May 15, 2023

NodeRealm, platformatic start, modular monoliths and other Adventures in Nodeland

Hi Folks, I was in Vancouver last week to meet the OpenJS crowd at Open Source Summit and Platformatic Co-Founder Luca Maraschi! It has been a blast of a week - despite being busy, quite a few things happened anyway, so here is the usual newsletter format!

Videos

Should you build a monolith? Should you go for microservices? How about adopting an architecture that can scale well in complexity? Check out my latest talk: building a modular monolith with Fastify at: https://portal.gitnation.org/contents/building-a-modular-monolith-with-fastify.

I've been working on a new Pull Request for Node.js Core during my latest stream: vm.NodeReam. Here is the current status of work in PR 47855.

Releases

• @fastify/restartable v2.1.0 adds hooks to execute code when the application restarts.
• find-my-way v7.6.2 empty routes tree printing.
• @fastify/one-line-logger v1.2.0 adds support for custom levels.
• @fastify/middie v8.3.0 supports hooks with payloads.
• @fastify/kafka v2.2.0 pins rdkafka to v2.14.0 as it is the last working version.
• @fastify/compress v6.3.0 adds support for Functions in the customType option.
• undici v5.22.1 implements CacheStorage, adds custom headers to WebSocket and fix many bugs.
• pino-elasticsearch v6.4.0 adds elasticsearch client options caFingerprint and tls.
• async-cache-dedupe v1.12.0 adds support dynamic stale config property and removes the need of CachedFunction in the types.
• @fastify/swagger v8.4.0 adds support for HEAD routes.
• fast-redact v3.2.0 improves the redaction mechanism for wild cards above level 2.
• platformatic v0.23.0 introduces a new command, platformatic start.

Jobs

• Join the OpenJS Foundation to help improve the security of the JS ecosystem

I'm happy to reference and promote jobs that would help my readers free of charge.

Articles

• Do you use OpenAPI? If so, you might be interested in testing for Breaking Changes in Fastify APIs. Thanks to the use of GitHub actions and OSS libraries, it's a breeze.

• In "my Struggle with remix", Artem explains what does not click for him on the framework; Do you like Remix?

• Introducing Deopt Explorer - TypeScript - this new game changer tool from the TypeScript team will allows you to understand how to fix most deoptimizations in V8!

• In "How to handle emojis in Nodejs", Manuel explains one of the most-needed topics in development.

Upcoming Events

If you would like to meet me in person, you will find me at these upcoming events:

• JSNation - Amsterdam, Netherlands - 1st of June
• Refactor DX 2023, Toronto, Canada, 12-13th of July
• GraphQL Conf - San Francisco, California, USA - 19-22nd of September