Why do developers skip writing tests for some code? Perhaps because it relies on the file system or an external API. Perhaps because we think it’s too difficult, or a test account to an external API is not guaranteed to be available. Perhaps it’s because an external API may not be accessible from the CI…

I am so excited to be able to release the new version of readable-stream, v3! For all of you that might not know, readable-stream is the most downloaded module on NPM, and part of practically any dependency chain of any JavaScript application. readable-stream is a userland port of the Node.js require(‘stream’) module, so that module authors could have a stable…

If you’ve not heard of Pino before, it’s a low-overhead, newline-delimited-JSON logger with close compatibility to Bunyan. The idea behind Pino is to provide the lowest overhead JSON logging possible in order to keep Node’s event-loop as free as possible to handle the most critical work, such as request-handling. For information on Pino, in general, see Pino –…

Building a Q&A machine learning model, for answering White House Press Briefing questions about Brexit, using Latent Dirichlet Allocation. Image: unsplash-logopalesa

Back in January, we announced the Node Clinic project and the first tool in Clinic, Doctor. After many intensive months of work by the team, we’re more than a little excited to announce Clinic Bubbleprof! Bubbleprof has a unique new approach to profiling your Node code so that you can visualise exactly where and how that code is busy….

How Web Push Notifications can help increse the user engagement in PWAs

Attendees who made it along to our Node.js Dublin meetup featuring author and fintech superstar David Gonzalez earlier this year were given an excellent introduction to serverless and Node.js

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How the introduction of the CSS in JS can improve the first render time of a Progressive Web Application

How the Payment Request API can help provide in-app purchases in PWAs