Package with 3M Weekly Downloads Had a Severe Vulnerability — It’s not every day a publication as mainstream as Ars Technica covers Node news, but security researcher Ax Sharma has put together a good story about a significant vulnerability in
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Ars Technica
Fauna: A Modern Serverless Data API for Node.js Apps — Fauna combines the schema flexibility that’s provided by document databases with ACID compliant transactions. Quickly integrate Fauna into your applications with our Data API and leave scaling, sharding and all other operations to Fauna.
Trace-Based Testing with OpenTelemetry: Meet Malabi — An introduction to Malabi, a new OpenTelemetry-based test framework that lets you do what they’re calling trace-based testing for verifying interconnectivity issues between distributed services.
Michael Haberman
Why Electron Apps Are Fine — While Niels agrees with many common criticisms of Electron, his users don’t care, and he says you shouldn’t care either.
Niels Leenheer
🛠 Code & Tools
bundle: A Quick npm Package Size Checker — Enter a package name, then hit the “run” button and this tool will give you the minified, bundled, and gzipped size of the package.
function in JavaScript to perform more complex renames.
Lloyd Brookes
is-reachable: Check If a Server Is Reachable — Another library from Sindre’s immense catalogue. This library simply does a TCP handshake with a specified target to see if a server is at least ‘reachable.’ Before that, maybe you can use is-online to work out if you’re even online in the first place? 😉
timefind: Search a Web Site’s History — A Node-based tool (which you can use from the terminal) for quickly flipping through the Web Archive’s snapshots.
is a commonly used mechanism on Unix-based systems for running recurring tasks and such tasks are defined in a very specific format. This package lets you parse this format for your own ends.
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