Deno 1.14, the latest update to the TypeScript/JavaScript runtime and rival to Node.js, features a number of new additions to the Web Crypto API. The Web Crypto API is a standard JavaScript API for performing cryptographic operations such as hashing, signature generation, and encryption and decryption. Published September 14, Deno Read more…
#405 — September 16, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Tasuku (タスク): A Minimal Task Runner for Node — Tasuku, which is simply Japanese for ‘task’, provides a clean way to break up processes into small tasks which can then be run in the right order with progress displayed Read more…
#404 — September 9, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Node v16.9.0 (Current) Released with Experimental Package Manager Manager — A big addition this time out is Corepack, a new experimental tool for managing package managers directly within the Node distribution itself (as already used to occur with 1npm Read more…
#403 — September 2, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Deploying a Cloud Spanner-Based Node App — Cloud Spanner is an ‘unlimited scale’ managed relational database service Google offers (and which was spun out of an internal database system Google used for numerous services). This post covers the practicalities Read more…
Deno 1.13, released on August 10 as an upgrade to the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime, stabilizes the native HTTP server API, enabling Deno to serve multiple variants of HTTP traffic out of the box. With the API having reached stable status, Deno now can serve HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 traffic. The system exposes Read more…
#402 — August 26, 2021 Read on the Web 📋 In case you missed our notice a couple of weeks ago, we took a week off last week but are now back every week till Christmas 🙂 Don’t forget you can always hit reply to recommend things for us to Read more…
The integrated development environment (IDE) remains the centerpiece of developer tools. Online IDEs have ridden the wave of cloud-based tools, growing in power over the last few years. CodeSandbox is one of the more popular options in that space, and its usage has been increasing recently. CodeSandbox is gaining popularity Read more…
Cloud-based authentication and authorization platforms—sometimes known as IDaaS, or identity as a service — are an expanding area of cloud tooling, and it’s easy to see why. App security is difficult and error-prone, and virtually every project requires it. The ability to offload much of the work to a dedicated Read more…
#401 — August 12, 2021 Read on the Web 📋 Node Weekly is taking a little summer vacation next week so we’ll be back for the next time on Thursday, August 26. See you then! 🙂__Peter Cooper, editor Node Weekly August 2021 Security Releases: Node 16.6.2, 14.17.5 and 12.22.5 — Read more…
#400 — August 5, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly 40+ Node.js Integration Test Best Practices — Component and integration tests are increasingly popular testing techniques for backends. This repository digs into a variety of quick-fire patterns and practices for creating good component tests. There’s also a demo app Read more…
