there, too. |
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???? Letting Node Play Your Games |
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A Node Script That Plays ‘Hay Day’ — Hay Day is a mobile ‘virtual farming’ game and like many such games, it seems to involve a lot of grinding to progress. Sam has used Node to bring together some OCR, screenshotting, and calling out to AutoHotKey to play the more boring parts of the game – techniques you might be find useful to try elsewhere, perhaps. There are ▶️ some clips of it in action on Twitch. Sam Neisewander |
