Category: node js

7 ways to improve Node performance

November 25, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

Getting Started with Validation in Node — You’ve got a webapp and you want to validate the data it’s sent, but there are lots of options. Here Simon breaks down one approach using JSON schemas along with Ajv. Simon Plenderleith Another Bug Bites the Dust…

Etsy’s journey to TypeScript

November 19, 2021 By Mark Otto Off

Etsy’s Journey to TypeScript — These sorts of stories always seem to be popular as teams weigh up the best way to progress. Etsy had a lot of JavaScript code but felt some of the problems they were encountering could be solved by TypeScript. This…

A major npm registry vulnerability

November 18, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

GitHub on npm Ecosystem Security (and a Major Bug They’ve Fixed) — GitHub became the custodians of the main npm registry in 2020 when it acquired npm Inc. and in this post they share details on how they’re improving its security. Rather worryingly, they recently identified…

‘Moving more and more into a post-React world.’

November 12, 2021 By Mark Otto Off

‘Rust is the Future of JavaScript Infrastructure’ — It’s an opinion but the growing evidence is compelling. Rust (as well as Go) is now being heavily used to replace parts of the JavaScript tooling ecosystem that might have otherwise been written in JavaScript before (e.g.…

A proposal to make npm safer?

November 11, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

Node-RED in Industrial IoT: A Growing Standard — Node-RED is a very long standing Node.js-based ‘low code’ environment where you wire components together. As explained here, it’s heavily used in IoT scenarios and is even taking on established commercial systems. United Manufacturing Hub QUICK BITS: The…

Angular 13, V8 9.7, and Puppeteer 11

November 5, 2021 By Mark Otto Off

Chrome’s New Feature to Record and Replay User Flows — It’s only a preview feature in Canary builds right now, but Chrome is adding a new Recorder panel to its DevTools which lets you record and replay a string of actions on a page (including…

TypeScript delays ES module support for Node

November 4, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

A Comprehensive Guide to Error Handling in Node — Node offers up more than enough ways for errors to crop up and exceptions to be thrown – this blog post skims through some of the main areas to consider. Ayooluwa Isaiah (Honeybadger) Ready for Worry-Free DNS,…

A quick way to clean up node_modules folders

October 29, 2021 By Mark Otto Off

Next.js 12 Released — The popular Node.js + React development framework takes a big step forward with improvements including beta support for middleware, native ES module support, a Rust-powered compiler for 5x faster builds, and much more. The Vercel Team Shortcut Is Project Management Without the Management…

Node v16 goes LTS

October 28, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

Supercharging Node with Rust — As fast as the V8 team have made JavaScript, it’s still a dynamic language at the end of the day, and there are faster options such as Rust, C or C++ if you need absolute max performance or to integrate…

Gatsby 4 released

October 22, 2021 By Mark Otto Off

What’s New in the Now Fully Released Gatsby 4 — Gatsby is a popular React-based open-source framework and v4 introduces new content rendering methods (such as Deferred Static Generation), React 18 future proofing, new build and deployment architecture, new CMS APIs, and more. Jeff James (Gatsby)…