Issue #08

Node weekly

• GitHub Galaxy 2023 – your guide to building a more flexible and productive software development cycle: Seems like everybody gets ready for GitHub Galaxy? This year will be focused on innovative tools (AI ahem) and developer-friendly features can help businesses achieve their goals and drive innovation at scale.
• How Discord stores trillions of messages: In other architectural news, Discord engineers write about their insane challenges of database scalability, fault-tolerance, and performance optimization.
• All JavaScript and TypeScript Features of the last 3 years: For anyone keeping books on programming languages, this article goes through all the changes in the last 3 years in JavaScript and TypeScript. For no specific reason.
• How to Get Started with Docker using NodeJS: For the ones not keeping up with Docker news (me), here is a quick refresher for Node.js. It includes an example of how it simplifies onboarding to a project, how it works, and why it is beneficial for all of us.
• Let’s Talk About Developer Wellness: Developer Nation’s Developer Productivity survey is still open (can participate!!). They work to raise awareness around the importance of work well-being for software developers, and contribute to the understanding of developer communities.

Tools of the week

• turbowatch: Extremely fast file change detector and task orchestrator for Node.js
• crawlee: A web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js that helps you build reliable crawlers
• defer.run: Zero infrastructure Node background jobs (free tier)
• rspack: (Another week, another) fast Rust web bundler 🦀️
• bloop: Fast code search engine written in Rust