zx v7.0: Better Script Writing with Node.js — No, not movie scripts, but shell scripts and the like. If writing JavaScript instead of wrestling with bash, Perl or Python sounds better to you, zx can make your life easier. v7.0 is fully rewritten in TypeScript, has an echo function for printing the output of other scripts, within for creating new async contexts, and a new interactive REPL mode (behind -i).
Google
Node.js 16 to Meet an Early Demise (in 2023) — The Node.js team is bringing forward the ‘end of life’ date of Node.js 16 by seven months due to OpenSSL 1.1.1, a fundamental dependency, reaching its own end of support in September 2023. Don’t panic. You’ve got over a year to get to grips with Node.js 18.
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New Fullstack TypeScript Course — Build a full-stack app that generates TypeScript code from data layer to front-end all from a GraphQL schema.
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I have no affiliation with them, but based on recent experiences, give fly.io a try if you want to rapidly get a Node app running on the Web. Fabulous DX and a good free tier. Interesting modern alternative to Heroku. (Render and Railway are also good, but I’ve spent less time with them so far.)
Talking of Heroku, you can learn about their new Heroku 22 stack which is based on Ubuntu 22.04. Node.js 14.x, 16.x, and 17.x are supported out of the box.
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🛠 Code & Tools
BRIEF RELEASES:
NodeBB 2.2 – Node-based forum software. ws 8.8 – WebSocket client and server library. Jasmine 2.4 – Testing framework. MikroORM 5.2 – Data Mapper ORM for TypeScript. pnpm 7.2.1 – Smaller, faster package manager. nodejs-datastore 7.0 – Official client for Google Cloud Datastore.
