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Introducing Mongoose 6.0.0 — MongoDB user? You’ll want this. And if you’re an existing Mongoose user, you’ll want the 5.x to 6.x migration guide too. Amazingly it’s been over three years since Mongoose 5, so it was about time, and a lot of work has gone into this release 🙂
Valeri Karpov
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zx 3: A Tool for Writing Better Shell Scripts — Rather than using something like
to throw together a quick script,
provides a variety of niceties to do the same with the JavaScript you know and love. A lot of work seems to be going into it right now with 3.0 and 3.1 dropping within days of each other. Here’s a basic usage example if you’re intrigued as to what it enables.
Google
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The npm Registry is Deprecating TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 — From October, all connections to npm web sites and the registry itself must use TLS 1.2 or higher. This shouldn’t affect many of you as apparently 99% of traffic is already meeting this requirement, but if you’re running some ancient Node binaries or devices doing odd things, you might want to check in on them during the test runs scheduled in this post.
GitHub
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An Introduction to
— jq is a fast, C-powered command-line utility to parse, sort, filter, and do just about anything with JSON data. Adam’s post is now the place to go to to remember
syntax instead of Googling it.
Adam Gordon Bell
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NAN to Node-API Migration: A Short Story — A creator of several native add-ons for Node reflects on the shift from NAN to Node-API (formerly N-API) – this is specifically for native add-on creators only as it digs into the weeds a bit.
Santiago Gimeno
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ls-lint, a fast file and directory name linter written in Node, has passed 500k npm downloads. Congratulations.
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