npm weekly #208: Catch up on our latest webinar, check out treeverse and unpkg!
Missed our latest webinar?
Earlier this week, npm CTO Ahmad Nassri shared some practical advice from deep in the trenches of enterprise JavaScript in the session, Enterprise JavaScript done right: the tools you love, the security you need. If you missed it, you can watch the video now.
Learn how to ensure your developers have what they need to ship safe code on time!
unpkg and the package browsing experience
Recently, unpkg billed as the global content delivery network for all things npm, got some updates. Check out the latest version to see the new GitHub-style package navigation, source code highlighting, and ta-da! Image previews. Enjoy!
Recommended project: Expressive Tea
Need to generate a RESTful service quickly? Expressive Tea is a simple library that allows you to do so through descriptive decorators and settings on top of ExpressJS and TypeScript. And that’s the tea, my friends.
What we’re reading: You, me and package.json
Not quite the follow up to You, Me and Dupree you might have hoped for, but a great read nonetheless. Fernando Larrañaga takes on not only the history of package.json, but also examines each component of the integral file. Check it out!
Welcome to the treeverse
Sometimes great tools just manifest themselves, as is the case with treeverse. While working on npm@7, Chief Open Technology Officer, Isaac Schlueter, discovered that while there were a lot of modules on npm to traverse trees, but they were all too opinionated for his particular use case. And thus, treeverse came to be. Go traversing and see for yourself.
npm.community Corner
Have an idea for how npm could work better? Want to tweak that one feature? Luckily, there’s an entire section of our community forum to discuss your Ideas. Head over to npm.community right now to read the ideas already out there and share yours!
Work on the world’s largest software repository
Curious about what it would be like to work on a product with 10 million+ users and over 40 billion software package downloads every month? We are currently looking for engineers, security pros, design folks and more.
See our open positions at npmjs.com/jobs.
Building amazing things together
The same tools that empower developers to work together on Open Source projects can make teams more efficient when collaborating on mission-critical applications.
Learn how npm Orgs can help your team!
But what about blarp.js?
