npm weekly #191: npm and WASM, we made FinTech Innovation Lab’s Class of 2019, plus npm via Gopher!
npm and WASM: How can we help?
Continuing the theme of WebAssembly news, last month the folks at WebAssembly SF posted a video featuring Laurie Voss, Chief Data Officer, speaking at their February event. His topic that evening was npm and WASM: how can we help? You can watch the presentation (approximately 30 minutes) to discover some early stats on WASM adoption and learn about npm’s plans to support WASM. Check it out!
Heading to Hawaii for LocoMoco
How lucky is Adam Baldwin, Head of npm Security, that he gets to travel to Hawaii in two weeks to speak at this cool conference, LocoMocoSec? If you’re there, make sure you check out his talk “JavaScript Supply Chain Security” and say hi. Tickets are still available here!
Laurie will be speaking at the first-ever MagnoliaJS
New conference alert! MagnoliaJS is Mississippi’s first-ever JavaScript developer conference. In two weeks, Laurie Voss will be there to keynote the event. Tickets are still on sale — get yours here.
We made FinTech Innovation Lab’s Class of 2019
Yesterday, FinTech Innovation Labs, in partnership with Accenture and the Partnership Fund for New York City, announced their selection of 11 emerging technology companies to participate in this year’s FinTech Innovation Lab. npm will join other companies, like CloudFrame and Cyberwrite, in receiving mentorship from FinTech Innovation Lab’s partners, as well as product feedback and use case development.
npm Security suggests: Electronegativity
Looking for a way to identify misconfigurations and security anti-patterns in Electron-based applications? Meet Electronegativity, created by the folks at Doyensec. Electronegativity detects and mitigates potential weaknesses and implementation bugs when developing applications using Electron. This tool, from a team we trust, is definitely worth your time.
What we’re reading: Announcing Lucet!
More great news for WebAssembly! Last week, Fastly announced the open sourcing of Lucet, Fastly’s native WebAssembly compiler and runtime. Lucet already supports the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) and has been successfully shipping in the four major browsers since early 2017. For all the details on Lucet’s announcement, read the full post.
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Recommended package: simple-graphql-assembler
Fans of Apollo Server and GraphQL will appreciate this packager. simple-graphql-assember creates type definitions and resolvers for the community-maintained, open source Apollo server. Curious about this project? They’re looking for contributions, so take a peek.
No joke, use npm with Gopher!
You might be inclined to think that the announcement of npm being accessible by Gopher amounts to little more than a prank. But you’d be wrong, because apparently real Gopher things being released on April 1 is now a thing! Go check it out.
