A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Simon Plenderleith gives a roundup of the new stuff that landed in Node since September 2021. Deep clone values (using structuredClone) Auto cancel async operations Fetch API Import JSON modules Abort API additions readline/promises API Corepack I’m especially excited about native fetch() support making it into Node 17. Note that you must enabled it using …
Interesting take by the folks at nystudio107: instead of installing things such as node locally, why not run it in a container with an alias linked to it? Instead of installing all of the tools & packages you’re used to using, we use Docker images that someone else has created that contain these tools & …
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Zach Leat recently created a cloud function that dynamically generates sparklines. Under the hood sits the the sparkline-svg package to generate the SVG. The datapoints themselves can be passed in via the URL. Image URLs have the formats: /[height]x[width]/[values]/ /[height]x[width]/[values]/[color]/ The code is meant to be deployed as a Netlify Serverless Function. Every Fire needs …
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It’s been a while since I’ve set up a server with Node, but turns out Fastify is preferred over Express nowadays. Fastify is a web framework highly focused on providing the best developer experience with the least overhead and a powerful plugin architecture. It is inspired by Hapi and Express and as far as we …
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With Node 12 and up supporting ES Modules natively and Node 10 — the last version to not support it unflagged — going EOL, it’s time to start migrating your code to ES Modules. Aral Balkan took the time to convert his tool “Place” to embrace them and documented his work: Yesterday, I refactored Place, …
Solid list of tips by the folks over at Snyk: By the time you’re at number 8 your mind may have dwelled, but don’t skip out on that step though! It not only allows you to build smaller images but also prevents you from having unnecessary files (read: security risks) left inside your container. Basically …
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Deno version 1.0 is about to land next week. LogRocket walks us through it from A to Z. Deno 1.0: What you need to know → 💁♂️ Deno is a new take on Node, as if it were designed today, by the original author of Node. Here’s a good introductory video.
deno.town – A web REPL for experimenting with the Deno API
deno.town is a REPL to play with the aforementioned Deno, a new take on Node as if it were designed today. deno.town → ⁉️ If you’re looking for a shorter intro to Deno, this talk by Bert Belder at DotJS has got you covered:
Geoffrey Dhuyvetters from madewithlove on how authors of (open source) JavaScript packages can optimize their builds for tree shaking: How do we create a package that exposes both CommonJS & ES modules while making sure we don’t break cross-platform support? Publishing 2 separate packages is an option (e.g. lodash/lodash-es). But there is a nicer, more …
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