~nodeweekly | Issue 556 - Using Node to get ChatGPT on the phone (12)

AWS Lambda Turns Ten: Looking Back and Looking Ahead — AWS Lambda, Amazon’s cloud function service, essentially launched the term ‘serverless’ and had a big impact on the use of Node.js in the cloud with Node v0.10 being the first and only runtime supported (till Java was added a year later).

Val Town: A Social Way to Write and Deploy TypeScript — Staying on a serverless-ish theme, “If GitHub Gists Could Run, and AWS Lambda Were Fun” is a fitting description for this online platform where you write short functions (the so-called ‘val’s) and they get run in V8 isolates. You can connect them together, schedule them, serve them up over HTTP, and more.

Memetria K/V: High-Performance Key-Value Hosting — Boost your Node.js apps with Memetria K/V, providing portable, easy-to-use hosting for Redis OSS and Valkey. Scale your applications with ease and achieve high performance. Includes detailed analytics and large key memory tracking.

Node v18.20.5 (LTS) Released — Node v18 remains in its ‘Maintenance LTS’ phase (until May 2025) and while you can’t expect anything big, this release updates a lot of key dependencies and marks import attributes and JSON module support as stable.

Talk to ChatGPT via a Phone Call — It requires some third party services like Twilio, AssemblyAI and, of course, OpenAI’s GPT 4, but you can tie all of these together with Node for a pretty neat demo.

npmpackage.info: Detailed Package Info on a Single Page — Give this online tool the name of an npm package and you get a quick ‘dashboard’ style view of the project’s main statistics, covering areas like quality scores, commits, open issues, releases, bundle size, and more.

Explore Sentry Launch Week: New Products and Community Highlights — Join us for daily video drops on YouTube at 9am PT, and on Discord to chat live with the engineers building Sentry.

💬 Discordeno v19: A Powerful Discord API Library — A long standing way to work with, and build bots for, the popular Discord chat system. v19 is a big update with breaking changes. GitHub repo.

SVG To Font 6.1: Read SVG Icons and Output a Font File — Both a CLI tool and Node library that can read in a set of SVG documents and output WOFF2, WOFF, EOT, TTF and SVG fonts. Useful for generating a Web font from a set of icons, perhaps, as in this demo.

wacat 1.2: Tests Your Webapp Against 'Cat Chaos' — Uses a virtual ‘cat walking across your keyboard’ approach to tormenting apps with random clicks and form submissions. v1.2 adds LLM integration to detect and handle error states along the way.

Node-OracleDB 6.7: Oracle's Official Database Driver for Node — I’m not an Oracle Database user myself, but I like the amount of effort Oracle puts into maintaining their Node.js driver. v6.7 adds OpenTelemetry support and settable V$ session attributes.

⚙️  DBngin: Simple Postgres, MySQL and Redis on Mac and Windows — It’s not Node-specific, but if you’d like to spin up different versions of various common databases using a simple UI, this could fit the bill.