Issue #12

Node weekly

• The JavaScript Ecosystem Is Delightfully Weird: About PHP, Rails, and JavaScript. About streaming HTML, JavaScript, or JSON.
• JS private class fields considered harmful: Starting the day with a ruse between private classes and proxies in JavaScript?
• The Safest Way To Hide Your API Keys When Using React: As long as you don’t use AWS Secret Manager (jumpscare), but you do build React apps and don’t understand why the secret environmental variables end up in the client bundled code – read up. Also quick refresher on Express proxy servers.
• The Journey To a Faster Sandpack Transpiler: We successfully avoided Rust (jumpscare) for about 11 editions, but here we go. If you remember Sandpack and Nodebox, they re-wrote their transpilers in Rust.
• How to build a developer community: In written and video form, Jana Iris talks about the importance of metrics in developer communities and how to align them to the company goals.

Tools of the week

• ink: React for interactive command-line apps
• postgrest: REST API for any Postgres database
• wundergraph: Backend for Frontend Framework
• FusionAuth: Authentication and authorization
• Mintlify: Documentation as a service