N-API becomes Node-API

#​389 — May 20, 2021

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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 improved asset management, amongst other things. v4 is now considered a ‘legacy’ release.

Adonis

Node v16.2.0 (Current) Released — One of the smaller minor releases with bug fixes and a few minor tweaks but no significant features as such (unless you want to set process.env.TZ on Windows, say) 🙂

Michaël Zasso

Try Scout’s Leading-Edge Performance Monitoring for Free — Scout APM uses tracing logic that ties bottlenecks to source code so you know the exact line of code causing performance issues in minutes. See for yourself why Scout is a Node developers’s best friend with a free 14-day trial, no credit card needed.

Scout APM sponsor

On Renaming N-API to Node-API — Node-API, formerly N-API, is the API used when building native addons for Node and it has been renamed to avoid potential offence over N-API’s pronunciation.

Node.js

• It was neat to see someone who sells Node.js boilerplate apps on Indie Hackers talking about his business and how it works.

• AWS Lambda is dropping support for Node 10 in August, so Dashbird has put together a guide on upgrading to Node 14+ focused mainly on the improvements since then.

Understanding Async Resources with Async Hooks — “In this article, I will try to demonstrate and explain the life cycle of a typical asynchronous resource with the help of

module.”

Deepal Jayasekara

▶  Learn About Async Iterators with Luciano Mammino — Luciano Mammino co-wrote the book Node.js Design Patterns.

Kelvin Omereshone

Asynchronous APIs with DynamoDB Streams — AWS’s API Gateway can add data directly to a DynamoDB table and this can then be picked up by a Lambda function using DynamoDB streams. But why? It can be a lot faster for the client than calling the Lambda directly.

Vikas Solegaonkar

▶  Building Serverless Workflows in Pipedream — Pipedream is a service for building complex workflows easily by stitching together different steps into a process that can be run by HTTP, schedule, and more.

Raymond Camden

[Guide] The Truth About Developer Productivity Metrics — What you need to know to avoid weaponizing metrics for performance reviews, and use them to accelerate releases instead.

Sleuth sponsor

▶  The Advanced Setup of Node-RED in Easy Steps — Node-RED is a ‘low code’ programming environment built on top of Node that makes it easy to ‘wire up’ event flows in a visual way. It’s super easy to install, but what if you want to customize it for more advanced use cases? Want the next step? Here’s how to use it.

Bleeding Code

The Node.js Application Maintainer Guide — Covers best practices for maintaining a Node.js app, including dependencies, versioning, and architecture generally.

Adrián Estrada

create-node-cli 1.6.0: CLI to Create New Node CLI Apps — If you work with React, you may have tried Create React App which creates a boilerplate React app to let you get coding ASAP – here’s the same idea for a CLI app.

Ahmad Awais

Clinic.js: An Open Source Node.js Performance Profiling Suite — This tool will diagnose issues in Node apps by means of probes used to collect metrics to assess the app and create recommendations. v9.0.0 just dropped.

nearform

Automate Code Standard Enforcement with Lightweight Static Analysis

Semgrep sponsor

Prettier 2.3: The Opinionated Code Formatter — Not a huge release but a notable milestone is official support for formatting HTML templates written with Handlebars.

Georgii Dolzhykov

node-dns: A DNS Server and Client Implementation — Pure JavaScript with no dependencies.

Liu Song

tinyws: Tiny WebSocket Middleware for Node

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geoyaml: Write or Parse GeoJSON as YAML

Lou Huang