A little look back..

#​395 — July 1, 2021 Read on the Web ✍️ Several readers have written in asking if we can do more frequent recaps of popular things we’ve covered recently. We do an annual roundup as the final issue of each year – here’s 2020’s – but since we’re now exactly Read more…

Node 16.4.0 released

#​394 — June 24, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly AdminJS 5.0: An Admin Panel for Node Apps — Formerly known as AdminBro, this is an ‘automatic’ admin interface you introduce to existing apps, wire up to your ODM/ORM, and off you go. You can see a live demo here. Read more…

A better HTTP client for Node

#​393 — June 17, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly A Visual Guide to Node.js Streams — Streams aren’t conceptually too difficult to grasp but some visuals fit well and certainly help. Deepal Jayasekara Undici 4.0: An HTTP Client, Written from Scratch for Node — The goal of this project Read more…

Google’s Squoosh comes to Node

#​392 — June 10, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Introducing libSquoosh: Experimental Image Optimization from Node — Squoosh is an image optimization web app originally built by a team at Google in 2018 and since then it has been updated and offered in CLI form. Now, Surma has unveiled Read more…

How to CRUD with Node.js and MongoDB

MongoDB was one of the first NoSQL data stores, and it is the most popular NoSQL data store today. The Node.js JavaScript runtime continues to hold a dominate place in back-end development. Together they make a highly flexible and dynamic technology stack. As you’ll see, Node.js and MongoDB allow you Read more…

N-API becomes Node-API

#​389 — May 20, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Adonis v5 Now Out of Preview plus a New Site and Docs — Adonis is a full featured Node web framework which compares itself to Rails, Laravel and Django in terms of scope. v5 brings easier social authentication support and Read more…