Tag: Collaboration

Announcing The NodeSource-GitHub Partnership

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NODESOURCE PARTNERS WITH GITHUB
For Immediate Release

NodeSource enhances Node.js application security with the NCM integration for GitHub Deployment Protection Rules.

[Seattle, WA, April 13th, 2023] – NodeSource, a leader in Node.js application management, monitoring, and security, is excited to announce our partnership as a launch partner for Deployment Protection Rules with GitHub Actions, the world’s largest software development platform, to integrate Node Certified Modules (NCM) directly into the GitHub Marketplace. This integration brings enhanced security capabilities to the development process in Node.js applications, mitigating vulnerabilities and ensuring compliance with licensing requirements.

Node.js applications and services heavily rely on open-source Node packages for their source code. However, many of these packages may have publicly disclosed vulnerabilities often ignored or overlooked by developers, leaving applications at risk of malicious code execution and data leaks. To address this challenge, NodeSource has developed NCM, a powerful tool that scans for vulnerabilities, tracks package dependencies, and ensures compliance with licensing requirements.

“By enabling partners like NodeSource to create Deployment Protection Rules for users of GitHub Actions, organizations can now leverage NodeSource’s vulnerability management tools to identify security risks and maintain compliance before their applications are deployed to production. These improvements and new controls underscore GitHub’s commitment to empowering developers while enhancing governance, code quality, and security within GitHub Actions.” – Jamie Jones, GitHub VP of Technical Partnerships & Field Services. With NCM GitHub App for [Deployment ProtectionRules]https://github.blog/2023-04-20-announcing-github-actions-deployment-protection-rules-now-in-public-beta, developers can easily add NCM to their repositories, configure organization-wide rules for vulnerability scanning and approval processes.

With the integration of NCM for GitHub Deployment Protection Rules, users can now easily add and configure the NCM app into their GitHub repositories. This allows developers to seamlessly incorporate NCM into their workflow, with every deployment being analyzed and approved or rejected based on organization-configured rules for NCM. NCM provides a comprehensive report for every Pull Request, helping developers identify and mitigate security risks during code reviews. Check the NCM GitHub App.

“NodeSource is committed to providing the Node.js community with the tools and capabilities needed to secure their applications and mitigate risks associated with open-source packages,” said __Russ Whitman, CEO of NodeSource__. “Our partnership with GitHub further strengthens our mission, allowing users to easily access and utilize NCM within their GitHub Actions workflow, ensuring that their Node.js applications remain secure and reliable.”

NodeSource’s NCM also works offline, providing flexibility and convenience for developers in various development environments. NCM offers a comprehensive solution for managing Node.js application dependencies and assessing security vulnerabilities, license concerns, code risks, and code quality.

“Security is a top priority for NodeSource and our community of developers. We are thrilled to be a launch partner for GitHub Deployment Protection Rules and integrate NCM into GitHub Actions, providing our users with a powerful tool for securing their Node.js applications,” said __Adrian Estrada, VP of Technology of NodeSource__. “With NCM’s capabilities seamlessly integrated into GitHub Deployment Protection Rules, developers can now easily track and manage their package dependencies, ensuring that their applications remain secure and compliant.”

Node.js application security is of utmost importance, especially in today’s threat landscape, where supply chain attacks are becoming more prevalent. By leveraging NCM’s capabilities within their GitHub Actions workflows, developers can significantly reduce the risk of vulnerabilities in their Node.js applications, ensuring that their codebase remains secure and reliable.

About NodeSource:

NodeSource is a leading provider of Node.js application management solutions, Node.js Support and services, helping organizations successfully scale and secure their Node.js applications. Node Certified Modules (NCM) is a comprehensive tool that offers visibility, security, and governance for managing Node.js application dependencies. With its powerful features, NCM ensures that Node.js applications remain secure, reliable, and compliant with licensing requirements. For more information, visit www.nodesource.com.

About GitHub:

GitHub is the world’s largest software development platform, providing a collaborative environment for millions of developers to build, test, and deploy their software. GitHub offers many tools and integrations for efficient software development and secure collaboration. For more information, visit www.github.com.

Media Contact:
Russ Whitman
CEO NodeSource
[email protected]

Interview With Italo José Core committer at @herbsjs

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@ItaloJosé is Microsoft MVP in the Node.js category and works at NodeSource as a Software Engineer; He organizes CityJS Brazil.

We are thrilled to be part of developing powerful tools like N|Solid. We are immensely proud of our engineers who have dedicated their time and expertise to support the open-source ecosystem. This is our way of giving voice and visibility to the projects they are passionate about.

We want to recognize Italo José’s work with Herb.js on this occasion. He has been working on the Herbs.js project since 2020, where he developed the initial versions of the CLI, made significant contributions to numerous repositories, and mentored new contributors.

NS: What benefits does Herbs.js provide?

IJ: Different from other frameworks that help you to write a better infrastructure layer, like the API, database layer, documentation, and tests. The Herbs.js want to help you avoid writing it and focus on what matters, the domain’s code. How do we do it? We read your use case and provide you with the infrastructure; this way, you can save more than 50% of the time developing a server-side application.

It’s good for the business and developers that will stop writing boring and repetitive code for every project.

NS: How can I use Herbs.js to improve my development process?

IJ: The first step is writing your entities and use cases using the @herbsjs/herbs library, besides you have a more organized and readable use cases’ code. After that, you can add our glues(other libraries) that will read your use case and provide you the infrastructure code like rest or GraphQL APIs, documentation, repositories layer and more.

NS: What are the most popular features of Herbs.js?

IJ: Our CLI, the herbs2rest libraries.
The CLI, you know, helps you to generate and maintain a project using the Herbs.js. The herbs shelf reads your use cases and provides human documentation (this is my favorite).

The herbs2rest plugin reads your use case and provides a configured express instance containing all endpoints, an error handling layer, and auth layer for you.

These are the three most popular, but we have plugins for GraphQL, databases, tests, and more.

NS: How does Herbs.js simplify the development process?

IJ: Besidesprevents you writing 80% of the infrastructure code; we provide you with and structured way to write the use cases that allow you to maintain your code self-documented and organized in steps; it’s interesting because this way, new developers and non-developers can understand in a fast way what is happening in your code, it allows for example, project owners validate your use case rule for going to production.

Besides, we save time by avoiding writing the “repetitive” infrastructure code in all projects in our lives.

NS: How user-friendly is Herbs.js?

IJ: It’s pretty simple; as I mentioned in question 2, you write your entities and use case using the @herbsjs/herbs, and after that, just pass it for the glues, so the magic happens.

We assume you want to know more about this project. In that case, we invite you to review this amazing keynote that Italo left for the Community at CityJS Conference: Do you really code domain-oriented systems?

Want to contribute to an OS Project?

At NodeSource we released a project to compare the main APMs and thus help developers make decisions with real data. Here you can view the project and contribute directly to our GitHub repository.

If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected] or on Twitter @nodesource. To get the best out of Node.js, try N|Solid SaaS #KnowYourNode

Vite 4.0 released

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#​618 — December 9, 2022

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JavaScript Weekly

Vite 4.0 Released — From the same creator as Vue.js, Vite is an exciting piece of frontend tooling offering lots of goodies out of the box: fast hot module replacement, instant server starts, optimized builds with Rollup, TypeScript and JSX support (more on why to use Vite here). You can even give it a quick spin online via vite.new.

Evan You and Vite Contributors

Anjana Vakil on the JavaScript Fundamentals — This video course covers the core skills needed to become a professional JavaScript programmer, including writing reusable code with functions, conditionals, fetching data from APIs, and more. It’s everything you need to continue your journey to become effective at JavaScript.

Frontend Masters sponsor

npm Gains New Security Features — GitHub continues its work in making the npm ecosystem safer. Two new things: granular access tokens so package owners can better control access to publishing workflows, and a new code explorer to look directly at the contents of packages from the official npm site.

Monish Mohan (GitHub)

Console Ninja: console.log Output Right Next to Your Code — A VS Code extension that displays console.log output and runtime errors next to your code. Jack Herrington recorded ▶️ a neat 6 minute intro showing it off recently.

Wallaby.js Team

IN BRIEF:

There’s a React documentary in production – ▶️ here’s the trailer.

AWS has unveiled Step Functions Distributed Map, a way you can run hugely parallel (up to 10,000 simultaneous executions) operations (written in JavaScript, perhaps) over data and documents stored on S3.

A quick look back 27 years to the launch of JavaScript in 1995.

📊 D3 7.7, the latest version of the popular data visualization framework, is out and I wanted to recommend looking at co-creator Mike Bostock’s notebooks if you want inspiration on using D3, a look at new features, etc. He posts interesting stuff.

The JS debugger in the latest VS Code release now supports console.profile for CPU profiling code, as well as nested sourcemaps.

RELEASES:

Rome 11 – Linter in urbe novissima sunt.

Storybook 7.0 beta 0

Rollup 3.7 – ES module bundler.

xv 2.0 – Zero-config Node test runner.

Nx 15.3 (A huge news update post.)

Ember 4.9

Bun 0.3 – The challenger JS runtime.

📒 Articles & Tutorials

Sandboxing with Partytown — Partytown provides a way to run third party scripts within a Web Worker rather than on the main thread. Could this be used for sandboxing? Weston tried it out and concluded it’s not quite there.

Weston Ruter

Build a Mobile-Responsive Telehealth Pager App Using Stream’s Chat API — Build a responsive chat app with emojis/reactions, built-in GIF support, ability to edit/delete messages, direct & group chat, and more.

Stream sponsor

Is Prisma Better Than Your ‘Traditional’ ORM? — Prisma has become a very popular ORM option in the Node space in recent years. The creator of the Practica Node starter app considers if Prisma makes sense as a universal ‘go to’ ORM. No, but..

Yoni Goldberg

When to Use gRPC vs GraphQL — A balanced comparison of two popular API protocols to see where each works best.

Loren Sands-Ramshaw

Breakpoints and console.log is the Past, Time Travel is the Future — 15x faster JavaScript debugging than with breakpoints and console.log, now with support for Vitest.

Wallaby.js sponsor

▶  A Discussion on Optimizing Your JavaScript with Rust — A chat with Vercel’s Lee Robinson at the recent Next.js conference.

Ben Popper podcast

🛠 Code & Tools

Codux: A Visual IDE for React — One of the co-founders of Wix introduces a new standalone tool to accelerate the React development process. It currently only supports Chromium-based browsers but you can take it for a test drive or learn more from its homepage.

Nadav Abrahami (Wix)

Harlem 3.0: Simple Extensible State Management for Vue 3 — Provides a simple functional API for creating, reading, and mutating state.

Andrew Courtice

Open Source Firebase Alternative for Web, Mobile, and Flutter Devs

Appwrite sponsor

JS Image Carver: Content-Aware Image Resizer and Object Remover — Uses the seam carving approach (if you’ve used ‘Content Aware Scale’ in Photoshop, you’ve seen it). The live demo on this one is fun to watch.

Oleksii Trekhleb

Civet: The CoffeeScript of TypeScript? — If you liked CoffeeScript back in the day, here’s the same idea in a modern TypeScript-oriented form.

Daniel Moore

Maska 2.1: Zero-Dependency Input Mask — Happy in vanilla situations, but can also integrate with Vue 2/3. GitHub repo.

Alexander Shabunevich

node-calls-python: Call Python from Node — One use case the author mentions is plugging into Python’s rich ecosystem of machine learning tools.

Menyhért Hegedűs

reduced.to: Open Source URL Shortening App Built with Qwik — The app itself is live at reduced.to but you might find it interesting as an example of a frontend built using the Qwik framework.

Ori Granot

📺 Yesterday, This Dot Media published Qwik’s creator Misko Hevery giving ▶️ a live coding introduction to Qwik – a useful way to get up to speed.

💻 Jobs

Software Engineer — Stimulus is a social platform started by Sticker Mule to show what’s possible if your mission is to increase human happiness. Join our engineering team.

Stimulus

Senior UI Dev — Join us and innovate with MicroFrontends, custom Node tools, build systems (Webpack/Github Actions), TypeScript, React, and more with a11y and DX in mind.

Vertex Inc

Find JavaScript Jobs with Hired — Create a profile on Hired to connect with hiring managers at growing startups and Fortune 500 companies. It’s free for job-seekers.

Hired

Spacetime 7.3
↳ Lightweight JavaScript timezone library.

Partytown 0.7.3
↳ Run intensive third-party scripts in a worker.

Splitter 1.4
↳ React component for split views.

reveal-md 5.4
↳ Reveal.js presentations from Markdown files.

Mongoose 6.8
↳ MongoDB object modeling library.

React Tooltip 5.0