#375 — February 11, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly How to Generate Thumbnails using AWS Lambda from Videos Uploaded to S3 — A perfect pairing of serverless and Node. This thorough walkthrough covers using Node to tie together processing new videos uploaded to an S3 bucket, running FFmpeg Read more…
Notable changes deps: upgrade npm to 6.14.11 (Ruy Adorno) #37173 Commits [ 1e8a4e560ea ] – async_hooks: fix leak in AsyncLocalStorage exit (Stephen Belanger) #35779 [ 1427968d266 ] – deps: upgrade npm to 6.14.11 (Ruy Adorno) #37173 [ 1cd9a8106be ] – http: do not loop over prototype in Agent (Michaël Zasso) Read more…
Notable changes The update to npm 6.14.11 has been relanded so that npm correctly reports its version. Commits [ 1953a85035d ] – crypto: fix crash when calling digest after piping (Tobias Nießen) #28251 [ 1fe2c98003e ] – deps: upgrade npm to 6.14.11 (Ruy Adorno) #37173 [ 17b7fb43b8a ] – Revert Read more…
Notable Changes deps: upgrade npm to 6.14.11 (Ruy Adorno) #37173 V8: backport dfcf1e86fac0 (Michaël Zasso) #37245 Note: Node.js is not believed to be vulnerable to CVE-2021-21148. stream,zlib: do not use _stream_* anymore (Matteo Collina) #36618 Commits [ 120b1e6c802 ] – deps: V8: backport dfcf1e86fac0 (Michaël Zasso) #37245 [ 1408c7a65f3 ] Read more…
Scalability, latency, and throughput are key performance indicators for web servers. Keeping the latency low and the throughput high while scaling up and out is not easy. Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment that achieves low latency and high throughput by taking a “non-blocking” approach to serving requests. In other Read more…
Deno, a JavaScript/TypeScript runtime promising stronger security and a superior developer experience to Node.js, reached its 1.0 release status on May 13, 2020. Created by Ryan Dahl, who also created Node.js, Deno was designed to address a number of Node’s shortcomings, particularly security. (Deno is an anagram of Node.) The project became Read more…
The arrival of Deno, an alternative to the Node.js JavaScript runtime, has inspired open source developers to create Nest.land, a decentralized module registry for Deno that uses blockchain technology to store modules permanently. With Nest.land, a distributed blockchain infrastructure is used to store the data, which is replicated “forever” via Read more…
Deno, an alternative JavaScript runtime to Node.js, has been upgraded with capabilities including a WebSocket API and an early version of an automatic restart capability. Deno 1.4, released September 13, is being called the largest feature release yet. Highlights include a web standard WebSocket API, for communicating with remote servers Read more…
Modern application development depends on automated testing, using test frameworks to ensure that code is ready to go into application packages and out to end-users. To get the most from testing, tests are written before code and can be integrated into source control and CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous deployment) pipelines. Tests Read more…
NPM 7.0.0, an upgrade to the JavaScript package manager, is due to be released with Node.js 15 this week, highlighted by Workspaces. Workspaces is a long-requested feature that gives NPM a set of features to manage multiple packages from within a singular, top-level root package. Driving the addition of this capability Read more…
