Node.js Backend Master Class and other Adventures in Nodeland - Issue #85
Hi Folks, last week has been exciting. I traveled to London to speak at HalfStack and Modern Frontends Live. I’ve met a lot of old friends, as well as met a few folks I only talked to online.
HalfStack was like attending a full-day concert of your local band. Thanks Dylan for organizing it, I would definitely recommend everybody to attend.
I was disappointed by Modern Frontends Live. I expected the talks to be recorded (and live-streamed), so many people could watch them, but the organizers let us down. Take a moment to read Jo Frachetti‘s review. On the bright side, the speaker lineup of the conference was stellar, and I met so many internet-only friends there. I hope to spend more time with them at future events.
Node.js Backend Master Class
I will do a Node.js Backend Masterclass in two weeks, teaching how to structure Node.js applications (link on the image).
Releases
- fastify v4.10.2 and v3.29.4 fix a potential CSRF issue when using Fastify without a CORS policy in place. You can read more at GHSA-3fjj-p79j-c9hh. This is CVE-2022-41919.
- env-schema v5.1.1
- @fastify/jwt v6.3.3: adds
onlyCookieverify option tests and types. - fastify-cli v5.6.0 adds the
create eject --esmcommand. - async-cache-dedupe v1.6.0 fixes the support for using functions as
ttl. - @fastify/autoload v5.5.0
Videos
- My talk at JetBrains JavaScript 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfRQ5zhYuJE
Articles
- Too much efficiency makes everything worse: overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart’s law - coming from the amazing C J Silverio - This got me to rethink at my times in University of my concept of studying vs preparing for the exam. The latter was easier.
- The evolution of scalable CSS
- Mastodon on your own domain without hosting a server - This is how I configured my nodeland.dev domain to act as a redirect to my mastodon account.
Protecting your community in Open Source
Here are a few interesting readings about how to license your new Open Source project and protect the community and yourself at the same time:
As the CTO of Platformatic, I greatly pondered the problem. I concluded that adopting the Developer Certification of Origin is the best guarantee I can give anyone willing to contribute to Platformatic.