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Thursday, August 9, 2018

Node Best Practices, Machine Learning in Node with TensorFlow.js and more

#250 — August 9, 2018

Dumper.js: A Pretty Variable Inspector for Node — If you're one for 'print-style' debugging, this could prove very handy for you. You can either dump out the object of your choice (including nested objects) and keep running or terminate the process.

Zeeshan Ahmed

A Curated Compilation of Node Best Practices — Curated from numerous popular articles, this in-development list of best practices covers topics from error handling to memory use and, most recently, security.

Yoni Goldberg

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Got 9.0: A Powerful HTTP Request Library for Node.js — Got is a popular HTTP request library from one-man package powerhouse Sindre Sorhus. Version 9 is a significant release that uses the latest Node 8+ features and has a significantly smaller install size.

Sindre Sorhus

Machine Learning in Node with TensorFlow.js — TensorFlow.js brings TensorFlow's machine learning capabilities to JavaScript, and while it's been browser-focused so far, experimental support for Node has now been introduced. Here's how it works.

James Thomas

Community Questions Following the ESLint Security Incident — Almost a month ago, there was an incident where a heavily used module was hijacked. This post answers a few outstanding questions about what happened and what measures are being taken to avoid similar incidents.

The npm Blog

💻 Jobs

NodeJS Development in Beautiful Norway — We are adding to our team building low latency back-ends for awesome developer experience and scalable software. Check us out.

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Join Our Career Marketplace & Get Matched With a Job You Love — Through Hired, software engineers have transparency into salary offers, competing opportunities and job details.

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📘 Tutorials

Deploying a Stateful Application on Azure Kubernetes Service — Guides you through the process of deploying a stateful, Dockerized Node app (the Ghost blogging platform) on the Azure Kubernetes Service.

Kristof Ivancza

How to Create a Serverless Twitter Bot on Google Cloud — Google Cloud Functions went GA last week, so why not take it for a spin?

William Saar

▶ An Introduction to Web Scraping with Node and Cheerio — Cheerio provides jQuery-style DOM manipulation server-side.

Traversy Media

The Three Types of Node Profilers You Should Know About — A look at standard profilers, tracing profilers and APM tools.

Ben Putano

Squeeze Node Performance with Flame Graphs — Investigating and optimizing a Node API using flame graphs.

Alexandru Olaru

▶ How to Approach Security with Node.js — A conversation with Google Engineer Mike Samuel.

Node.js Foundation

Best in Class Video Infrastructure in Two API Requests

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🔧 Code and Tools

PrettyError: See Node.js Errors with Less Clutter and Better Formatting

Aria Minaei

chromium-headless-remote: Dockerized Chromium in Headless Remote Debugging Mode — Ideal to use with Puppeteer.

Kir Belevich

Be the First to Try Powerful CI/CD Pipelines in Semaphore 2.0 — Model your workflow from commit to deploy the simple way with powerful pipelines. Get your invite to try it.

Semaphore sponsor

Camaro: A High Performance XML to JSON Converter — Uses bindings to pugixml, a fast C++ XML parser.

Tuan Anh Tran

Kakapo.js: A 'Next Gen' HTTP Mocking Framework

DevLucky

Fiora: A Chat App Powered by Socket.io, Koa, MongoDB and React

碎碎酱

fast-memoize: The 'Fastest Possible' JS Memoization Library

Caio Gondim