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July 16, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Node.js Weekly

Work Progresses on node:sqlite — Last week, we featured efforts to include SQLite and a client library into the Node distribution. Things continue to progress quickly, with the feature proposed for inclusion in the forthcoming Node v22.5. You can see how it’ll work in this CodeSandbox example.

Node.js GitHub Repo

WorkOS: The Modern Identity Platform for B2B SaaS — Start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. WorkOS provides flexible, easy-to-use APIs to integrate SSO, SCIM, and RBAC in minutes. It’s used by hundreds of high-growth startups including Perplexity, Vercel, Drata, & Webflow.

WorkOS

⚠️ In related news, Socket reports an unverified npm account takeover vulnerability was offered for sale on a dark web forum.

IN BRIEF:

  • Deno 1.45 is out and continues to improve its Node.js compatibility story significantly. It’s also gained support for workspaces and monorepos.

  • The Node subreddit got its teeth into an age old question: MongoDB versus Postgres?

  • The npm registry has begun removing READMEs from package version metadata to reduce the size of package packuments.

  • Tabular-JSON is a proposed superset of JSON that adds support for CSV-like tables and optional quotes.

A Developer’s Review of a Snapdragon X Laptop — The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x, specifically. It’s a neat developer-focused look at a new option on the market. It’s not all about Node but he did try to get Node working under Windows on ARM and ran into some teething problems.

Wesley Moore

Bring StackBlitz to Work — In our upcoming livestream, we’ll cover the best ways to build and share prototypes and quickly reproduce bugs.

StackBlitz

🛠 Code & Tools

Micro Agent: An AI Agent That Writes Code for You — Sure, you can ask ChatGPT, Copilot or Claude to write code for you, but you know how that can sometimes turn out.. Is there a better way? Micro Agent is a Node-based tool that takes the approach of writing a test case first and then iterates upon a solution until the tests pass.

Builder․io

💡 Steve Sewell and Vishwas Gopinath have blogged more about how it works here.

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