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Shell-free scripting from Node

#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 $ method feature for writing zx-style scripts with it, making it even more useful for shell scripting style usecases. ehmicky Turbowatch: File Change Detector and

New JavaScript features of the past few years

#629 — March 10, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly JavaScript Features from the Past Few Years — Packed with examples, this post tackles the changes and tweaks to JavaScript and TypeScript over the past several years (some as far back as ES6/ES2015, like tagged template literals). Linus Schlumberger Astro’s 2023 Web Framework Performance Report —

Taking flight with Feathers 5

#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 if you want to spin up a Node CRUD app tied to a database and now it’s “TypeScript all the

Garbage collector experiments

#628 — March 3, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Sandworm Audit: A New JS Auditing Tool — A command-line tool to scan a project and dependencies for vulnerabilities, license issues, and related problems. You get JSON reports, visualizations of dependency trees, and a CSV of all dependencies and license information. Sandworm Experiments with the JavaScript

Playing in the sandbox

#476 — March 2, 2023 Read on the Web zx 7.2: A Tool for Writing Better Shell Scripts — Always a popular tool when we link it! zx is an alternative way to run Node that makes it more useful for shell scripting by bringing along a variety of niceties like process management, argument handling,

ECMAScript 2023 for President

#627 — February 24, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly 🎵 Strudel REPL: Live JavaScript Music in the Browser — This is a lot of fun. It’s a little online sandbox for putting together small musical experiments written in JavaScript. Use the ‘shuffle’ button at the top right until you find something you like

Single executable apps come to Node core

#475 — February 23, 2023 Read on the Web ▶ The State of Node.js Core with Colin Ihrig — Colin sits on the Node.js Technical Steering Committee (TSC) and gives us a 30-minute presentation reviewing what’s going on and some potential upcoming features (including a permissions system, better TypeScript integration, proxy support for fetch and more

JavaScript sans build systems?

#626 — February 17, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Writing JavaScript Without a Build System — Using a variety of build tools for things like bundling and transpiling is reasonably standard in modern JavaScript development, but what if you want to keep things simple? For simple things, it’s not necessary, says Julia. This

Automatic integration tests for Express apps

#474 — February 16, 2023 Read on the Web How To Scale Node Apps with Clustering — Node’s cluster module can be used to run and manage multiple Node instances as a way to distribute workloads. Stanley gives a thorough and practical walkthrough of how to do it and why and when it yields a benefit. Stanley

Bringing JavaScript to WebAssembly

#625 — February 10, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Speeding Up the JS Ecosystem: It’s ESLint’s Turn — Last year we featured an article from the same author about how he was finding, and fixing, low-hanging performance fruit in popular JavaScript projects. He’s back, and he’s found a lot of potential for savings