RIP Node 15, we hardly knew ye..

#​391 — June 3, 2021

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Node Weekly

Electron 13.0 Released — Maybe 13 is unlucky for some, but lucky for you if you have cross-platform desktop apps to build with Node! Version 13 gets you onto Chromium 91 (reading files from the clipboard seems to be a new possibility..), Node 14.16, and V8 9.1.

Electron.js Team

Node v16.3.0 (Current) Released — A pretty minor update this time. A variety of bug fixes, updates to dependencies and tools (e.g. npm), part of which means

commands now have workspaces support.

Danielle Adams (Node.js Project)

Couchbase Is the SQL-Friendly, NoSQL JSON Document Database — Couchbase has integrations available for Spring, Node, ASP.NET, and more. Read and write your data with a fusion of NoSQL flexibility and SQL familiarity. Check out developer.couchbase.com today for sample apps and tutorials.

Couchbase sponsor

Writing Custom REPLs in Node — If you just run a plain

at the terminal, you get Node’s REPL environment.. but what if you want to create a REPL within a context of your own creation? Some basic guidance here.

Nate Anderson

QUICK BITS:

• Node 15, which was always intended to be a short lived branch, went EOL (End of Life) earlier this week on June 1. RIP Node 15, we hardly knew ye..

• Prepare for a Node near you to get even faster as V8 introduces a new non-optimizing compiler (called Sparkplug) into its pipeline.

• Node has turned 12 years old. Hurrah. 669 releases later, thanks to the 2988 contributors who have made it what it is.

• Stack Overflow, the world’s greatest copy and paste site for developers, has been acquired for $1.8bn.

Head-to-Head: Monolith vs. Microservices — Learn how you can leverage microservices to modernize your IT portfolio with a progressive approach.

OutSystems sponsor

On the Diverse And Fantastical Shapes of Testing — Does your testing follow a pyramid, a honeycomb, or a trophy? How many unit tests vs integration vs other? Is mocking and stubbing OK? The testing world is certainly full of opinions and shapes.

Martin Fowler

▶  Using Async, Await, and Promises in Express

Beyond Code Workshop

How We Debugged And Fixed

on AWS Lambda — When running a Node based function, the author’s team kept running into this error oriented around the use of file descriptors. Luckily, the fix was pretty simple.

Michael Bahr

How to Create a Monorepo for Multiple Node Packages — A step-by-step guide on how to use Lerna (a tool that optimizes the workflow around managing multi-package repositories with git and npm) to manage, and publish, two packages under the same monorepo.

Tom Zach

▶  How to Build a Realtime Chat App in 10 Minutes — The code is, unsurprisingly, very simple, although this is achieved by leaning on Pusher for all the hard backend work.

Scalable Scripts

How to Reduce RAM Consumption When Using

Amir Blum

NocoDB: An Open Source Airtable-a-Like — Airtable is a popular, though commercial, spreadsheet-database hybrid offered as a service. We use it here at Cooperpress to help put the newsletters together! This is a flexible and surprisingly good looking open source pastiche.

nocodb team

awesome-nodejs-security: A Curated List of Node.js Security Resources — Includes libraries like express-enforces-ssl and stories of incidents like the left-pad incident.

Liran Tal

Why Tracing Might Replace (Almost) All Logging

Lightstep sponsor

Execa 5.1: A Better

— A way to run external processes from your Node app. Has a Promise-based interface, better support for Windows, allows up to a 100MB max buffer (vs the 200KB

uses). v5.1 adds an

property to the results.

Sindre Sorhus

Forever 4.0: Ensure a Script Runs Continuously — .. or forever, if you will.. heat death of the universe be darned.

forever

ssh2 v1: Pure JavaScript SSH2 Client and Server Modules for Node

Brian White