Tag: node js

What hides in your node_modules?

March 10, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Node v17.7.0 (Current) Released — Updates to nghttp2 and npm (8.5.2), some new options for net.Socket and net.Server, and Ben Noordhuis (one of the most prolific Node contributors who stepped back as a core committer for reasons in 2013) is officially fully back as a…

Using ‘execa’ to run other processes

March 3, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Running Commands with execa in Node — We’ve linked to Sindre Sorhus’ popular execa process execution library many times over the years, but here’s a thorough tutorial which also shows off the value execa brings over the vanilla child_process. Simon Plenderleith Tired of Egregious Egress?…

Node gains HTTPS module import support

February 24, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Next.js 12.1 Released — The popular React framework introduces a beta version of on-demand incremental static regeneration (ISR), now automatically configures Jest for you, and can create smaller, more efficient ‘standalone’ builds of your app for production deployment. Vercel Senior Backend Developer — Are you looking…

Express 5 now in beta

February 17, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Node v17.5.0 (Current) Released — Sadly this release dropped just hours after last week’s issue of Node Weekly, but this is the first release of Node with native (though currently experimental behind the –experimental-fetch option) Fetch API support (more on what that means here) so…

Writing an SD card driver in TypeScript

February 10, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

MikroORM 5: A TypeScript ORM for Node.js — Based upon the popular ‘Data Mapper’ pattern, MikroORM (homepage) is a popular and powerful Node.js ORM that supports a variety of SQL and NoSQL databases. v5 is a year in the making and boasts improved type safety,…

That’s so fetch

February 3, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

‘How I Reversed a Node.js Malware and Found The Author’ — Someone was sending messages to people on the author’s Discord server encouraging them to download and run a nefarious .exe file.. which turned out to be a packaged up Node.js app. Here’s the rest…

Doing the opposite of Jim Cramer with Node

January 27, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Trilium Notes: A Knowledge Base App Built with Node — A hierarchical note taking app. Built as an Express app but most commonly used on the desktop via an Electron packaged version. It’s been around a few years but continues to see frequent updates and…

Eleventy 1.0

January 20, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Remix vs Next.js — While this is a comparison written by the Remix team, it seems open about its methodology and tries to be fair in its comparison. The comparison (and sometimes implicit criticism) of Jamstack has been a Remix talking point – not entirely…

📦 Broken packages

January 13, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

JavaScript Developer Breaks Two Popular npm Packages — The creator of Faker.js and colors.js, two packages we’ve mentioned quite often, made some unorthodox commits to his projects recently that caused them to either disappear or break in interesting ways which resulted in GitHub suspending his…

Looking back at Node.js in 2021

December 23, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

The Best of Node Weekly in 2021 This is the last issue of the year (we’re back on January 13 as we’re taking a two week break) so we’re taking a look back at some of the most popular links that we’ve shared throughout 2021. There’s…