February 21, 2022
Fastify has 91% developer satisfaction and others Adventures in Nodeland - Issue #48
Hi Folks, here is another edition of Adventures in Nodeland packed with great news and new releases. The biggest news is that Fastify has 91% developer satisfaction according to the State of JS survey. I find this result quite impressive - thank all of you for the support! On the release front… I shipped Fastify v4.0.0-alpha.1 on Friday! As usual, let me know if you have any questions!
Last Friday I merged the next branch of Fastify with the main branch, officially starting the v4 release cycle with v4.0.0-alpha.1. The pre-release is pretty low on release notes, plugin support and migration guides. However all breaking changes are there. We will cut a release candidate soon!
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Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js. Contribute to fastify/fastify development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js. Contribute to fastify/fastify development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Last week we also shipped a new version of fastify-reply-from that adds support for custom querystring functions:
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fastify plugin to forward the current http request to another server - Release v6.5.0 · fastify/fastify-reply-from
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fastify plugin to forward the current http request to another server - Release v6.5.0 · fastify/fastify-reply-from
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Fastify does not allow to redefine routes at runtime. This causes a challenge to use Fastify as the basis of any software that needs to do so when reacting on a configuration change. I have created a new library called @fastify/restartable that wraps Fastify and allow you to reload a fastify instance in the same process. Here is a simple example:
Mercurius Federation Gateway continues to improve. You should try the new release:
Implement GraphQL servers and gateways with Fastify - Release v9.3.2 · mercurius-js/mercurius
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One of my teams at NearForm keep finding edge cases that are not handled by Mercurius gateway, in this case the support for value types in top-level resolvers. I have a good grip on how federation work and fixing its problems, so this time it was not an impossible bug.
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Manuel fixed an important bug on top of the previous fixes to handle empty arrays or null references.
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Follow up #726
When the resolvers returns empty states (null or []) an error is thrown
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Follow up #726
When the resolvers returns empty states (null or []) an error is thrown
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Pino v7.8.0 was released last week with a few fixes and a new feature: mixinMergeStrategy. Check it out
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🌲 super fast, all natural json logger. Contribute to pinojs/pino development by creating an account on GitHub.
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🌲 super fast, all natural json logger. Contribute to pinojs/pino development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Check out v6.14.0 that adds the mixinMergeStrategy to the LTS line too:
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🌲 super fast, all natural json logger. Contribute to pinojs/pino development by creating an account on GitHub.
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🌲 super fast, all natural json logger. Contribute to pinojs/pino development by creating an account on GitHub.
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One of the reason I build Open Source software is to improve the lives of the developers around the globe. Therefore I couldn’t have added the following article to my newsletter:
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Should you move to serverless? Is GraphQL the answer to your API woes? Should you follow the latest DevOps playbook to increase your system reliability?
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Should you move to serverless? Is GraphQL the answer to your API woes? Should you follow the latest DevOps playbook to increase your system reliability?
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After a couple of months from the previous release of express v4, we can see more movement on express that is now progressing in the release of v5 with the first beta release!
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Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node. - Release 5.0.0-beta.1 · expressjs/express
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Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node. - Release 5.0.0-beta.1 · expressjs/express
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Should you use REST? or maybe GraphQL? What is simpler and guarantee you the best time to market?
There are quite a few misconceptions when it comes to graphql. It cannot be cached on http protocol level, it has to return 200 code even when there are errors, it kills fluffy kitten every time you make a mutation.
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I often find myself in situations where I have to design a migration from a legacy system to a fresh, modern one.. Here is a detailed guide:
I find the trend of specifying the types in modules using JSDoc instead of writing them in TypeScript from the get-go quite fascinating. It combines great user experience for users while retaining the full flexibility of JavaScript when implementing things. Wdyt? Would you use them?
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As I build out swyxkit, I am finding that I am no longer prototyping and that I need to be able to refactor with confidence. This makes it the right time to introduce types! I was tempted to use TypeScript since I am more familiar with that, but since SvelteKit is written with JSDoc types, I figured I’d finally give that a try as I had never tried it before.
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As I build out swyxkit, I am finding that I am no longer prototyping and that I need to be able to refactor with confidence. This makes it the right time to introduce types! I was tempted to use TypeScript since I am more familiar with that, but since SvelteKit is written with JSDoc types, I figured I’d finally give that a try as I had never tried it before.
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Do you like Markdown? I do! However quite a few startups are replacing it with their custom, post-markdown, proprietary format to be able to support more use cases. Check out this article from the smashing magazine.
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Quick summary ↬ Markdown in all its flavors, interpretations, and forks won’t go away.
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Quick summary ↬ Markdown in all its flavors, interpretations, and forks won’t go away.
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I’m a huge proponent of the micro frontends approach… so I couldn’t link this article from Auth0 describing how they set it up!
TL;DR: Module Federation allows loading Micro Frontends at runtime. Common dependencies like Angular or the Auth0 library can be shared and hence don’t need to be loaded several times. This is also the key for sharing data like the current user or global filters.
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How does twitter servers logs? What are the complexities involved? In the following article you would learn how hard logging at scale can be. Check it out:
Infrastructure While centralized logging previously existed at Twitter, it was limited by low ingestion capacity, and limited query capabilities which resulted in poor adoption and failed to deliver the value we hoped for.
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![[gateway] Resolve nested references in a value type resolved from a top-level resolver by mcollina · Pull Request #734 · mercurius-js/mercurius · GitHub](https://buttondown-attachments.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/29ee0a82-20a3-46cb-ae3c-faae27b6037c?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJEXF6S6TCOKT7N3Q&Signature=aD2xVLUKGOfgFMWyMRMpRCn7dMs%3D&Expires=1677575600)
