‘This Page is Hosted on My Android Phone’ — Since it’s been linked on some pretty big sites already, I don’t feel too guilty about linking it here too 😆 This is a link to a blog being hosted from a $180 Android phone that’s running Node.js and it explains how you can repeat the feat for yourself. (If it is down, the same page is hosted here on a more typical server.)
Pinggy
Deopt Explorer: A VS Code Extension to Inspect V8 Trace Log Info — A thorough introduction to a new tool from Microsoft for performing advanced analysis of data coming from the V8 engine’s internals, including CPU profile data, how inline caches operate, deoptimizations, how functions were run (interpreted or compiled) and more. There’s a lot going on here. If you want to jump straight to the extension, it’s here.
Reducing the Cost of String Serialization in Node’s Core — Is it possible to reduce the cost of string serialization in Node, particularly in the context of URL parsing? Research was done and the answer is.. yes, by quite a lot too. Benchmarks included.
Yagiz Nizipli
IN BRIEF:
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Your Jest Tests Might Be Wrong — Is your Jest test suite failing you? You might not be using the testing framework’s full potential, especially when it comes to preventing state leakage between tests.
Jamie Magee
Regular Expressions in JavaScript — Powerful but often misunderstood, many will benefit from this roundup of the potential regexes offer to JavaScript developers.
equals 2 or how characters like emoji are internally represented.
Manuel Spigolon
Why the JavaScript Ecosystem is Delightfully Weird — There are plenty of examples of how JS is weird but Sam focuses on the why. If you’ve been a JS developer for many years you’ll have seen it go through many phases and morph to fit its environment which has resulted in many oddities.
sqs-consumer: Build Amazon SQS-Based Apps Without Boilerplate — Build SQS-based (Simple Queue Service) applications without the boilerplate. Just define an async function that handles the SQS message processing. If it’s good enough for the BBC..
Expressions into Human Readable Form — The idea is that given something like
1
*/5 * * * *
, it will return “Every 5 minutes”. No dependencies.
Brady Holt
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Jasmine 5.0 – The popular JavaScript testing framework gains support for parallel execution in Node.
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