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NodeSource
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NodeSource is the company blog at nodesource.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2014, 58 different Hacker News readers have linked it 94 times, most often “Node by Numbers 2017 – NodeSource”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- /products/certified-modules3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-08-01
- Node by Numbers 2017 – NodeSource3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-02-06
- Is Guy Fieri in Your Node.js Packages? (2016)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-08-17
- 11 Simple Npm Tricks That Will Knock Your Wombat Socks Off3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-08-29
- The State of Desktop Applications in Node.js3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-12-10
- N|Solid. Enterprise Node. Finally2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-22
- Installing Node.js tutorial2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-04-25
- Security Tips to Keep Express from Getting Pwned2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-12
- 15 Essential Packages to Get Started with Electron2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-09
- Essential Steps: Long Term Support for Node.js2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-08-03
What Hacker News says?
related: Guy Fieri in node https://nodesource.com/blog/is-guy-fieri-in-your-node-js-pac...
Comment linking /blog/is-guy-fieri-in-your-node-js-packages/
on “How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%”Submitted Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast as a story · 336 points
HN discussionThe caret character is a specification in NPM, not semver. It's designed to work within the semantic versioning rules to ensure you get the latest version which includes bug fixes, but also won't include breaking changes. For example, ^1.3.2 will allow anything greater than 1.3.2 but not 2.0.0. It also has special behaviour that makes it more strict for projects with a major version of 0. If your dependencies follow…
Comment linking /blog/semver-tilde-and-caret/
on “I've Just Liberated My Modules”Submitted The State of Desktop Applications in Node.js as a story · 138 points
HN discussionHere is a timeline diagram showing how the LTS and Stable branches will work: https://nodesource.com/assets/blog/essential-steps-lts/nodej... From this NodeSource post: https://nodesource.com/blog/essential-steps-long-term-suppor...
Comment linking /blog/essential-steps-long-term-support-for-nodejs
on “Node v4.0.0”Submitted Understanding the Node.js Event Loop as a story · 135 points
HN discussionThis bothers me as well. Even tasks as simple as adding a repository are now being "improved" with a curl | sudo bash style setup[1]. However, installing from source with make was (and remains) a mess. It may work if you're dedicated to maintaining one application and (part of) its stack. But even then it usually leads to out of date software and tracking versions by hand. Many people have this weird aversion to doi…
Comment linking /blog/nodejs-v012-iojs-and-the-nodesource-linux-repositories
on “The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers”Submitted N|Solid – Enterprise Node as a story · 78 points
HN discussionI think the NodeJS Foundation ( https://nodejs.org/en/ ) and project are really successful and putting them under the auspices of the LF helped resolve a lot of community issues (including the io.js fork): https://nodesource.com/node-by-numbers I'm not familiar enough with Express to comment on it.
Comment linking /node-by-numbers
on “RethinkDB joins the Linux Foundation: What Happens Next”Submitted The Basics of Package.json in Node.js and Npm as a story · 46 points
HN discussionIt might be worth trying to get to 4.2.0, which was the first LTS [1] release (due to the change in versioning, that's only six months older than 4.2.0). 1: https://nodesource.com/blog/essential-steps-long-term-suppor...
Comment linking /blog/essential-steps-long-term-support-for-nodejs/
on “Node.js v6.0 Released”Submitted C++ Add-ons for Node.js v4 as a story · 26 points
HN discussionThere are attempts like https://nodesource.com/products/certified-modules but do you trust the ratings if they don't have control over those modules?
Comment linking /products/certified-modules
on “Malicious crossenv package on npm”Submitted Is Guy Fieri in Your Node.js Packages? (2016) as a story · 17 points
HN discussionhttps://nodesource.com/products/nsolid-aws-lambda
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on “New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Share Common Components”Submitted Hello, Certified Modules – The Future of Trust in Node.js Dependencies as a story · 16 points
HN discussionI’ve not used it but https://nodesource.com/products/certified-modules
Comment linking /products/certified-modules
on “Postmortem for Malicious Packages Published on July 12th, 2018”Submitted 15 Essential Packages to Get Started with Electron as a story · 14 points
HN discussionThis release timeframe was announced quite a while ago. As others have mentioned the quick jump from 4 to 5 was primarily due to the io.js convergence. Expect future major releases on a 6 month cadence with LTS releases every 12 months https://nodesource.com/blog/essential-steps-long-term-suppor...
Comment linking /blog/essential-steps-long-term-support-for-nodejs
on “Node.js 5.0 Released”Submitted Is Guy Fieri in your node packages? as a story · 12 points
HN discussionNot unless you want a lot of people upset that their dependencies aren't installing: "Myles Borins (@thealphanerd) recently ran citgm with yarn, and shared the results. It was 25 minutes faster than npm, but 20 modules failed to install." ( https://nodesource.com/blog/the-definitive-guide-to-the-firs... )
Comment linking /blog/the-definitive-guide-to-the-first-three-days-of-yarn-and-npm/
on “Node.js v7.0.0”Submitted Installing Node.js tutorial as a story · 8 points
HN discussionA LTS version is maintained for 36 months total. (6 months regular release support, 18 months active LTS, 12 months maintenance LTS) For details, see https://nodesource.com/blog/understanding-how-node-js-releas... .
Comment linking /blog/understanding-how-node-js-release-lines-work/
on “October Brings Node.js 10.x to LTS and Node.js 11 to Current”Submitted 7 Convenient CI/CD Tools for Your Node.js Projects as a story · 8 points
HN discussion10.x soon will get a LTS badge [1], so we can expect 10.x (not 11.x) will be added into 19.04 apt repository. nvm is probably the easiest way to install it, but of course, you can do it manually: 1. mkdir -p ~/apps/ 2. Download tar.gz and extract it to ~/apps/ 3. Change $PATH variable to include the bin directory NODEJS_DIR="node-v8.12.0-linux-x64" # Change version to appropriate export PATH=$PATH:${HOME}/apps/${NOD…
Comment linking /blog/announcing-node-js-snap-linux-users/
on “Node 11.0”Submitted NodeSource N|Solid v2.0 as a story · 8 points
HN discussionTypically Node.js is for high I/O web applications. Thanks to the wonderful asynchronicity of javascript (callbacks "let me know when this is ready/done") it's really wonderful for browser-based programs. However, there is growing discussion about using Node.js for desktop applications. Please see https://nodesource.com/blog/node-desktop-applications
Comment linking /blog/node-desktop-applications
on “Ask HN: Why Node.js and for which type of App?”Submitted 6 of the Most Exciting ES6 Features in Node.js v6 LTS as a story · 7 points
HN discussionN|Solid is free for development and can be downloaded from https://nodesource.com/products/nsolid
Comment linking /products/nsolid
on “Is Guy Fieri in your node packages?”Submitted N|Solid 2.2 Lands with More Metrics and Effortless StatsD Integrations as a story · 5 points
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