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An Overview of Buffers in Node.js

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The August 2018 Security Releases — Node 6.14.4, 8.11.4, and 10.9.0 have been released including an upgraded version of OpenSSL and resolutions for a couple of security vulnerabilities. NodeSource has put together a more detailed roundup of what these releases are for.

Node.js Foundation

An Overview of Buffers in Node.js — Buffers provide a handy way to work with streams of binary data but they can be a cause of confusion - this article aims to address that.

Valeri Karpov

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Google Cloud Functions and App Engine Adds Headless Chrome Support — The Google Cloud Functions and Cloud Functions for Firebase Node.js 8 runtimes have been upgraded with the packages required to run headless Chrome - ideal if you're a Puppeteer user.

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Puppeteer 1.7 Released — Puppeteer is an official library for controlling headless Chrome and Chromium instances using the DevTools protocol. 1.7 brings it up to Chromium 70 and introduces a new puppeteer-core package that doesn't also download Chromium at install time.

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npm 6.4.0 Released

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📘 Tutorials

How To Develop a Node TCP Server using PM2 and NGINX on Ubuntu 16.04 — This post digs into building a simple TCP server and client then running and managing it as a background process with PM2.

Kunal Relan

Build a Netflix Style Video Platform - Node API Client — Play videos at the same quality and speed as Netflix & YouTube. API clients for all major languages.

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How to Debug a Node.js App in a Docker Container — ..to catch bugs that cannot be revealed in any other way.

Tamas Kadlecsik

Running Code Snippets via Node.js and nodemon — "a trick for running a snippet of JavaScript code with Node.js while working on it."

Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

Creating a Secure REST API in Node

Marcos Henrique Da Silva

▶ Build Node.js APIs using Serverless — How to migrate an API of an existing app over to Azure Functions. 42 minutes

Simona Cotin

Locating Memory Leaks in Node.js Applications

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