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#​509 — November 7, 2023

Read on the Web

Awesome Node Security: A Curated List of Node Security Resources — Includes links to libraries like Helmet (which just had a new release a few hours ago), educational resources, tools, and even stories of incidents like the left-pad incident (which, somehow, was a whole seven years ago!)

Liran Tal

🖼  image-dimensions: Get the Dimensions of Images — Sindre’s latest creation is a simple but comprehensive one. A way to get the size (as width and height in pixels) for JPEG, PNG, APNG, and GIFs in any modern JavaScript environment. He seeks PRs to add JPEG XL, HEIC, WebP support if you have experience in those areas.

Sindre Sorhus

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Building AI Apps with LangChain and Node.js — Discover the basics of building a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)-powered application using the LangChain framework (a popular framework for working with LLMs available in both Python and Node).

Julián Duque

IN BRIEF:

• Deno 1.38 has been released and takes Node.js compatibility even further by allowing the use of

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  npm

  (or

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  pnpm

  ) to install packages.

• In other ‘runtimes that aren’t Node’ news, Bun v1.0.10 has just landed too, with a 14% faster

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  node:http

  (a compatible wrapper around

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  Bun.serve

  ).

• Node.js v20.x is now the default version on Heroku.

• If you’re a VS Code user, get excited: support for moving editors into floating windows is on the way.

• If you have any interest in making a Node app work as a Windows service, Jakob Wärnhjelm’s experimentation may save you a lot of time.

• 🇪🇺 NodeConf EU is taking place right now in Ireland. I’m seeing a lot of love for the talks so far – fingers crossed we get to share some videos soon.

• Node hasn’t got its new mascot yet, but the Eleventy static site generator does.

How to Build a Server-Side React App Using Vite and Express — A demo of server-side rendering and server-side data fetching without using a full-on framework — showing what React-powered frameworks actually do.

Paul Scanlon

Best Practices for Bootstrapping a Node App Configuration

Liran Tal

🛠 Code & Tools

Is Text or Binary? 7.0 — It first tries to determine from a filename if the contents of the file are likely to be binary or text. Failing that, it then looks at the actual data to figure it out.

Bevry

Super Expressive: Build Regexes in a Fluent, ‘Natural Language’ Style — A library for building regular expressions using an ‘almost natural language’ approach. It feels a little too verbose for me, but it’s certainly readable. There’s also an online playground where you can experiment.

Francis Stokes

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log-update 6.0: Logging by Overwriting the Previous Output — Imagine a

that just overwrites itself on the same line each time. Perhaps for rendering progress bars, animations, etc.

Sindre Sorhus

node-datachannel 0.5: libdatachannel Bindings for Node —

is a standalone C++17-based implementation of various WebRTC standards, as well as WebSockets, for use on POSIX platforms.

Murat Doğan

• Google Cloud SQL Node.js Connector 1.1 – Work with Cloud SQL instances from Node.

• setup-node 4.0 – Set up a GitHub Actions workflow with a specific Node version.

• unix-permissions 6.0 – Helper library for working with POSIX file permissions.

• node-llama-cpp 2.8 – Run AI models locally with Node.js

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  llama.cpp

   bindings.

• temporary-path 1.0 – Get a random temporary path / directory.

• Nightwatch.js 3.3 – Integrated end-to-end testing framework.

• file-type 18.6 – Detect the file type of a buffer.