#424 — February 10, 2022 Read on the Web Node Weekly Pintora: An Extensible Text-to-Diagram Rendering Library — A similar idea to the well established Mermaid.js, but with a different attitude to extensibility as well as no requirement for a headless browser server-side. The introduction docs have both visual and Read more…
#423 — February 3, 2022 Read on the Web Node Weekly The Fetch API Comes to Node Core (and Why You Should Care) — Support for the Fetch API (as commonly used browser-side for fetching resources) has been merged into Node.js and will be available behind a 1‑‑experimental‑fetch flag until, Read more…
With Deno 1.18, an upgrade to the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime positioned as a Node.js alternative, the Deno project’s developers have completed the Web Cryptography API. Deno’s Web Crypto API was finalized after a six-month effort. Deno now passes 98.1% of the web platform test suite for the API, according to release Read more…
#422 — January 27, 2022 Read on the Web Node Weekly Trilium Notes: A Knowledge Base App Build with Node — A hierarchical note taking app. Built as an Express app but is most commonly used on the desktop via an Electron packaged version. It’s been around a few years Read more…
#421 — January 20, 2022 Read on the Web Node Weekly 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 Read more…
#420 — January 13, 2022 Read on the Web Node Weekly 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 Read more…
Build processes can be quite sophisticated for enterprise applications, but even simple and early-stage projects can benefit from automated build pipelines. This article describes a quick-to-deploy system for running an automated build, test, and deploy pipeline with Node.js, Jenkins, and Git. You’ll need Git and Node/NPM installed on your system Read more…
#419 — December 23, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly 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 Read more…
#418 — December 16, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly How To Write Shell Scripts in Node with Google’s 1zx — zx is a utility that makes it easier to write command line scripts based around Node. This tutorial covers the basics before going on to build a command-line Read more…
Developers of Deno, the TypeScript/JavaScript runtime positioned as an alternative to Node.js, have joined the standards body overseeing development of the JavaScript standard. In a December 13 blog post on the Deno company website, engineer Luca Casonato noted the company is now a member of ECMA International, the organization overseeing Read more…
