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Develop & Deploy Nodejs Application in Docker | Nodejs App in Docker Container Explained

Full Video Link https://youtu.be/Bwly_YJvHtQ Hello friends, new #video on #deploying #running #nodejs #application in #docker #container #tutorial for #api #developer #programmers with #examples is published on #codeonedigest #youtube channe

In this video we will learn how to develop nodejs application and deploy it in docker container. I will show do you build nodejs helloworld application and run it in docker container.   You will be able to create nodejs helloworld application & run it in docker container in 10 mins. ** Important Nodejs Packages or Modules ** Express – Express is a node js web application framework that…

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This advanced course is designed not just to teach you the MERN stack, but to make you job-ready with real-world projects, performance optimization skills, and industry exposure.

🎓 What You’ll Learn at Techmindz

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✅ Advanced React with Hooks, Redux, and performance tuning

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✅ Deployment using Docker, Git, and cloud platforms

✅ Real-time web apps and advanced project architecture

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Docker: How to get a Node.js application into a Docker Container

Introduction

The goal of this article is to show you an example of dockerizing a Node js application. Where you can have a basic understanding of Docker. It will help you to set up the Node js application and docker installation.

What is Docker?

Docker is an open-source platform for developing, shipping, and running applications. Docker enables you to separate your applications from your infrastructure so you can deliver software quickly. With Docker, you can manage your infrastructure in the same ways you manage your applications. By taking advantage of Docker’s methodologies for shipping, testing, and deploying code quickly, you can significantly reduce the delay between writing code and running it in production.

Why Docker?

Developing apps today requires so much more than writing code. Multiple languages, frameworks, architectures, and discontinuous interfaces between tools for each lifecycle stage create enormous complexity. Docker simplifies and accelerates your workflow while giving developers the freedom to innovate with their choice of tools. The day which comes in every developer’s life that application is working on our system, but It’s not working on the client’s system. To prevent this type of situation, we use Docker.

How can we use Docker with Nodejs?

Before starting, I am assuming that you have a working Docker installation and a basic understanding of how a Node.js application is structured.

In the first part of this video, we will create a simple web application in Node.js, then we will build a Docker image for that application, and lastly, we will instantiate a container from that image.

Setup Nodejs Server

Run command npm init and add the required details for your project

Install express in the project using npm I express

Then, create a server.js file that defines a web app using the Express.js framework:

Now we can test the node server, and start the application using node server.js. Let’s try to hit the URL http://localhost:8080/ and check the response

In the next steps, we’ll look at how you can run this app inside a Docker container using the official Docker image. First, you’ll need to create a docker file, Where we are going to add some commands.

#Dockerfile

Create a docker file in the root directory of the project using the touch command.

Edit the docker file using any editor and write the below instructions into the docker file.

Initially, we need to pick a node image that will run on a container, and here I am using the latest stable version of the node.

Next, we need to create a directory for the application. Here we can add all the project files.

This image comes with Node.js and NPM already installed, so the next thing we need to do is install your app dependencies using the npm install. So I am going to copy the package. JSON file.

To bundle your app’s source code inside the Docker image, use the COPY instruction:

Your app binds to port 8080 so you’ll use the EXPOSE instruction to have it mapped by the docker daemon:

Lastly, we are going to run the application using the CMD, which will execute node server.js

To see the final outputs please click here

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What it takes to maintain a large open source project

#475 — February 14, 2020

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An oddly quiet week in terms of big, timely news, but yet again there's so much generally going on that I think we've got a good issue here :-) Till next week!

JavaScript Weekly

FullCalendar: A Full Sized JavaScript Calendar Control — An interesting option if you want a Google Calendar style control for your own apps. Has connectors for React, Vue and Angular. The base version is MIT licensed, but there’s a ‘premium’ version too.

Adam Shaw

How to Make a WebGL-Powered US Counties Map with D3 and Three.js — Creating a simple SVG-based map is one thing, but if you want the best performance, leaning on WebGL and your GPU is a good option. This tutorial covers how to approach moving from SVG to WebGL by way of Three.js.

Mika Iriarte

New: Our 'Most Loved' JavaScript Course 🧡 Gets Updated — Take your JavaScript to the next level. Gain an understanding of callbacks, higher order functions, closure, asynchronous and object-oriented JavaScript.

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On the Maintenance of Large Open-Source Projects — A written-up group chat with former Node core team member Bert Belder (of libuv fame) and Leaflet creator Vladimir Agafonkin about what it takes to maintain large open source projects.

Anne-Laure Civeyrac

Tiny Helpers: Single Purpose Online Tools for Web Developers — A growing collection of single-purpose online tools aimed at developers of all types. Covers things like base64 conversion, color management, favicon generators, exploring JavaScript ASTs, key codes..

Stefan Judis

7 (Possibly) Good Reasons Not to Use TypeScript — Hang on.. did you read that headline right? Why not to use TypeScript? Yes, despite all the buzz around TypeScript, you don’t have to use it and there might be good reasons not to (although the reasons presented are highly opinionated and you’re free to disagree too).

Michael Krasnov

Quick bytes:

There's a sneaky bug in Chrome 80 that affects Array#reduce and it has broken people's Angular apps. Here's a potential quick fix.

If you want to go to VueConf in Austin in a few weeks, I'm told this is the last week you can get tickets.

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📘 Articles & Tutorials

Why JavaScript is Eating HTML — The idea of JavaScript and HTML remaining separate and never the twain shall meet is now decidedly old-school and HTML-in-JS (a la JSX) is definitely A Thing™. Here’s a tour of all the parts involved.

Mike Turley

Building a Continuous Integration and Deployment Pipeline Using Docker — A really sweet, well paced tutorial that almost anyone would be able to follow to set up a basic CI/CD process for a Node app.

Tania Rascia

A Pool Table-Style 'Bouncing Balls' Simulation in Plain JS — It’s mostly code but included in tutorials as it’s designed to be a learning experience. Here’s a demo of the end result.

Meto Trajkovski

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How to Publish an Updated Version of an npm Package — If you release your own npm packages, or if you’ve inherited packages from your team, this is a nice guide that covers many of the challenges with getting a new version out.

Scott Vandehey

70 JavaScript Interview Questions — You’re never going to get a list like this that’s perfect but it’s a pretty solid list of the sorts of questions (and answers) you could get thrown at an interview, so if you’re in that position..

Mark Abeto

4 Methods to Search Through Arrays — includes, find, indexOf, and filter.

Stephen Hartfield

▶  Fast by Default: Algorithmic Performance Optimization in Practice — A talk from dotJS 2019.

Vladimir Agafonkin

ForwardJS Ottawa (May 26-29) Speakers Announced — Topics include React/Redux, TypeScript, containers, design systems, static sites, scaling teams and monorepos. Join us.

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Building Bridges with Other Departments in Developer Relations — If you've been in the JavaScript world a while, you might be familiar with Estelle Weyl and her insights will interest you if a career in developer relations has ever intrigued you.

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How To Create Maps with React and Leaflet

Shajia Abidi

Building a 'Grouper' Component for Svelte — Mat Ryer shows how you can build a Grouper component in Svelte to neatly group up lists into meaningful sections.

Mat Ryer

🔧 Code & Tools

Debug Visualizer: Visualize Data While Debugging in VS Code — An interesting looking VS Code extension that lets you visualize the result of an repeatedly evaluated expression. An intriguing idea, though I think you’d need to fiddle a bit to get the results you want.

Henning Dieterichs

plink-plonk.js: Listen to Web Pages As Their DOM Changes — This is really cool. Run this code at a console on a ‘busy’ Web page with lots of DOM changes and updates and you’ll be able to ‘hear’ them taking place.

Tom Hicks

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Type Route: A Flexible, Type-Safe Routing Library — A flexible routing library with TypeScript support, designed with React integration in mind (indeed, it’s used in React Router), but can be used with any framework (Vue, Angular, etc).

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Ionic 5 Released: A Popular Webapp + Native Framework — Ionic’s goal is to get you an app you can put on an app store and the Web with a single shared code base, yet with adaptive styling to look native in each case. It was originally focused on Angular but now has an official React integration.

Brandy Carney

esbuild: An Extremely Fast JavaScript Bundler and Minifier, But... — An experiment in proving that tools for bundling JavaScript can actually be very fast.. though in this case by implementing one in Go ;-)

Evan Wallace

LegraJS: Render Lego Brick Graphics to a Canvas — A small library for drawing LEGO style brick shapes on to a canvas.

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Build, deploy, and scale an E-Commerce app using Microservices built with Node, React, Docker and Kubernetes

What you’ll learn

Architect large, scalable apps using a collection of microservices

Deploy a multi-service app to the cloud with Docker and Kubernetes

Solve concurrency issues in a distributed systems environment

Leverage your Javascript skills to build a complex web app

Build a Server-Side Rendered React App to render data from your microservices

Understand how enterprise companies design their infrastructure

Share reusable code between multiple Express servers using custom NPM packages

Write comprehensive tests to ensure each service works as designed

Communicate data between services using a lightning-fast event bus

Write nothing but production-level code. No cutting corners!

Requirements

Basic knowledge of Javascript and Express is required

Knowledge of React is good, but not needed

You must be familiar and comfortable with the command line

Description

Event-Based Architecture? Covered! Server side rendering with React? Yep.  Scalable, production-ready code? Its here!

Microservices are the number one solution for building and scaling out apps that are intended to grow.  Just one little issue: there are few resources online that delve into the most complex and nasty issues around them!  I built this course to fix that.  This course tackles every major issues around microservices head on. From challenges with data replication to confusing unordered event streams, every major challenge of building microservices is covered.

Beyond focusing on the basics of microservices, this course is a perfect introduction to the world of full-stack development.  You will work all the way from the frontend, assembling a React app using Hooks, to the backend, including database design and deployment strategies.  Every step along the way is covered in tremendous detail, with ample diagrams to ensure every step is crystal clear.

Many other resources show only the easiest, simplest apps written with microservices.  This course does the opposite: we focus on the most challenging aspects of microservices, challenges that you will likely encounter every single day.  You will see these difficulties first hand, then solve them with easy-to-understand strategies.

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How This Course Works

This course doesn’t focus on using an off-the-shelf microservices framework. Many exist, but they hide the inner workings and challenges of microservices away from you. Instead, we will be using a minimal number of libraries, and write as much custom code as possible. This will expose you to challenging problems and clever solutions when handling subjects like async events!

What Technology You’ll Use

Because we are building a full stack application, we will use a variety of technologies. On the frontend, we’ll use React and Next JS to present content to users. Each service is created using Node and Express. Data for each service is held in either a Mongo database or Redis. The entire app is deployed and runs in Docker containers executed in a Kubernetes cluster. Finally, almost all of the code in this course is written with Typescript.

This is a scary list of technologies! Not familiar with some of these? No problem! The course is built assuming that you only know the basics of Javascript and Express. No other knowledge is needed – you will learn everything you need to know.

What You’ll Be Able to Do

By the time you complete this course, you will be able to:

Architect a multi-service application

Determine whether your app is a good fit for a microservices approach

Understand and solve the challenges in async, event-based communication between services

Use Docker and Kubernetes to deploy a multi-service app to any cloud provider

Organize and enhance the reusability of code in large projects

What You’ll Learn

An absolute incredible number of topics are covered in this course.  Here is a partial list of what you’ll do:

Practice patterns to create scalable microservices for a variety of app domains

Build a Server-Side-Rendered React app using Hooks and Next JS

Write a custom implementation of an event bus

Optionally, run a development environment through a cloud provider

Guarantee consistently structured responses from your different API’s

See best practices in communication between different services

Configure and scale your services using Kubernetes Deployments

Document and enforce structure constraints on events shared across microservices

Limit access to your APIs using JWT-based authentication

And much more!

This is the course I wish I had when I was learning microservices. A course that focuses on the hardest parts, gives clear explanations, and discusses the pros and cons of different design options. Sign up today and join me in mastering microservices!

Who this course is for:

Javascript engineers looking to build large, scalable applications

This course is *not* designed for sysadmins focused on infrastructure deployment

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How To Setup MERN Stack On Docker?

How To Setup MERN Stack On Docker?

Recently I have been exploring docker and docker-compose and I majorly work on MERN stack for my web apps hence this blog.

This blog will give you steps how you can setup a fully connected MERN application with ReactJS front end, Express JS as backend, Mongo as database and Node as server.

Lets get started.

Pre Requisites

You already have installed docker, docker-compose

You have an editor of…

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The Node.js Community was amazing in 2017! Here's the proof:

Let me just start by stating this:

2017 was a great year for the Node.js Community!

Our favorite platform has finally matured to be widely adopted in the enterprise, also, a lot of great features have been merged into the core, like async/await & http2, just to mention a few.

The world runs on node ✨🐢🚀✨ #NodeInteractive http://pic.twitter.com/5PwDC2w1mE

— Franziska Hinkelmann (@fhinkel) October 4, 2017

Not only the developers who contribute to Node make this platform so great, but those who create learning materials around it were also exceptional.

In our final article of 2017, we collected a bunch of longreads which were created by the Node community. We used data from Reddit, Hacker News, Twitter & Medium to search for the most read, most shared & liked stuff out there. We intentionally omitted articles written by RisingStack (except 1, couldn't resist) - if you're interested in those, please visit our top15 of 2017 post!

I'm sure we left a bunch of amazing articles out - so if you'd like to get attention to an exceptional one you read, please let us know in the comments section.

Also, keep in mind that this post is not a classic "best of" list, just a collection that shows how amazing the Node community was in 2017! I figured that a big shoutout to the developers who constantly advocate & teach Node would be a great way to say goodbye to this year.

So, here come the proof I promised in the title:

1. We have insanely useful community curated lists:

If you'd like to gain useful knowledge quickly, you can count on the Node community. These lists were created in 2017, and contain so much best practices & shortcuts that you can definitely level up your skills by going through them.

The largest Node.JS best practices list is curated from the top ranked articles and always updated.

Awesome Node.js is an extensive list of delightful Node packages & resources.

The Modern JS Cheatsheet contains knwledge needed to build modern projects.

These lists have over 300 contributors & gained around 50K stars on GitHub!

Also, we recommend to check out these articles written by Yoni Goldberg & Azat Mardan which will help you to become a better developer:

Node.JS production best practices

10 Node.js Best Practices: Enlightenment from the Node Gurus

2. There are actually insightful Case Studies available!

One of the best articles on using Node.js was written by Scott Nonnenberg in April. The author summarized his Node experiences from the past 5 years, discussing basic concepts, architectural issues, testing, the Node ecosystem & the reason why you shouldn't use New Relic.

"I’ve already shared a few stories, but this time I wanted to focus on the ones I learned the hard way. Bugs, challenges, surprises, and the lessons you can apply to your own projects!" - Scott

..

Also, did you know that Node.js Helps NASA to Keep Astronauts Safe? It's hard to come up with something cooler than that.

NASA choose Node.js for the following reasons:

The relative ease of developing data transfer applications with JavaScript, and the familiarity across the organization with the programming language, which keeps development time and costs low.

Node.js’ asynchronous event loop for I/O operations makes it the perfect solution for a cloudbased database system that sees queries from dozens of users who need data immediately.

The Node.js package manager, npm, pairs incredibly well with Docker to create a microservices architecture that allows each API, function and application to operate smoothly and independently.

To learn more, read the full case study!

Also, shoutout to the Node Foundation who started to assemble and distribute these pretty interesting use-case whitepapers on a regular basis!

3. Node.js Authentication & Security was well covered in 2017:

When it comes to building Node.js apps (or any app..) security is crucial to get right. This is the reason why "Your Node.js authentication tutorial is (probably) wrong" written by micaksica got so much attention on HackerNoon.

tl;dr: The author went on a search of Node.js/Express.js authentication tutorials. All of them were incomplete or made a security mistake in some way that can potentially hurt new users. His post explores some common authentication pitfalls, how to avoid them, and what to do to help yourself when your tutorials don’t help you anymore.

If you plan on reading only one security related article (..but why would you do that?!), this is definitely one of the best ones!

..

Also, we recommend to check out the Damn Vulnerable NodeJS Application github page, which aims to demonstrate the OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities and guides you on fixing and avoiding these vulnerabilities.

..

Other great articles which were receiving a lot of praise were Securing Node.js RESTful APIs with JSON Web Tokens by Adnan Rahic, and Two-Factor Authentication with Node.js from David Walsh.

4. API development with Node.js has been made even more easy:

One of the main strengths of Node.js is that you can build REST APIs with it in a very efficient way! There are a lot of articles covering that topic, but these were definitely the most popular ones:

RESTful API design with Node.js walks beginners through the whole process in a very thorough, easy to understand way.

Build a Node.js API in Under 30 Minutes achieves the same result, but it uses ES6 as well.

10 Best Practices for Writing Node.js REST APIs (written by us) goes a little further and includes topics like naming your routes, authentication, black-box testing & using proper cache headers for these resources.

5. We're constantly looking under the hood of Node.js.

Luckily, the Node/JS community delivers when you want to go deeper, in fact there were so many interesting deep-dives that it was really hard to pick out the best ones, but one can try! These articles are really insightful:

Understanding Node.js Event-Driven Architecture

What you should know to really understand the Node.js Event Loop

Node.js Streams: Everything you need to know

How JavaScript works: inside the V8 engine + 5 tips on how to write optimized code

ES8 was Released and here are its Main New Features

6 Reasons Why JavaScript’s Async/Await Blows Promises Away (Tutorial)

What were the best articles that peeked under the hood of JS/Node in your opinion? Share them in the comments!

6. Awesome new Tools were made in 2017:

Two of the most hyped tools of the year were Prettier & Fastify!

In case you don't know, prettier is a JavaScript formatter that works by compiling your code to an AST, and then pretty-printing the AST.

The result is good-looking code that is completely consistent no matter who wrote it. This solves the problem of programmers spending a lot of time manually moving around code in their editor and arguing about styles.

Fastify was introduced by Matteo Collina, Node.js core technical commitee member during Node Interactive 2017 in Vancouver.

Fastify is a new web framework inspired by Hapi, Restify and Express. Fastify is built as a general-purpose web framework, but it shines when building extremely fast HTTP APIs that use JSON as the data format.

..just to mention a few.

7. There are Amazing Crash Courses Available for Free

If you'd like to start learning Node, you can count on the commmunity to deliver free, high-quality resources that can speed up your journey!

One particular author - Adnan Rahić - received a huge amount of praise for releasing crash courses for different topics on Medium. Here they are:

A crash course on testing with Node.js

A crash course on Serverless with Node.js

We hope Adnan will continue this series and create crash courses on other areas of Node as well!

8. Miscallaneus Topics are Covered as Well

What do we mean under miscallaneus topics? Well, those are topics that go beyond the "traditional" use cases of Node.js, where the authors describe something interesting & fun they built with it.

For example there were exceptional articles released that used the OpenCV library for either face recognition or just regular object recognition.

Chatbots were a hype topic too, and there was no shortage of blogposts describing how to build them using different languages.

Building A Simple AI Chatbot With Web Speech API And Node.js was one of the most praised articles. In this post Tomomi Imura walked us through building a chat-bot which can be controlled by voice. Yep, it's pretty cool.

We also recommend to check out Developing A Chatbot Using Microsoft's Bot Framework, LUIS And Node.js too, which is the first part of a series dealing with the topic.

What other fun projects did you see? Add them to the comments section!

9. The community can attend great conferences, like Node Interactive!

Node Interactive Vancouver was a major event which provided great opportunities for it's attendees to meet with fellow developers & learn a lot about their favorite subject.

Fortunately every prezentation is available on YouTube, so you can get up-to-date even if you couldn't participate this year (just like us.)

The 10 most watched right now are:

Node.js Performance and Highly Scalable Micro-Services by Chris Bailey

New DevTools Features for JavaScript by Yang Guo

The V8 Engine and Node.js by Franzi Hinkelmann

High Performance JS in V8 by Peter Marshall

The Node.js Event Loop: Not So Single Threaded by Bryan Hughes

Welcome and Node.js Update by Mark Hinkle

Take Your HTTP Server to Ludicrous Speed by Matteo Collina

WebAssembly and the Future of the Web by Athan Reines

High Performance Apps with JavaScript and Rust by Amir Yasin

TypeScript - A Love Tale with JavaScript by Bowden Kelly

Of course this list is just the tip of the iceberg, since there are 54 videos upladed on the Node Foundations' YouTube channel, and most of them are really insightful and fun to watch.

10. Node.js is finally more sought after than Java!

Although Ryan Dahl recently stated in an interview that..

for a certain class of application, which is like, if you're building a server, I can't imagine using anything other than Go.

.. we have no reason to doubt the success of Node.js!

Mikeal Rogers, one of the core organizers of NodeConf, community manager & core contributor at the Node Foundation stated that Node.js will overtake Java within a year in a NewStack interview this summer!

We are now at about 8 million estimated users and still growing at about 100 percent a year. We haven’t passed Java in terms of users yet, but by this time next year at the current growth, we will surpass. - Mikeal.

Mikeal is not alone with his opinion. There is hard data available to prove that Node is becoming more sought after than Java.

According to the data gathered by builtinnode, the demand for Node.js developers has already surpassed the demand for Java devs by the summer of 2017 in the Who is Hiring section of Hacker News!

Since Node was already adopted and is being advocated by the greatest tech companies on Earth, there's no doubt that it will remain a leading technology for many years ahead!

We hope that the Node community will continue to thrive in 2018 as well, and produce a plethora of exellent tools & tutorials.

At RisingStack, we'll keep on advocating & educating Node in 2018 as well, for sure! If you're interested in the best content we produced in 2017, take a look!

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The Node.js Community was amazing in 2017! Here's the proof:

Let me just start by stating this:

2017 was a great year for the Node.js Community!

Our favorite platform has finally matured to be widely adopted in the enterprise, also, a lot of great features have been merged into the core, like async/await & http2, just to mention a few.

The world runs on node ✨🐢🚀✨ #NodeInteractive http://pic.twitter.com/5PwDC2w1mE

— Franziska Hinkelmann (@fhinkel) October 4, 2017

Not only the developers who contribute to Node make this platform so great, but those who create learning materials around it were also exceptional.

In our final article of 2017, we collected a bunch of longreads which were created by the Node community. We used data from Reddit, Hacker News, Twitter & Medium to search for the most read, most shared & liked stuff out there. We intentionally omitted articles written by RisingStack (except 1, couldn't resist) - if you're interested in those, please visit our top15 of 2017 post!

I'm sure we left a bunch of amazing articles out - so if you'd like to get attention to an exceptional one you read, please let us know in the comments section.

Also, keep in mind that this post is not a classic "best of" list, just a collection that shows how amazing the Node community was in 2017! I figured that a big shoutout to the developers who constantly advocate & teach Node would be a great way to say goodbye to this year.

So, here come the proof I promised in the title:

1. We have insanely useful community curated lists:

If you'd like to gain useful knowledge quickly, you can count on the Node community. These lists were created in 2017, and contain so much best practices & shortcuts that you can definitely level up your skills by going through them.

The largest Node.JS best practices list is curated from the top ranked articles and always updated.

Awesome Node.js is an extensive list of delightful Node packages & resources.

The Modern JS Cheatsheet contains knwledge needed to build modern projects.

These lists have over 300 contributors & gained around 50K stars on GitHub!

Also, we recommend to check out these articles written by Yoni Goldberg & Azat Mardan which will help you to become a better developer:

Node.JS production best practices

10 Node.js Best Practices: Enlightenment from the Node Gurus

2. There are actually insightful Case Studies available!

One of the best articles on using Node.js was written by Scott Nonnenberg in April. The author summarized his Node experiences from the past 5 years, discussing basic concepts, architectural issues, testing, the Node ecosystem & the reason why you shouldn't use New Relic.

"I’ve already shared a few stories, but this time I wanted to focus on the ones I learned the hard way. Bugs, challenges, surprises, and the lessons you can apply to your own projects!" - Scott

..

Also, did you know that Node.js Helps NASA to Keep Astronauts Safe? It's hard to come up with something cooler than that.

NASA choose Node.js for the following reasons:

The relative ease of developing data transfer applications with JavaScript, and the familiarity across the organization with the programming language, which keeps development time and costs low.

Node.js’ asynchronous event loop for I/O operations makes it the perfect solution for a cloudbased database system that sees queries from dozens of users who need data immediately.

The Node.js package manager, npm, pairs incredibly well with Docker to create a microservices architecture that allows each API, function and application to operate smoothly and independently.

To learn more, read the full case study!

Also, shoutout to the Node Foundation who started to assemble and distribute these pretty interesting use-case whitepapers on a regular basis!

3. Node.js Authentication & Security was well covered in 2017:

When it comes to building Node.js apps (or any app..) security is crucial to get right. This is the reason why "Your Node.js authentication tutorial is (probably) wrong" written by micaksica got so much attention on HackerNoon.

tl;dr: The author went on a search of Node.js/Express.js authentication tutorials. All of them were incomplete or made a security mistake in some way that can potentially hurt new users. His post explores some common authentication pitfalls, how to avoid them, and what to do to help yourself when your tutorials don’t help you anymore.

If you plan on reading only one security related article (..but why would you do that?!), this is definitely one of the best ones!

..

Also, we recommend to check out the Damn Vulnerable NodeJS Application github page, which aims to demonstrate the OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities and guides you on fixing and avoiding these vulnerabilities.

..

Other great articles which were receiving a lot of praise were Securing Node.js RESTful APIs with JSON Web Tokens by Adnan Rahic, and Two-Factor Authentication with Node.js from David Walsh.

4. API development with Node.js has been made even more easy:

One of the main strengths of Node.js is that you can build REST APIs with it in a very efficient way! There are a lot of articles covering that topic, but these were definitely the most popular ones:

RESTful API design with Node.js walks beginners through the whole process in a very thorough, easy to understand way.

Build a Node.js API in Under 30 Minutes achieves the same result, but it uses ES6 as well.

10 Best Practices for Writing Node.js REST APIs (written by us) goes a little further and includes topics like naming your routes, authentication, black-box testing & using proper cache headers for these resources.

5. We're constantly looking under the hood of Node.js.

Luckily, the Node/JS community delivers when you want to go deeper, in fact there were so many interesting deep-dives that it was really hard to pick out the best ones, but one can try! These articles are really insightful:

Understanding Node.js Event-Driven Architecture

What you should know to really understand the Node.js Event Loop

Node.js Streams: Everything you need to know

How JavaScript works: inside the V8 engine + 5 tips on how to write optimized code

ES8 was Released and here are its Main New Features

6 Reasons Why JavaScript’s Async/Await Blows Promises Away (Tutorial)

What were the best articles that peeked under the hood of JS/Node in your opinion? Share them in the comments!

6. Awesome new Tools were made in 2017:

Two of the most hyped tools of the year were Prettier & Fastify!

In case you don't know, prettier is a JavaScript formatter that works by compiling your code to an AST, and then pretty-printing the AST.

The result is good-looking code that is completely consistent no matter who wrote it. This solves the problem of programmers spending a lot of time manually moving around code in their editor and arguing about styles.

Fastify was introduced by Matteo Collina, Node.js core technical commitee member during Node Interactive 2017 in Vancouver.

Fastify is a new web framework inspired by Hapi, Restify and Express. Fastify is built as a general-purpose web framework, but it shines when building extremely fast HTTP APIs that use JSON as the data format.

..just to mention a few.

7. There are Amazing Crash Courses Available for Free

If you'd like to start learning Node, you can count on the commmunity to deliver free, high-quality resources that can speed up your journey!

One particular author - Adnan Rahić - received a huge amount of praise for releasing crash courses for different topics on Medium. Here they are:

A crash course on testing with Node.js

A crash course on Serverless with Node.js

We hope Adnan will continue this series and create crash courses on other areas of Node as well!

8. Miscallaneus Topics are Covered as Well

What do we mean under miscallaneus topics? Well, those are topics that go beyond the "traditional" use cases of Node.js, where the authors describe something interesting & fun they built with it.

For example there were exceptional articles released that used the OpenCV library for either face recognition or just regular object recognition.

Chatbots were a hype topic too, and there was no shortage of blogposts describing how to build them using different languages.

Building A Simple AI Chatbot With Web Speech API And Node.js was one of the most praised articles. In this post Tomomi Imura walked us through building a chat-bot which can be controlled by voice. Yep, it's pretty cool.

We also recommend to check out Developing A Chatbot Using Microsoft's Bot Framework, LUIS And Node.js too, which is the first part of a series dealing with the topic.

What other fun projects did you see? Add them to the comments section!

9. The community can attend great conferences, like Node Interactive!

Node Interactive Vancouver was a major event which provided great opportunities for it's attendees to meet with fellow developers & learn a lot about their favorite subject.

Fortunately every prezentation is available on YouTube, so you can get up-to-date even if you couldn't participate this year (just like us.)

The 10 most watched right now are:

Node.js Performance and Highly Scalable Micro-Services by Chris Bailey

New DevTools Features for JavaScript by Yang Guo

The V8 Engine and Node.js by Franzi Hinkelmann

High Performance JS in V8 by Peter Marshall

The Node.js Event Loop: Not So Single Threaded by Bryan Hughes

Welcome and Node.js Update by Mark Hinkle

Take Your HTTP Server to Ludicrous Speed by Matteo Collina

WebAssembly and the Future of the Web by Athan Reines

High Performance Apps with JavaScript and Rust by Amir Yasin

TypeScript - A Love Tale with JavaScript by Bowden Kelly

Of course this list is just the tip of the iceberg, since there are 54 videos upladed on the Node Foundations' YouTube channel, and most of them are really insightful and fun to watch.

10. Node.js is finally more sought after than Java!

Although Ryan Dahl recently stated in an interview that..

for a certain class of application, which is like, if you're building a server, I can't imagine using anything other than Go.

.. we have no reason to doubt the success of Node.js!

Mikeal Rogers, one of the core organizers of NodeConf, community manager & core contributor at the Node Foundation stated that Node.js will overtake Java within a year in a NewStack interview this summer!

We are now at about 8 million estimated users and still growing at about 100 percent a year. We haven’t passed Java in terms of users yet, but by this time next year at the current growth, we will surpass. - Mikeal.

Mikeal is not alone with his opinion. There is hard data available to prove that Node is becoming more sought after than Java.

According to the data gathered by builtinnode, the demand for Node.js developers has already surpassed the demand for Java devs by the summer of 2017 in the Who is Hiring section of Hacker News!

Since Node was already adopted and is being advocated by the greatest tech companies on Earth, there's no doubt that it will remain a leading technology for many years ahead!

We hope that the Node community will continue to thrive in 2018 as well, and produce a plethora of exellent tools & tutorials.

At RisingStack, we'll keep on advocating & educating Node in 2018 as well, for sure! If you're interested in the best content we produced in 2017, take a look!

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React Boilerplates That You Should Know Of

Interested in finding good React boilerplates? If that’s the case, don’t worry – finding a good one has never been easier!

The likelier scenario is that you will be overwhelmed by great alternatives to choose from.

The first react boilerplate projects to appear are still the most popular ones – they have a leading number of GitHub Stars and must-have recommendations, and are available in many different packages and dependencies.

This will make it even more difficult to choose the right react boilerplates that will work for you.

When looking for a kit, developers usually look for something simple and easy to learn, and try to avoid complex and ultra powerful suites. At the end of the day, starter projects ought to be simple, and pack neatly the things most needed in a clutter-free environment.

What are React boilerplates?

As a novice user, you may find React boilerplates a bit too complicated to set up, but pretty straightforward once you get grasp of how they work. Getting a simple, create-react app will probably make the most sense in the beginning, especially when you want to skip burdensome development and coding.

The curious ones among you, however, have an unlimited world of possibilities to consider. Let’s check.

There are two basic requirements for each React user nowadays:

To secure a streamlined way to deliver all the node-modules code he wrote to his users

To make ES6 and JSX run successfully in any browser.

Both missions happen to be problematic to inexperienced users, and in order to solve them, they need two specific tools: babel and webpack. The one doesn’t necessarily exclude the other – you can always choose one to get the work done, but pairing them into a single ecosystem is proved to bring the best results.

Which are the top React Boilerplates you should be considering?

React Starter Kit

React Starter Kit is another opinionated and modern boilerplate built on React, Express, Node,js, and GraphQL. The pack combines a variety of advanced web development tools, including Browsersync, Babel, and Webpack, and helps you stay productive and make use of the industry’s best practices. The kit will work impeccably both for newcomers and industry professionals.

React Boilerplate

Here are some of the main benefits:

Fast scaffolding

You can create containers, routes, components, sagas, and selectors, and test them directly from your CLI.

Immediate feedback

You will be able to enhance your Developer experience (DX) and code apps faster than you can possibly imagine. All JS and CSS changes are saved automatically, and will reflect instantly without the need to refresh the page. In fact, the current state of your application will be preserved even while updating it in the underlying code.

Predictable and intuitive state management

You will be provided with unidirectional data flows that make it possible to log changes and debug time travel.

Next generation JavaScript

You will also have access to JSX syntax, object destructuring, template strings, and more similar elements right away.

Next generation CSS

For the purposes of complete modularity, you will be invited to prepare compostable CSS codes within the same location of your main components. In order to avoid style clashes and keep specificity low, you can also generate and use original class names, and yet ship only those styles that appear on the page to ensure top performance.

Industry-standard routing

Another thing you may wish to do is to add pages (for instance, an ‘About’ page) to the app, and React Boilerplate will make this possible with its industry-standard routing.

18 n support for internationalization

If interested to develop a scalable app, you should also be looking to implement support for several languages, and leave an open possibility to add more of them (‘react-inl’).

Offline-first

The latest trend in web app design is to make applications available even without a network connection.

SEO

React Boilerplate also supports SEO (management of document head tags) for those searching engines that index JavaScript content (Google is one of them).

React Slingshot

React Slingshot is another compact application development suite that targets beginners. You should choose it because:

It takes a single command to get started – just type ‘npm’, and you can begin developing in your preferred browser.

It provides instant feedback – Once you click ‘save’, the system reloads and saves your changes, and runs linting and automated tests.

It takes a single command to check – All the feedback you’ve collected will be displayed within a single command line.

It eliminates all JavaScript fatigue – In order to work with React, Slingshot ensues access to all powerful and best known libraries.

There is an Example App included for you to see how these elements work together.

Automated production – The key to launch your development work is again typing ‘npm’.

React Static Boilerplate

React Static Boilerplate (or RSB) is a server-less toolset dedicated to trendy and standalone web apps (SPAs). It is best known for reducing developers’ costs, and eliminating all EC2 instances and allowing them to host sites directly from CDN storage bases (GitHub, Amazon S3, Firebase, and so on). Still, all pages you’ve built using RSB will be fully responsive and functional due to their REST API, as well as GraphQL calls to different micro-services (Azure Functions, Amazon Lambada, Docker endpoints on DigitalOcean, and more).

Newcomers will also have access to frontrunner technologies such as Redux, React, React Hot Loader, Babel, Webpack, and Browsersync to learn more on component-based UI development.

NWB

nwb is a popular development suite you can use to:

Develop apps with React, Prereact, Inferno, and vanilla JavaScript

Develop different React components and libraries

Development of npm web modules

You will also be provider a configuration-free development setup, and a possibility to add some additional plugin functionality upon need (SaaS support, for instance).

ReactStrap

ReactStrap is a development library full of interesting Bootstrap 4 components that is completely independent from both jQuery and Bootstrap JavaScript. Nevertheless, it relies on Tether to ensure advanced content positioning, as for instance Popovers, auto-flipping dropdowns, tooltips, and more.

The library is pretty simple to manipulate, and requires only basic understanding of core development concepts.

Razzle

Keeping in mind how difficult standard JS apps can be to develop, you should consider Razzle as a much simpler option. Instead of setting things up yourself, or buying a separate Next.js framework or a react server, you can use Razzle to transfer all necessary tooling within a single dependency, and decide at the very end on all routing, frameworks, and other architectural decisions.

Create React App

Here, there will be no need to configure or install Babel and Webpack tools.

They apps are preconfigured and well-organized, and allow you to stay focused on the code.

The only thing you need to do is to create and launch your project.

Here are some installation tips:

You can install the app globally using:

npm install -g create-react-app

Note that you should have Node >= 6 operable on your machine, so that you can switch different Node versions for different Node projects with ease.

Also, keep in mind that the tool does not assume a Node backend, and that the above-mentioned installation process is only necessary for the Create React App.

Next.js

As all developers will agree, one of the most cumbersome operations nowadays is to create one-page JavaScript applications. The good news is that you have access to a variety of projects that can simplify and accelerate this process. In fact, Create React App is the leading example of how that works.

What’s the challenge with it then? Create React Apps usually involve a long and daunting learning curve before you’ve actually built something that looks like a decent application. The reason is that you must familiarize with routing on the client’s side, pick a good layout for the page, and complete several similar processes.

With more bells and whistles coming along the way (including the need for the server to render quicker page loads), there will be even more learning to do.

How do we simplify the process? The answer is customization.

Think of web apps and how they’re developed using PHP. Your role there is to create the needed files, write their specific PHP codes, and deploy them afterwards. The routing is not that much of a concern, as the app will be rendered on the servers automatically.

Here is where Next.js comes on the scene: the same app is built with React and JavaScript instead of PHP. Other interesting features include:

Automated server rendering

Automated code splitting that allows faster loading of pages

Simplified routing on the client’s side (page based)

Webpack-based environment for development that also supports Hot Module Replacement (HMR)

A possibility to implement it with Express as well as other Node.js HTTP servers

A possibility to customize it with Babel and Webpack configurations you’ve created.

StarHackIt

StarHackIt is starter-friendly web app development kit written with es6/es7, and created using React and Node.js. These are the features it provides:

Authentication: usernames and passwords, Facebook authentication, Google account authentication, and so on.

Authorization: Users, groups, roles, and permissions schemes

A micro services based and scalable architecture (message queues).

A relational database (MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, MsSQL, and so on).

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Universal Relay Boilerplate

Universal Relay Boilerplate is an open-source project development foundation that makes use of Node.js, Cassandra, and React’s stack for backend development. You can also use it as a boilerplate and an educational tool with an array of useful examples. It will also offer a basic kit for account management, namely allow you to create accounts, strengthen password indicators, and manage user profiles.

When applied as a boilerplate, Universal Relay is fully customizable and modifiable, and allows you to update as many projects as you want with minimal intervention. The reason is that this suite packs several modern features for project improvement and bug fixing, and allows the following operations:

Configuration. With Universal Relay, it will be very difficult to get confused – all JavaScript and JSX scripts, CQL, JSON, and other configuration files will be completely independent from the common code.

Creation of Units. All apps you’ve created using this boilerplate as your foundation can be divided in separate units, fully equipped with CQL, relay, front- and backend codes. You can configure the settings and parameters of each unit from within the configuration folder.

If you liked this article about React boilerplates, you should check out these as well:

NodeJS boilerplates that you should start using

WordPress boilerplates to use for your themes and plugins

12 Useful AngularJS Boilerplates

Maps APIs To Use In Your Projects

Social Media APIs That You Can Use

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Babylon.js 4.0, Electron 5.0, and standing up for the ternary operator

#435 — May 3, 2019

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Editor.js: A Block-Styled Editor with JSON Output — Typical WYSIWYG editors output raw HTML markup but Editor.js keeps things organized into ‘blocks’ which are then returned in structured JSON which makes the content easier to sanitize or transform.

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Shimport 1.0: Use JavaScript Modules in All Browsers? — Allows you to use JS modules in all browsers, including dynamic import(). We first linked this when it was entirely experimental but it’s just had its 1.0 release, so have a play.

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In Defense of the Ternary Statement — Code similar to expression ? true_result : false_result is known as a ternary expression. Much maligned, is it possible to use them in JavaScript without getting into an unreadable mess?

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NodeJS boilerplates that you should start using

Are you looking through Github trying to find the best NodeJS boilerplates? Stop looking, they’re all here, in this article.

In the world of computer programming, boilerplate is the common name for larger code sections that can be included in various locations with minimal tweaking and alterations.

Quite often, developers refer to them as the ‘verbose languages’, namely such causing programmers to write endless lines of code to complete a fairly simple task.

In order to eliminate the need for boilerplates, developers came up with advanced mechanisms such as metaprogramming (when boilerplates are written and inserted at compile time directly by the computer); model-driven engineering (eliminates the need for manual coding with special model-to-code generators); and convention-over-configuration (solid default values that reduce the need to pinpoint program details for each project).

NodeJS Boilerplates

In this article, we will go over several NodeJS Boilerplates you can consider to cut out some of the tedious work. Let’s give them a look:

Hackathon Starter

Hackathon Starter is a boilerplate for Node.js web apps. With some hackathon experience from the past, it won’t take you much to understand how to launch a project: think on what to build, select your preferred programming language, and choose a web and a CSS framework.

After a while, you can also involve other team members to contribute to your GitHub project, and simplify it with Facebook sign-in authentication. For the purpose, you should be familiar with OAuth 2.0, as otherwise this may take hours to complete.

Let’s move on to the next NodeJS boilerplates.

Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Node.js

Just recently, developers had the pleasure to try out Node.js’s newest Alexa SDK that helps them improve their skills, and accomplish project sway simpler than before.

Alexa offers a dedicated Skill Kit for Node.js, as well as AWS Lambda which is continuing to grow in popularity as we speak. Alexa Skill works perfectly with Node.js’s non-blocking and event-driven I/O model, and thus represents one of the biggest open-source libraries developers can possibly use. Plus, AWS Lambda will be available at no charge for the first one million of calls, which most developers will find absolutely sufficient. With it, they won’t have to manage any SSL certificate, as they’ll be working with a trusted provider.

How did Alexa Skill evolve? Back in the days, it took developers little time to learn what the tools was all about and how it should be installed, but there was still a significant amount of code for them to write. They used to spend hours and hours on Alexa Skills to handle its session attributes, build responses, and model behaviour.

This is why Alexa gathered the best developers to set out a special SDK kit, and make sure long and common hang-ups are completely eliminated.

Ng-Fullstack

Ng-Fullstack is in fact a popular Yeoman generator that accelerates prototyping for new web apps, and uses only the latest technologies available on the market. You will be offered a server app, a single client app, or the full productivity stack (TodoApp), with the possibility to expand each of them, and use them as you want.

With the stack being as modern as it is, expect to have certain questions and dilemmas about it. The app combines the best approaches and divisions of tasks and responsibilities, so it makes absolute sense to give it some time, and learn how it works.

NodeBootstrap

If you wish to organize Node projects like pro, look no further than NodeBootstrap’s Microservice mode.

This boilerplate handles microservice-style setups, Docker support, clustering, error fixing, modularity, template views, environments, and advanced logging, all from a single dashboard. Better yet, there is no heavy and messy framework to worry about!

Vue, ExpressJS, MongoDB

The compact web-app boilerplate stack works well for VueJS, ExpressJS, and MongoDB projects, rather than unique, out-of-the-box ones. What developers tried to do here is to create a modern starter repo that will cover all main app functions (signups, logins, oAuth, profiles, and more), but will still leave the development of a business logic in your hands.

Node.js Passport Boilerplate

Node.js Passport Boilerplate is a NodeJS user system that illustrates the use of passports in mongoose, express, and jade environments. It combines data with simple login front pages, and offers signup and profile mocks thanks to its Twitter Bootstrap integration. The tool is also well-connected with Google, GitHub, Facebook, and Passport LocalStrategy.

Node.js Website Boilerplate

Node.js Website Boilerplate is in fact a website template developed for blog articles and other dynamic pages. It is fully equipped with SEO abilities, author management features, contact forms, and search fields. It is being improved as we speak, and each contribution is welcomed.

Node.js does not possess a mail server, and uses SMTPS to connect its contact form to the mail service you prefer. To enable this option, add SMTPS_STRING to your ENV vars in ythe Cosmic JS bucket. You will find it within Your Bucket > Settings > Deploy Website.

Here is how an edited string should look:smtps://yourname%40gmail.com:yourpass@smtp.gmail.com.

ExpressJS, Socket.IO, AngularJS Boilerplate

The time when a developer ought to configure each folder structure in order to launch a new project is long behind us. Now, there are ExpressJS, SocketIO, and AngularJS Boilerplates to get started immediately, and focus only on those aspects that matter to you.

Servers

ExpressJS API and JSON web token (JWT) authentication

Socket.IO that implements real-time messages on AngularJS and ExpressJS clients

Mocha test runners for ExpressJS apps

User controller tests

Embedded packages for request parameters, express-validations, and paginated responses

Testing API endpoints for Postman desktop apps using Postman collection

PM2 for processing JSON files for production environments

Clients

Component–centered AngularJS client app developed on version 1.6.x

User authentication based on tokens (Auth component and Auth interceptor)

Different routes for signing up, changing user passwords, and updating user lists and profiless

BootStrap grid systems with SASS pre-processors

Browser-sync gulp for service apps that completes a variety of SASS-files compilation tasks, building tasks (for minified productions) and JShint linting.

UI routers for smooth AngularJS routing

Node / Backbone Web App Boilerplate

This Node / Backbone Web App Boilerplate combines a variety of scalable web application building tools in a compact and powerful package.

Both projects gained staggering popularity, which is why you won’t be challenged to find a solid boilerplate project for any of them. Note, however, that there are only few projects that bring the best of backend and frontend performance together, and they’re usually devoted only to Node or Backbone. This is the last one of these NodeJS boilerplates.

If you liked this article about NodeJS boilerplates, you should also check out these as well:

WordPress boilerplates to use for your themes and plugins

12 Useful AngularJS Boilerplates

Maps APIs To Use In Your Projects

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#336: npm 5.0 Released

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Issue 336 — May 26, 2017

npm 5.0 Released

The popular JavaScript package manager takes some big steps forward with significantly improved performance. It’ll also be included with Node 8, due next week.

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V8, Advanced JavaScript, and the Next Performance Frontier

Seth Thompson of the V8 team gave a 40 minute talk at Google I/O about how V8 is going, recent performance improvements, etc. all backed up with diagrams and benchmarks.

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The State of JavaScript Modules

An explanation and summary of the current state of various approaches.

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Preact: Into The Void

A look at the internals of Preact, a tiny 3KB React alternative. Plus, Jason sheds light on fundamentals like JSX and Virtual DOM, and demystifies DOM diffing.

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Comparing Jasmine, Mocha, AVA, Tape and Jest

A look over five popular unit testing frameworks to help you decide which is best for you.

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This Week's Node Weekly

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In Brief

Twilio Introduces 'Functions' to Serverlessly Script Their Services with JS news Upload JavaScript to handling incoming calls, text messages, etc. Twilio

Higher-Order Functions in Lodash tutorial Michał Piotrkowski

Managing Async Dependencies with fetch-inject tutorial Josh Habdas

Event Bubbling and Event Propagation Explained tutorial Giulio Mainardi

How To (Safely) Use a jQuery Plugin With Vue.js tutorial

How to Make a Simple JavaScript Quiz tutorial Yaphi Berhanu

Highlight Text Within a String Using Angular and Regular Expressions tutorial Nic Raboy

Build Faster. Test More. Fail Less. Easy CI/CD for JavaScript.  The modern continuous integration and delivery platform that software teams love to use. CircleCI  Sponsor

You Might Not Need to Transpile Your JavaScript opinion Alex Ewerlöf

Why One Developer Chose ClojureScript Over JavaScript opinion

React vs Angular: Two Sides of JavaScript opinion Cleveroad

Preact CLI: Create and Build Preact Apps More Easily tools Jason Miller

React Live: A Playground for Live Editing React Components tools Formidable

Add Powerful UI Components to your React Apps with ExtReact tools Learn how to build data-intensive, cross-platform web apps leveraging over 115 Sencha components and React. Sencha, Inc.  Sponsor

ArrayCompress: Efficient Compression of Arrays to Strings code Useful if you need to store as string in a DB. Roger Beaman

Chromatism: A Simple Set of Utility Functions for Colors code Nice visual examples in the README. Graham Pegg

asm-dom: A Minimal Perf-Focused WebAssembly Virtual DOM code Matteo Basso

Birdview.js: A UI Experiment to View an Entire Page at Once code Fits a visual ‘birds-eye’ overview of a web page into your viewport. Achraf Kassioui

Shift your deployment to MongoDB Atlas and get $100 in credit  MONGODB  Sponsor

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