July 27, 2021

Pino@7.0.0-rc.1 and -rc.2 and other Adventures in Nodeland - Issue #20

Hi Folks, this week I’m in the mountains with my family :)! I’ve been a bit late in preparing everything for this issue that sum up last week… I hope you will like it nevertheless! There might be a lighter issue next week.. we’ll see!7

Pino

We finally released the first (and second) release candidates of Pino v7. It includes a new transport system built on top of worker threads. Check it out!

As I said we also released pino@7.0.0-rc.2 because… we found a bad bug that would make your “demo” processes not work. I ended up extending on-exit-leak-free to hook into beforeExit as well as exit. Read up if you are curious:

Undici

Last week I spent some time tracking a mysterious bug that increased the time taken to run my tests by 10 seconds. It turns out it was an uncleared timer in case of an error. I’m really glad I was able to solve this nasty bug:

News

I really like Vite and the speed of development it brings to frontend dev… guess what will happen when Bryce combine it with Elevently?

Would you like to transform Markdown? This article sparkled my curiosity and I wanted to build a new static web site generator!

My friends at NodeSource have just released the SaaS version of N|Solid! Wow, this was a very big change for them! Check it out:

Chief Software Architect

I got promoted to Chief Software Architect. I’m not sure how this will change things long term, but I’m hiring a Node.js Core Engineer for my team. If you are interested, check out https://grnh.se/5c39f3d43us.

Thanks

Here from the mountains I can only reflect and be thankful for everything the Node.js and JavaScript communities brought to my life. Thank to you all.