A new way to query your dependencies.

#​449 — August 4, 2022

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Introducing the New npm Dependency Selector Syntax — Another week, another new

command!

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.”

The GitHub Blog

Electron 20 Released: The Cross Platform Desktop App Platform — Mostly a typical release. Chromium gets bumped to v104, V8 to 10.4, and Node to 16.15.0. Windows gains an ‘immersive dark mode’ and it’s now possible for windows to ‘float’ over full-screen apps panel-style. It also introduces the V8 ‘Memory Cage’ which affects native modules: “Attempting to wrap external memory with an ArrayBuffer will crash at runtime in Electron 20+.”

Charles Kerr

Control Your GraphQL API with GraphQL Hive — Prevent breaking changes, monitor performance of your GraphQL API, and manage your API gateway (Federation, Stitching) with the Schema Registry. GraphQL Hive is a SAAS solution that is also 100% open source and can be self-hosted. Sign up for free.

The Guild sponsor

The Node Ecosystem (Still) Has Tooling Problems — A very brief story-meets-opinion piece that’s mostly preaching to the choir. Yes, there are problems and a surfeit of options, but at the same time, there’s nearly always a solution too. Of course, Hacker News managed to string it out into a lengthy discussion 🙂

Max Leiter

▶  Now He Made a Multiplayer Game in Microsoft Word.. — I continue to watch this chap’s videos with a simultaneous mixture of respect and disorientation.

SethEric

A DIY

Cache for Docker in Your CI — May want to be careful around building deps in one Linux distro and copying to another though..

Reme Le Hane

Making a Functional Authentication and Authorization System using JWTs

Folgoni and Folgoni Borsa

Scraping Google Maps Reviews with Node

Mikhail Zub

colorgrad: High-Performance, Rust-Powered Color Gradient Library — Happy in Node or the browser and uses Rust compiled to WebAssembly behind the scenes – a very modern, en vogue approach (and this is a nice small codebase with which to learn the technique, too). Live demo.

Nor Khasyatillah

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

) to guarantee safety. v8 makes Node 14 the minimum supported version and enables reuse of existing DB connections on certain operations.

Tim Jones

Real-Time Visibility into the Performance of Your Jest Tests

Buildkite Test Analytics sponsor

Nativefier: Make Any Web Page a Desktop App — A basic Node.js-powered tool for creating a desktop ‘app’ for any Web site using Electron as the webview. For Windows, macOS and Linux.

Goh Jia Hao

Awesome SaaS Boilerplates: Boilerplate Apps for Various Stacks — It’s not Node specific, but there are plenty of Node-based options on here, as well as for PHP, Python, and Ruby.

Alexey Smirnov

Debug Node Apps Without Stopping Them in Prod. Try Rookout Free Today

Rookout sponsor

QUICK RELEASES:

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.