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July 7, 2022 |
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Executing Shell Commands from Node.js — Dr. Axel’s journey through the backrooms of Node.js continues with another in-depth guide – this time tackling running other programs from our Node apps. The focus is on the built-in Dr. Axel Rauschmayer |
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Bun: An Interesting New JavaScript Runtime — A challenger appears! Bun is a new JavaScript runtime built not around V8 (like Node.js or Deno are) but WebKit/Apple’s JavaScriptCore. It includes its own bundler, transpiler, task runner, and npm client, but most significantly boasts huge performance improvements over existing options and supports a lot of Node and Web APIs already. Want a quick tour and explanation? ▶️ This video by Theo of ping.gg does a pretty good job. One to watch. Jarred Sumner |
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Ways to Estimate npm Package Market Share — Industry analysis is far from an exact science, but it’s interesting to see the techniques and data sources you can use to estimate things like relative market share of various packages. Mark Erikson |
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▶ Playing Pokemon Together with Node — For some reason, Confreaks (well known for their top notch conference recordings) has been uploading talks from older conferences this week. This one from JSConf US 2019 tickled us as a bit of fun. Samuel Agnew |
🛠 Code & Tools
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string-strip-html: Strip HTML Tags from Strings — Lots of examples to see here. Quite a lot of functionality – it’s not just a regex and replace. You can strip HTML and contents, keep the contents, and even tackle widow words. Roy Revelt |
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