npm weekly #172: Get illuminated on Lumie in our latest convo, help us increase diabetes awareness, and see a very good dog
Talking LEGOs and Lumie in our latest npm convo
For our latest npm convo, we caught up with Alexandre Levacher to chat about Lumie, a lightweight module that lets you set up scalable controllers architecture. Read about how Alexandre uses npm for his Rails and Sails-inspired side project on our blog.
npm.community Corner
So much is happening on npm.community! If you haven’t had time to take a deep dive into tink, Kat put together an awesome FAQ that you can check out here. Kat’s also been busy writing updates on tink in a series called tink: State of the Unwinder. Read the latest post here and get involved!
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What we’re reading: Zeit introduces Now 2.0
Do you enjoy really well crafted software that just works? If you haven’t tried Now before, now would be a very good time. The folks at Zeit released version 2.0 last week, so give it a try.
Meet Aly
We’re very excited to introduce you to one of the newest members of npm, Aly Fulton. Originally coming from a Ruby/Rails background, Aly brings their wealth of experience with internal tooling to npm as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE). Aly also brings a reputation for being “Most likely to replace Bill Gates,” as voted on by their former high school peers. Welcome Aly!
Help Beyond Type One increase diabetes awareness
npm has partnered with Beyond Type One to celebrate Sir Frederick Banting’s birthday. You can pitch in by taking a few seconds to sign his digital birthday card:
Learn npx on Egghead.io
There’s a new course you might want to check out on Egghead.io. Taught by Elijah Manor, Execute npm Package Binaries with the npx Package Runner is free for the first week. Each lesson is a few minutes long and will help you gain a thorough understanding of all that you can do with npx. Enjoy!
Look at this very good dog
Maybe you just needed to see a happy dog, or know that somewhere out there, a furry friend is really enjoying some npm swag. Either way, we thought we’d share this four-legged npm fan with you.
