When in async, we wait…

Harsha Vardhan

📌 First rule of programming...

Jump Start Vue.js (2019)

Get up to speed with Vue.js in a weekend! Since its release in 2014, Vue.js has seen a meteoric rise to popularity and is now considered one of the primary front-end frameworks, and not without good reason. ...

NILSON JACQUES

I heard you want to be a web developer 😁

🗞 Issue 21 / 11.07.2023


📄 Node v20.4.0 Introduces Mock Timers

The latest release of Node includes a new MockTimers API that can make any tests involving time-dependent functionality more reliable and deterministic by mocking `setTimeout, setInterval, node:timers`, and more.

RAFAEL GONZAGA


📄 Testing the Dark Scenarios of Your Node App

An interesting look at some examples of easily overlooked but nonetheless important tests to have in your app or package. What happens when a service times out, code is mutating things it shouldn’t, or you have zombie processes milling around? These are some of the ‘dark scenarios’ you can easily be prepared for.

YONI GOLDBERG AND RAZ LUVATON


📄 TypeScript and ECMAScript Modules in Node.js

An official docs page focusing on the use of ESM with Node.js in TypeScript projects. We’ve linked to this before, but it’s a handy document that continues to be updated.

MICROSOFT


©️NODE.JS WEEKLY

🔩 APIs and SDKs


🧲 threads-api: Unofficial Client API for Meta's Threads

A way to use Meta’s Twitter-a-like from Node? This seems like the sort of thing that won’t work in a month or two, but who knows.. many Instagram libraries have done very well despite a lack of official support.

JUNHO YEO


🧲🎵 Spotify Unveils a TypeScript SDK for its Web API

Now this is officially supported. The popular music streaming service has long had a Web API for getting information about songs, managing playlists, controlling playback, etc. and now there’s an officially supported TypeScript SDK for it. This post includes some handy examples.

JO FRANCHETTI (SPOTIFY)