Category: node js

The seven figure JavaScript app

February 11, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

🥊  Move Over JavaScript? How Some Backend Languages are Coming to the Front-End — You might think this is about using WebAssembly to run Python in the browser or something, but no. It’s about the growing popularity of maintaining a WebSocket connection to a backend…

Writing an SD card driver in TypeScript

February 10, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

MikroORM 5: A TypeScript ORM for Node.js — Based upon the popular ‘Data Mapper’ pattern, MikroORM (homepage) is a popular and powerful Node.js ORM that supports a variety of SQL and NoSQL databases. v5 is a year in the making and boasts improved type safety,…

Get decorating with Babel 7.17.0

February 4, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Writing a Printer Driver in JavaScript — “Writing a printer driver in JavaScript sounds ridiculous,” starts the author, and while the definition of ‘driver’ is arguable here (it’s more a filter?), this is nonetheless an interesting story and solution to the author’s problem. Dan Pastusek Babel…

That’s so fetch

February 3, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

‘How I Reversed a Node.js Malware and Found The Author’ — Someone was sending messages to people on the author’s Discord server encouraging them to download and run a nefarious .exe file.. which turned out to be a packaged up Node.js app. Here’s the rest…

Etsy moved from React to Preact

January 28, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Take the State of JavaScript 2022 Survey — Now several years in, the popular State of JavaScript survey returns for a joint 2021/22 run and, as ever, seeks to establish what libraries and frameworks developers are excited about. It’s not a perfect approach, but the…

Doing the opposite of Jim Cramer with Node

January 27, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Trilium Notes: A Knowledge Base App Built with Node — A hierarchical note taking app. Built as an Express app but most commonly used on the desktop via an Electron packaged version. It’s been around a few years but continues to see frequent updates and…

NaNNaNNaNNaN Batman

January 21, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

⁉️ If the subject of this issue has got you confused, it’s a reference to the infamous Wat video of 2012 which we mention a couple of times in the issue today 🙂__Peter Cooper, your editor TypeScript Features to Avoid? — Remember Gary Bernardt’s Wat…

Eleventy 1.0

January 20, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Remix vs Next.js — While this is a comparison written by the Remix team, it seems open about its methodology and tries to be fair in its comparison. The comparison (and sometimes implicit criticism) of Jamstack has been a Remix talking point – not entirely…

Parcel.js 2.2 and Eleventy 1.0

January 14, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Retool Is the Fast Way to Build Internal Tools — Visually design apps that interface with any database or API. Switch to code nearly anywhere to customize how your apps look and work. With Retool, you ship more apps and move your business forward—all in…

📦 Broken packages

January 13, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

JavaScript Developer Breaks Two Popular npm Packages — The creator of Faker.js and colors.js, two packages we’ve mentioned quite often, made some unorthodox commits to his projects recently that caused them to either disappear or break in interesting ways which resulted in GitHub suspending his…