Exploring Node.js Async Hooks — Hooks aren’t just for React 😉 Async hooks provide a way to track asynchronous resources and Diogo shows off some examples of where they can fit into your code.

Diogo Souza

Node v14.13.0 (Current) Released — A release that looks basic on the surface, with libuv updated to v1.40.0 and support added for an export patterns scheme with wildcards (e.g. */*.js), but a super neat feature is support for named imports/exports with CommonJS modules!

Myles Borins

The Diagnose: How Support Works at AppSignal — Developer experience is really important to us, as AppSignal started as a way to scratch our itch. We also put a lot of effort in providing you with a first-class support. In fact, our developers are the ones answering all of your questions.

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SuperTest 5.0: Super-Agent Driven Library for Testing Node HTTP Servers — A very long standing and mature library for making assertions about HTTP servers using a fluent API. For example, things like: request(app).get('/user').expect('Content-Type', /json/)

Sloth

V8 Release 8.6 — The latest version of the V8 JavaScript engine is now in beta until its eventual release with Chrome 86 and a future version of Node. The codebase is now more respectful, there are speedups in Number.prototype.toString, and a JavaScript fuzzer called js-fuzzer has been open sourced.

Ingvar Stepanyan (V8 Team)

Fastify 3.5.0: The Fast and Low Overhead Web Framework — Matteo Collina spoke about how to get started with Fastify and why you might use it instead of Express in this podcast episode last month.

Fastify

Node.js Developer at X-Team (Remote) — Join the most energizing community for developers and work on projects for Riot Games, FOX, Sony, Coinbase, and more.

X-Team

Find a Job Through Vettery — Create a profile on Vettery to connect with hiring managers at startups and Fortune 500 companies. It's free for job-seekers.

Vettery

5 TILs about Node Fundamentals from the Node Design Patterns Book — Notes made during a read through of Node.js Design Patterns from Packt.

Shawn 'swyx' Wang

Building a Node App with CockroachDB and Sequelize — CockroachDB is an open source distributed SQL database aimed at resilience and its creators consider the Node ORM Sequelize to have ‘beta level’ support for it.

Cockroach Labs

Scout APM: Pinpoint & Fix Performance Issues Fast. Start Now for Free — Scout's intuitive UI streamlines real-time performance insight so you can spend less time debugging, more time building.

Scout APM sponsor

Getting Started with Eleventy, the Static Site Generator — 11ty (a.k.a. Eleventy) is a Node-powered static site generator that may interest you if you want to keep things really simple.

Craig Buckler

How to Fix Postgres Performance Issues with PG Extras — An introduction to a tool you can use to spot Postgres related issues in Node, Elixir and Ruby contexts. node-postgres-extras is the repo you want.

Paweł Urbanek

twitter-api-client: Node Client Library for the Twitter API — An unofficial library but using the official Twitter API, of course. The benefits here? It’s promise-based and fully typed.

Simon LH

DashDash: A Light and Explicit CLI Option Parsing Library — I like the creator’s justification: “The others I’ve tried are one of too loosey goosey (not explicit), too big/too many deps, or ill specified. YMMV.”

Trent Mick

npm v7.0.0 Beta 13 Released — Adds support for --fetch-timeout to customize the timeout for fetching resources (by default, supposedly zero in npm 6 but to be 5 minutes in npm 7).

The npm Blog

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pm2 4.5 Released: The Node Production Process Manager — A very mature and widely used process manager that includes a load balancer for keeping Node apps alive forever – pm2 continues to remain a fundamental part of the Node ecosystem.

Alexandre Strzelewicz

node-poppler: Asynchronous Wrapper for the Poppler PDF Rendering Library — Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on xpdf. Windows and macOS binaries come with this repo but Linux users will have a little more work to do.

Frazer Smith