It’s Time to Take the Node.js 2021 User Survey — The Node.js team has announced the opening of the 2021 Node.js user survey and you can take it here – the deadline is February 15 but we’ll do another reminder before then. Don’t forget to mention us when they ask where you heard about the survey from 😄 The results from last time (PDF) (in 2018) taught us all kinds of things, and it’ll be interesting to see the shifts since then.
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parse-xml 3.0: A Fast, Compliant XML Parser — The goal with this project was to be fast, robust with good error handling, and to have no native dependencies. v3.0.0, which has just dropped, includes a brand new parser and supports Node 12+.
Ryan Grove
Track Redis Memory Use with RedisGreen — RedisGreen monitors the largest keys in your database over time, and builds a visual guide of which keys use the most memory. With SSL encryption and online upgrades to support your app from dev to prod.
as a first step to aligning with the Blob Web API and there’s now a
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base64url
Buffer encoding option.
Ruy Adorno
Deno 1.7 Released — Node’s younger cousin comes boasting new features and improvements. A big update is that
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deno compile
(which lets you compile complete JavaScript apps to a single executable) is more efficient with support for cross compilation and ~60% reduced compiled size. → Via our Deno newsletter.
Bartek Iwańczuk and Luca Casonato
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napi-nim: How to Write Native Node Extensions in Nim — Is C too verbose, C++ too complicated, and you’re just not feeling Rust? Nim is a relatively friendly compiled systems language you can use to build Node extensions instead, as seen here, though it’s still early days for this project.
Andi Rosca
A Flappy Bird Clone using Raylib — It’s not often we see native games written in Node so if it’s something you fancy trying, this code may intrigue you. It leans on Raylib, a C-based library for building basic games and graphical experiments.
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