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This week’s news includes Node.js 12: The future of server-side JavaScript, on-demand Node.js Best Practices: Error Handling and JavaScript, JavaScript…. Rocks You!

Check this week’s Need to Node to keep up to date with the latest news in Node.js project, events, and awesome articles. You are always welcome to collaborate and participate!

What’s New in the Node.js Project

• Node.js 12: The future of server-side JavaScript a useful summary of Node.js 12 exciting improvements like ES6 module support, better application security, and quicker startup times.
• How to use ECMAScript modules with Node.js - by Diogo Souza
• In case you missed it, Understanding Worker Threads in Node.js - by Liz Parody
• Check out this pull request to find out a useful list of questions and answers of Express.
• There is a long pull request for updating the Quic protocol to ngtcp2.
• There will be a release 1.7.0 in the node-addon-api soon. In this issue you can check the progress.
• Upcoming metadata changes in V8 7.6 requires the adjustments in llnode. Check out this issue for details.

Awesome Articles, Links, and Resources

• In case you were not able to attend, check out on-demand Node.js Best Practices: Error Handling - by Liz Parody
• Finally… A Post on Finally in Promises A quick explanation of when finally will fire when using a promise - always. - by Sarah Drasner
• JavaScript, JavaScript…. Rocks You! A fun, musically-packed look at how to recreate the sounds of effects pedals in JavaScript to play with audio in real-time via the Web Audio API - by Vitalii Bobrov
• Quark: A Software 'Sketchbook' for Node, HTML and CSS Experiments a software tool specifically designed to help you create projects written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with native desktop app-like capabilities - by Nishkal Kashyap Async Await Error Handling in JavaScript Attempts to clear up some confusion caused when handling errors in async/await scenarios - by Valeri Karpov
• npm Enterprise: Delivering More Secure JavaScript Development announcing the first major update to npmE, delivering a rich set of new security, compliance, and developer experience features for their customers - by Susannah Robin

One Last Thing...

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