🍩 donut.js

Animates a spinning ASCII text donut on the screen.

wavesurfer.js 7: Audio Waveform Player

If you’re creating a podcast player, audio experience, or anything where seeing an interactive audio waveform could be useful, check this out. GitHub repo.

KATSPAUGH AND CONTRIBUTORS

🦖 The Easiest Javascript Game Ever

🗞 Issue 25 / 26.07.2023


📄 The Node.js Best Practices List: 2023 Edition

A valuable, long standing resource has been “modernized to 2023 standards” (complete with recommendations of more modern libraries) with lots of work by creator Yoni and an ever growing team of contributors. The topics remain the same, however, covering areas like code style, project architecture, and taking apps into production. (If you’re already familiar with this list, you can skim through the #new and #updated hashtags on the page.)

YONI GOLDBERG ET AL.


📄Microsoft TypeChat: An Approach for Type-Safe LLM Responses

It’s interesting to see a new project from Microsoft with so many prominent names attached to it, but demonstrates the huge excitement within MS for ML and large language models (LLMs). TypeChat’s goal is to work around the issue of LLMs outputting unstructured natural language and instead to direct such output into a predictable, typed form.

HEJLSBERG, LUCCO, ROSENWASSER ET AL.


©️NODE.JS WEEKLY

🛠 CODE & TOOLS


🔩 Ink 4.3: Build Interactive CLI Apps using React

A terminal-based React renderer so you can build command line apps using React-style components. It's mature and used by all sorts of folks.

VADIM DEMEDES


🔩 Necord: A Framework for Creating Discord Bots

It uses Nest and Discord.js under the hood. Some example apps show how easy it is to deploy bot functions. GitHub repo.

NECORD


🔩 MailDev: SMTP Server and Web Interface for Testing Emails

If your app needs to send email, rather than sending it to a live account, you could send it to this app which lets you get a local preview without having to think about spam filters, etc.

DAN FARRELLY

How We Generate JS and Python SDKs from a Canonical Rust SDK'

PostgresML is an extension that adds machine learning functions into Postgres. Its team loves and prefers Rust but most of its users are using JavaScript or Python. What to do? Simultaneously write multi-language libraries using Rust..

SILAS MARVIN (POSTGRESML)