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September 8, 2022
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Mark Otto
🤖 Rewriting Tests from Cypress to Playwright with AI — Gajus needed to move an entire integration test suite from one framework to another – boring and laborious job, right? Gajus put AI to work, first in the shape of GitHub’s Copilot, but then using…
September 2, 2022
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Mark Otto
12 Useful JavaScript Data Grid Libraries — A rundown of some data grid libraries for providing spreadsheet-esque views over datasets – Zara also shares her recommendations on things to consider when making a choice. Zara Cooper IN BRIEF: DEBUGGING TIP: David Walsh shows off Chrome’s rather…
September 1, 2022
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Mark Otto
Tinybench: A Tiny and Simple Benchmarking Library — No dependencies, but uses whatever precise timing capabilities are available (e.g. process.hrtime). You can then benchmark whatever functions you want, specify how long or how many times to benchmark for, and get a variety of stats in return.…
August 26, 2022
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Mark Otto
If you missed my note two weeks ago, we took last week off, so you didn’t miss any issues 🙂 We’re now back every week until Christmas (121 sleeps to go..)__Peter Cooper, your editor. When Alternative JS Runtimes Grow Up: Deno Has Big Changes Ahead,…
August 25, 2022
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Mark Otto
Popular Node.js Patterns and Tools to Reconsider? — Yoni is well known for his work in cataloging Node best practices but he thinks we should reflect upon entrenched approaches over time. Here he presents nine common approaches to reconsider, including the use of Dotenv, Passport.js,…
August 12, 2022
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Mark Otto
☀️ We’re taking a rare week off next week for a brief summer vacation so there won’t be any issue on August 19 – we’ll be back on August 26, complete with a sun tan wind burn, and all the latest JavaScript news, of course…
August 11, 2022
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Mark Otto
☀️ We’re taking a week off for a brief summer vacation and will be back on August 25, so when you don’t get an issue of Node Weekly next week, it’s our fault, not yours 😉__Peter Cooper, your editor. How To Use Multithreading in Node.js…
August 5, 2022
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Mark Otto
JS1024 2022 Competition Winners — JS1024 is a ‘code golfing’ contest where you get 15 days to create a JavaScript or GLSL program within 1024 bytes. This results in lots of creative ideas, complete with fantastic (non-minified) source to check out. The winning JS entry…
August 4, 2022
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Mark Otto
Introducing the New npm Dependency Selector Syntax — Another week, another new npm command! npm query is a new top-level command (as of npm v8.16.0) that lets you query and filter the dependencies of your project with a CSS-like dependency selector format so you can…
July 29, 2022
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Mark Otto
Roll Your Own JavaScript Runtime — Bun, Rhino, Deno, Node, and now Blueboat.. is creating your own JavaScript runtime environment the new “hello world”? 😆 Not quite, but this is a fun walk through the bare basics of the process, and you’ll have a Rust,…