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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#513 — December 5, 2023 Read on the Web Node v21.3.0 and v21.4.0 (Current) Released — We’ve mentioned it in passing, but Node has gained a new 1--disable-warning option to disable specific warnings (as opposed Read more…
Deno Land, the developers of the Deno TypeScript/JavaScript runtime, have introduced Deno Cron, a feature the company describes as an easy way to create scheduled jobs. Announced November 29 and available behind the 1--unstable flag Read more…
#512 — November 28, 2023 Read on the Web Node.js Download Statistics — Node.js TSC member Matteo has put together a handy site that visualizes the publicly available Node.js download statistics, partly as a way Read more…
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