~nodeweekly | Bookmarks (177)

Automate Embedding Creation and Syncing in Postgres with pgai Vectorizer — 🚀 pgai Vectorizer automates embedding creation and syncing in Postgres with one SQL command — keeps embeddings updated, no tools needed.

Move Fast and Fix Things with Honeybadger — Honeybadger transforms your logs into rich events and helps you fix issues before your users know what happened. Get notified instantly and find the root cause faster with your application errors and logs in one place. Try our free plan!

📈 NPM Chart: Search for a Package to See Its Download Stats Over Time — The tool allows you to customize the data by selecting a color theme, monthly or weekly view, and a start date. You can download as SVG or PNG or share as a direct link. The charts are attractive and well suited to dropping into a blog post, README, or presentation.

Building My Resume in HTML with Eleventy — Eleventy (a.k.a. 11ty) is a popular Node.js-based static site generator and gives you a very familiar feeling developer experience.

Revamping a Five-Year Old Node.js Project — It’s a tale as old as time. Your company has built a fast and reliable app which has done its job so well that it hasn’t been touched in years and suddenly you’re asked to rewrite it.

Reduce Your Apache Kafka Costs by 80+% — Kafka with no local disks or interzone fees, zero ops auto-scaling and in your cloud with no cross-account access.

Faker 9.2: Generate Massive Amounts of Fake Data — Names, bios, addresses, zip codes, dates, monetary amounts, transactions and, as of v9.2, pet names and roman numerals! I love the guided DevTools console based demo you can try – an idea other projects should consider. GitHub repo.

📂 Yauzl: Yet Another Un-ZIP Library for Node — One of those libraries you might not have heard of but which is getting 15 million downloads a week due to being depended upon by popular projects. Yauzl keeps it simple and just provides safe, async unzipping of ZIP archives. Yazl is its counterpart for making ZIPs.

Edge.js: Run .NET and Node.js Code In-Process — Call .NET functions from Node.js and Node.js functions from .NET and Edge.js takes care of marshalling the data properly. Works with .NET Core on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Fraction.js: Library for Working with Rational Numbers — The imprecise representation of floating point numbers can lead to all sorts of problems, so if you’re working with fractions at all, you might want a little more precision, which Fraction.js offers.

💬 The Lounge: A Modern, Self Hosted Web-Based IRC Client — It’s been a few years since we linked to this, so we felt it was about time. It’s a self-hostable Node-powered webapp that acts as a client to IRC chat servers (potentially handy to roll your own self-hosted community chat or support channel).

🐘 pg-dump-parser: Parses Postgres Dump Files into Arrays of Schema Objects — Takes a Postgres database dump, splits it up, and turns the table and view structures into a format you can more easily work on from code (or just use as a reference or check into version control).

Why Code Security Matters - Even in Hardened Environments — A nicely diagrammed deep dive (and it really is deep) into a technique that allows malicious parties to turn a file write vulnerability in a Node app into a remote code execution exploit even when the file system is mounted read-only.

Wasmer Adds Node.js and Bun Support — Wasmer is a fast, Rust-powered WebAssembly runtime and as of Wasmer 5.0, it has (experimental) V8 backend support, meaning you can try all sorts of curious things like, say, running Clang or Python inside Node.

Node v23.1.0 (Current) Released — Node 22 takes a breather, but Node 23 picks up the ‘Current’ baton and will get all the juiciest new features until Node 24 arrives in April/May 2025. In v23.1, JSON modules and import attributes are now stable, the MockTimers test runner API is stable, and Buffer objects created from resizable ArrayBuffers will now update their size properly.

Understanding npm audit and Fixing Vulnerabilities — npm audit checks your project’s dependencies for security issues by comparing them to a known vulnerability database.

Bootstrapping CRUD with Pongo — Pongo is a package that uses Postgres as a database but offers a MongoDB style, document-oriented API.

Run GitHub Actions Up to 2x Faster at Half the Cost — Blacksmith runs GitHub Actions up to 2x faster at half the cost. Trusted by 100+ companies like Ashby and Slope.

Tinybench 3.0: A Tiny, Simple Benchmarking Library — Uses whatever precise timing capabilities are available (e.g. process.hrtime or peformance.now). 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. GitHub repo.

parse-xml 4.2: A Fast, Compliant XML Parser — Its goal is to be fast, robust with good error handling, and to have no native dependencies. v4.2 boasts being up to 28% faster than previous versions.

Dependency Cruiser 16.5: A Way to Visualize Dependencies — If you want a look at the output, there’s a whole page of graphs for popular, real world projects including Chalk, Yarn, and React.

Wireit: Extends npm/Yarn Scripts to Make Them Smarter, More Efficient — Working with npm run, Wireit extends your scripts with features like result caching, parallelization, and watching/re-running on changes. There’s a VS Code extension to help you write such enhanced scripts too.

Node v22.11.0 'Jod' Released; Becomes Active LTS Release — With this release, Node 22 flips from being the ‘Current’ cutting edge release to being a dependable release with the all-important LTS (Long Term Support) designation. It is, however, broadly the same as Node v22.10.

Master Performance and Speed Up Your Site — This detailed video course shares the fundamentals of web performance, covering key Core Web Vitals metrics such as Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), and Interaction to Next Paint (INP). You'll learn how to best use Lighthouse, WebPageTest and other tools in order to make your site lightning.