— zx is a utility that makes it easier to write command line scripts based around Node. This tutorial covers the basics before going on to build a command-line tool that helps bootstrap configuration for new Node projects.
Protocol Imports — If you want to make it really clear that a built-in Node module is being imported (and not something with the same name or that’s in
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Create React App 5.0: The Popular ‘One Command’ React App Builder — Few projects in the React world have been as successful as Create React App which has brought single command app generation to the masses. v5.0 includes fast refresh improvements, support for Tailwind, and a lot of dependency updates including webpack 5, Jest 27 and ESLint 8. You’ll need to be running Node 14+ too.
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Malicious npm Packages Are Now Stealing Discord Tokens — We’ve been hearing this year of compromised npm packages trying to steal people’s crypto wallet keys or to mine cryptocurrency, but JFrog researchers have now found 17 malicious packages trying to get hold of Discord chat account tokens(!)
What’s New in npm 8? — Two months ago we mentioned the launch of npm 8 with the subtitle of ‘but it’s not a huge deal.’ That’s why there weren’t (m)any blog posts about it, but Gabby’s made an attempt to explain what little there was.
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How To Use Postgres with Node on Ubuntu 20.04 — DigitalOcean does a good job of funding the creation of straightforward walkthrough tutorials on various topics, and if you want to write Node code that talks to a Postgres database via the
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package, this is a similar such effort covering every step.
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Got 12.0: A Powerful HTTP Request Library for Node — Got is a popular HTTP request library from Sindre Sorhus (plus many contributors too, of course). v12.0 is the first release in a fair while, it goes pure ESM, adds read timeout support, improves retry options, and includes a lot of bugfixes.
NVM for Windows 1.1.9 Released — A Node.js version manager for Windows users which, despite the name, is a totally different thing to the better known nvm project. v1.1.9 is newsworthy as it’s code signed – thanks to Aaron Yong for sponsoring that.
#553 — October 29, 2024 Read on the Web Transformers.js v3: Now You Can Run Transformers in Node.js — A JavaScript port of Hugging Face’s 1transformers Python library that makes it possible to run natural Read more…
#552 — October 22, 2024 Read on the Web Node v23.0.0 (Current) Released — Say hello to the newest release line of Node.js that gets all the cutting edge features first (Node 22 will soon Read more…
#551 — October 15, 2024 Read on the Web 😅 If you didn’t get Node Weekly last week, don’t panic – no one did! We were taking a scheduled week off, but unfortunately forgot to Read more…
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