Web Scraping via JS Runtime Heap Snapshots — When official APIs don’t offer all of the access users require (or don’t exist at all) scraping can become a less than ideal necessity. Puppeteer or Playwright make controlling a headless browser easy, but finding the data you want can still be complex.. but what if you could just pluck data objects from a page out of the heap? Puppeteer Heap Snapshot is the end result of this experiment.
Adrian Cooney
Node v18.2.0 (Current) Released — Don’t get too excited – this is a modest release. npm gets updated to v8.9.0, undici to v5.2.0, and some OpenSSL related issues are addressed. If you really want some new features, you can now use a method to close all connections on
Making TypeScript ‘Stick’ — Test your knowledge through quizzes, challenges, and even a TypeScript gameshow in this new course by Mike North!
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Node.js 16.x Runtime Now Available in AWS Lambda — Node.js was the first runtime offered when AWS’s industry defining serverless platform launched eight years ago, and now you can get up and running on the latest active LTS release with all its improvements.
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Star History is a fun online tool for plotting charts of the changing number of stars that a GitHub repo has.
Deploying Node-RED to Google App Engine — Node-RED is a Node-powered low-code event-driven programming environment most commonly associated with IoT and stringing together hardware devices in various ways. But you can deploy it in the cloud, too, to create your own automation system for other things.
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#541 — July 23, 2024 Read on the Web Node.js v22.5.0 (Current) Released – But Don’t Install It! — A notable release for three reasons: first, the WebSocket feature in 1node:http is now exposed. Second, remember how Read more…
#540 — July 16, 2024 Read on the Web A Guide to Reading and Writing Node.js Streams — A post from the creator of Fastify (and a Node.js TSC member) is always a treat. Matteo Read more…
#539 — July 9, 2024 Read on the Web Node to Get SQLite Built-In? — Deno has its own built in key/value store powered by SQLite – perhaps Node could gain similar powers by this Read more…
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