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The Advent of Code 2022: 25 Days of Code Challenges — If you have a little time each day to do some programming puzzles, the Advent of Code is always fantastic and now in its eighth year. There’s a sub-Reddit where people share and discuss…
💡 While we like to support new, promising projects, it’s not as if it hasn’t been done before though. AdonisJS and Sails are good options in this space. Node.js Architecture Pitfalls to Avoid — Beware: opinions ahead. It’s a little scattershot but the author, who…
Deno 1.28 Released (Now with 1.3 Million New Modules..?) — Yes, we know Deno isn’t Node (it is an anagram of it, though 😏) but given its shared provenance and now that Deno now officially supports using npm modules in a ‘stable’ way, this is…
Node.js Security Best Practices — A new official document from the Node.js team providing guidelines on securing your Node apps by looking at what the main threats are and how to mitigate them. Node.js Project And.. Node Security Releases: 19.0.1, 18.12.1, 16.18.1 and 14.21.1 — Three security…
Together with Node Security Releases Expected.. Today? — Releases of Node 14.x, 16.x, 18.x and 19.x are expected imminently to address three security vulnerabilities. The good news is when they do appear, they’ll update the post we’re linking to, so by the time you see…
Together with Node 18 Becomes Active LTS with v18.12.0 — Formerly a ‘current’ release getting all the newest features, version 18 is now the active ‘Long Term Support’ release and will remain so until October 2023. Its codename is Hydrogen – quite fitting as the…
Together with Node.js 19 Released As an odd-numbered release, Node 19 will never become an ‘active LTS’ version, but sits as the ‘current’ release that gets all the tastiest new features until early 2023. It then reaches ‘end of life’ on June 1, 2023. “If…
Together with Node Authentication, Simplified — In this article, we lay out a new approach to authentication (plus access control & SSO) in Node.js applications. Userfront 🔐 Node.js Authentication with Twilio Verify — If you’re happy using a third party service, bringing two-factor auth into your…
Together with An Active Typosquatting Campaign Targeting npm Users — Security supply chain company Phylum detected a campaign to ‘typosquat’ against a variety of high profile packages. The idea behind typosquatting is that you claim package names similar to others, such as ‘expresss’ for express…
“Don’t Worry, Nobody is Replacing Node.js” — A bold assertion. Fernando reflects on the growing interest in alternative runtimes like Deno and Bun, but notes none really replace Node.js wholesale in the near future. And even if they did, most of your Node skills would…