The Best Starting Word in WORDLE? — WORDLE is an online word game that’s a bit like ‘Mastermind’ but with 5 letter words. And, of course, if you’re a developer, why not use code to analyze an approach to playing it? Amusingly, I used the tip on today’s game and the final 5 letter word described my approach..
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Strapi v4: An Open Source Node.js Headless CMS — Strapi has been around a while and has done a good job building a community around itself. A big new version is out with a new UI, Plugin API, Query Engine and more, plus a focus on refactoring the core to make it easier to extend and twist to your own ends. Here’s the getting started tutorial.
Taking part in this year’s Advent of Code? AoC Runner is a Node utility to help you create and run your solutions more quickly if you want to get on the leaderboard.
Node v17.2.0 (Current) Released — It’s V8 9.6 time for Node, although it’s a pretty minor change along with everything else in this release – more of a gentle step forward than a leap.
and this tool will show you a tree-like view with similar (I’m not so sure about ‘better’ though..) options for each dependency listed. A mixed bag, but an interesting idea if you want a fresh perspective.
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24 Days From Node.js to Rust: Day 1 — Like many, JavaScript developer Jarrod is taking a look at Rust, and he’s starting to blog some notes about the process looking through a Node.js lens.
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Building a ‘Now Playing’ Display with Node-RED — Rui wanted to use a Raspberry Pi and LCD screen on his desk to show a ‘now playing’ screen for his media center. Python made up most of the code but Node’s Node-RED low-code system provided the glue.
gradient-string: Beautiful Color Gradients in Terminal Output — Finding that merely colorizing your program’s text output is too old school? Now you can step up to gradients instead. Don’t ask why, but it does look nice and I’ve seen a few CLI tools use it to wow users.
node-qrcode 1.5.0: Generate QR Codes from Node — QR codes are 2D barcodes that can store arbitrary data (like URLs, say). They can be scanned by mobile devices easily so you might want to generate them within an app.
#479 — March 23, 2023 Read on the Web 🔒 npm Granular Access Tokens Now Generally Available — The granular access token feature on the npm registry is now generally available, allowing you to restrict Read more…
#478 — March 16, 2023 Read on the Web Shell-Free Scripts with Execa 7.1 — Execa is a popular process execution library for Node and the latest version includes an interesting 1$ method feature for Read more…
#477 — March 9, 2023 Read on the Web Feathers 5: The API and Real-Time App Framework — Feathers isn’t as well known as Nest or Fastify, say, but it’s a powerful and mature option Read more…
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