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Node Congress

Node Congress 2022

You can check the slides for James' talk <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/13gAh3Pw8u5fA2lIFwLoYuwB7hheBD67F/view?usp=sharing">here</a>. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

Towards a Standard Library for JavaScript Runtimes

James Snell

Static websites give you all sorts of great benefits. You don’t have to worry about security or scalability. They are simple to cache, cheap to host and a breeze to maintain! But sometimes I miss all the fun things you can do with just a little bit of state! Combining the Cloudflare Pages platform with Durable Objects and the HTMLRewriter API, you can have your cake and eat it too! We’ll replicate a full WordPress experience with comments, top posts, like buttons and a page counter. All on Cloudflare’s free static site hosting platform. You can check the slides for Jonathan's talk <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vTnimCVlQtNo8Z27-PoYGVBoLDz81XFU-ix5jehQEY7eKI37cnwNx-LXJxwzf6AcOvhDEOq3RTDpnBH/pub?start=false&amp;loop=false&amp;delayms=3000">here</a>. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

Static first websites with Cloudflare Workers

Jonathan Kuperman

Edge functions are pushing the limit of serverless computing – but with new tools, come new challenges. Due to their limitations, edge functions don't allow talking to popular databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL. In this talk, you will learn how you can connect and interact with your database from Cloudflare Workers using the Prisma Data Proxy. You can check the slides for Alex's talk <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1b_EYdhlifC1DU8M7JzsGPgjDv9Kijf80/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=108102216742006062181&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true">here</a>.  <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

Database Access on the Edge with Cloudflare Workers & Prisma

Alex Ruheni

Errors happen to every programmer. Devs have different choices: suppress it, notify the user, report to the team, ignore it or write code to handle the error. In this talk, you will learn all the important aspects of the Node.js error system, the types of errors, different ways to deliver an error, and patterns to improve error handling - with examples! <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

Mastering Error Handling Node.js

Lizz Parody

In the early years of Node.js, diagnostics and debugging were considerable pain points. Modern versions of Node have improved considerably in these areas. Features like async stack traces, heap snapshots, and CPU profiling no longer require third party modules or modifications to application source code. This talk explores the various diagnostic features that have recently been built into Node. You can check the slides for Colin's talk <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nH56Y5N5MDVU_Bhwl5XcgfQuLya--7mV/view?usp=sharing">here</a>.  <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

Out of the Box Node.js Diagnostics

Colin Ihrig

We've got a JavaScript frontend hitting a Node (Express.js) backend. We'll go through how to know which party is responsible for which error, what the impact is, and all the context needed to solve it. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

Monitoring Errors and Slowdowns with a JS Frontend and Node Backend

Chris Stavitsky

NodeJS is a server-side representation of Javascript that can work well as an application's backend and can be run on various servers and infrastructures. In this talk, we'll be going through the journey of how Nodejs has been deployed over the years via various infrastructures from PaaS to Containers. You can check the slides for Shedrack's talk <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1olBLlCmJKzr-0sYw6olVJP6Nju4aDiQl/view?usp=sharing">here</a>.  <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

The Evolution of Deploying Node on Servers and Platforms

Shedrack Akintayo

Traditional security testing for Node and JS apps has focused on the front-end, but actual security issues most often lie in the backing REST API. Join StackHawk co-founder Scott Gerlach for a quick overview of why you need to rethink how you test your JS apps and how StackHawk can help you find and fix security bugs fast. You can check the slides for Scotts's talk <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nRupxCNMRXs3aCi_ymS_EMahjCwjmx8n/view?usp=sharing">here</a>. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

Automated Application Security Testing with StackHawk

Scott Gerlach

In this short lightning talk I’ll register a domain and demonstrate how to use the DNSimple NodeJS API client to register a domain name and set up the DNS needed to make it point to a web service in just a few minutes. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

How to Register a Domain Using Node and the DNSimple API in 5 min

Anthony Eden

JavaScript was born in the browser, Node brought it to the server embracing unix primitives and async I/O and lately Cloudflare Workers &amp; Deno Deploy have brought it to the edge. Let’s take a look at where JavaScript runtimes are heading and how it will shape the software we write. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

The Future of JavaScript Runtimes

Aaron O'Mullan

Can Deno run apps and libraries authored for Node.js? What are the tradeoffs? How does it work? What’s next?

Node.js Compatibility in Deno

Bartek Iwanczuk

In this talk, we'll get a live coded demo of building custom hand-rolled authentication. When you have the right tools (and we do), authentication can be quite simple and secure. This is more (and better) than just: "Install this library and you're good to go." When we're done we'll have our own auth code that can evolve with our ever-changing requirements without a need to learn some library-specific APIs. We'll be leveraging the Web Platform the way it was meant to be done to give us simple and secure server-side authentication for the web. You can check the slides for Kent's talk <a href="https://slides.com/kentcdodds/server-side-auth-with-remix-prisma-and-the-web-platform">here</a> as well as <a href="https://github.com/kentcdodds/node-congress-auth">demo code</a>. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

Server-side Auth with Remix, Prisma, and the Web Platform

Kent C. Dodds

JSON modules have been an important feature of the JavaScript ecosystem for a long time, and it’s started to take a new shape with there new ESM import syntax. Let’s review the history of JSON support in Node.js, its relationship with web compatibility, and how we can make (finally) it happen. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

The Road to JSON Import Support in Node.js

Antoine du Hamel

Do you know what’s really going on in your node_modules folder? Software supply chain attacks have exploded over the past 12 months and they’re only accelerating in 2022 and beyond. We’ll dive into examples of recent supply chain attacks and what concrete steps you can take to protect your team from this emerging threat. You can check the slides for Feross' talk <a href="https://speakerdeck.com/feross/its-a-jungle-out-there-whats-really-going-on-inside-your-node-modules-folder">here</a>. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

It's a Jungle Out There: What's Really Going on Inside Your Node_Modules Folder

Feross Aboukhadijeh

Verdaccio is an open-source lightweight private proxy registry made in JavaScript with an entirely optional configuration that allows you to publish Node.js private packages and proxy from other remote registries. In this talk, you will learn five ways to take advantage of Verdaccio to improve your workflows and productivity. You can check the slides for Juan's talk <a href="https://speakerdeck.com/jotadeveloper/five-ways-of-taking-advantage-of-verdaccio-your-private-and-proxy-node-dot-js-registry">here</a><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dv0ZOFDTitrUHJfJAgKs6YiO4M8Fxwcs/view"></a><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dv0ZOFDTitrUHJfJAgKs6YiO4M8Fxwcs/view"></a>. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

Five Ways of Taking Advantage of Verdaccio, Your Private and Proxy Node.js Registry

Juan Picado

In the post Moore’s Law era, due to limitations of the hardware, we need to squeeze more performance from the existing hardware. That means that the native code provides the best performance. However, the prevalence of native code on the server-side presents challenges to application safety and manageability. The rise and advent of Rust and WebAssembly offers new ways for developers to write high performance yet safe Node.js applications. In this talk, I will cover the basics of Rust and WebAssembly, as well showcase how to go about their integration with Node.js. You will learn how and when to design a hybrid web application. How can you code the high performance functions in Rust in a Web Assembly virtual machine and finally how to tie everything together in a Node.js JavaScript application. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

High Performance Node.js Powered by Rust and WebAssembly 

Shivay Lamba

Ever wondered what happens after you hit npm install and go to grab a coffee? Let's deep dive into Npm and Yarn installation process, and how you can put this knowledge into practice. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

The Secret Life of Package Managers

Tally Barak

Orders of magnitude matter. Things don't go up order of one every time. Organising people in a group requires disseminating information and its interpretation and, most importantly, its distribution. Remote working and asynchronous collaboration have become the norm, meaning that distributed teams have taken their silos of knowledge with them. The impact of this has compounded any organisations experiencing a skills gap with a skills distribution problem, increasing the importance of good documentation and transparent interaction processes. In this session, we'll go over the fundamentals of requirements engineering, looking at how orders of magnitude scale alongside the expansion of scope and additional requirements. Lastly, we'll discuss how you can apply elements of platform thinking to your everyday projects. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

Orders & Magnitude

Jessica Cregg

Compiling (or transpiling) modern JavaScript to older ECMAScript-compatible versions has allowed the web to evolve incredibly fast while making us happier developers. But how does the compilation process work? How can we write our own Babel plugins? Let's find out! <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

Understanding JavaScript Compilation

Michele Riva

I was seeing some code that was written a few years ago, that was considered the "super clean" and "intuitive", and I realised that the JavaScript that we write today is very different from the one that we used to write just five years ago. If you've been around for some time, you know the feeling of writing "this = that", and taking days debugging why that variable is set to null. The new node syntax, with esm, new bundlers, faster refreshes. The code was never so easy to write and understand. You can check the slides for Pedro's talk <a href="https://node-like-its-2022.vercel.app/">here</a>. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

Write Node like it's 2022

Pedro Filho

Modern browsers come equipped with three types of Web Workers: Dedicated, Shared, and Service Workers. While each one offers the ability to execute JavaScript in a separate thread, their differing APIs and capabilities mean that any given task usually has an ideal worker. Learn the benefits of each worker and how to choose the right one. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

A Comparison of Web Workers

Thomas Hunter II

Serverless technologies help us build better and more scalable applications in the cloud. It's a powerful paradigm that allows us to focus on creating business values and letting the cloud provider handle the undifferentiated heavy-liftings such as managing the underlying infrastructure. In this session, Yan Cui would take us through many of the lessons that he has learnt from running serverless workloads in production over the last five years, including development tips, testing and observability strategies, and much more. You can check the slides for Yan's talk <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cHZIF9E82VxEAd6s_YZ_d-UexuRWWsrX/view?usp=sharing">here</a>. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

Serverless in Production, Lessons from the Trenches

Yan Cui

Blitz was created as a fullstack React framework, inspired Ru on Rails, and with a goal to make you as productive as possible! It features a ""Zero-API"" data layer abstraction, has authn &amp; authz out of the box and a few more exciting features. However, we recently decided to pivot Blitz to a framework agnostic toolkit, which means a huge and thrilling change for the Blitz community. During this talk, I will introduce the core concepts, talk about the why &amp; how of the pivot, and give you a glimpse of Blitz's future. You can check the slides for Aleksandra's talk <a href="https://slides.com/aleksandrasikora/blitzjs">here</a>. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

A Glimpse Into the Future of Fullstack Development with Blitz.js

Aleksandra Sikora

What are some of the problems of the current Node core HTTP client and how can we move beyond them? A talk about how undici tries to bring the next step in client side HTTP in Node. Includes some practical advice to using undici and common pitfalls with some commentary in regards to API design decisions and future plans with some extra Fetch API bonus.a <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

Evolving the Node HTTP Client with undici

Robert Nagy

This workshop discusses the challenges Enterprises are facing when scaling the data tier to support multi-region deployments and serverless environments. Serverless edge functions and lightweight container orchestration enables applications and business logic to be easily deployed globally, often leaving the database as the latency and scaling bottleneck. Join us to understand how PolyScale.ai solves these scaling challenges intelligently caching database data at the edge, without sacrificing transactionality or consistency. Get hands on with PolyScale for implementation, query observability and global latency testing with edge functions. Table of contents<ul><li>        - Introduction to PolyScale.ai</li><li>        - Enterprise Data Gravity</li><li>        - Why data scaling is hard</li><li>        - Options for Scaling the data tier</li><li>        - Database Observability</li><li>        - Cache Management AI</li><li>        - Hands on with PolyScale.ai</li></ul> <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

Scaling Databases For Global Serverless Applications

Ben Hagan

Prisma is an open-source ORM for Node.js and TypeScript. In this workshop, you’ll learn the fundamental Prisma workflows to model data, perform database migrations and query the database to read and write data. You’ll also learn how Prisma fits into your application stack, building a REST API and a GraphQL API from scratch using SQLite as the database. Table of contents: - Setting up Prisma, data modeling &amp; migrations- Exploring Prisma Client to query the database- Building REST API routes with Express- Building a GraphQL API with Apollo Server <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

Database Workflows & API Development with Prisma

Nikolas Burk

“You’ll never believe where objects come from in JavaScript.” “These 10 languages are worse than JavaScript in asynchronous programming.” Let’s explore some aspects of JavaScript that you might take for granted in the clickbaitest nodecongress.com workshop. To attend this workshop you only need to be able to write and run NodeJS code on your computer. Both junior and senior developers are welcome. Objects are from Mars, functions are from Venus Let’s deep-dive into the ins and outs of objects and then zoom out to see modules from a different perspective. How many ways are there to create objects? Are they all that useful? When should you consider using them? If you’re now thinking “who cares?“, then this workshop is probably for you. Asynchronous JavaScript: the good? parts Let’s have an honest conversation. I mean… why, oh why, do we need to bear with all this BS? My guess is that it depends on perspective too. Let’s first assume a hard truth about it: it could be worse… then maybe we can start seeing the not-so-bad-even-great features of JavaScript regarding non-blocking programs. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

Back to the basics

Guillermo Gutierrez Almazor

Ready to kickstart your freelance career or just getting started on your freelance journey? You’re in the right spot. Learn the tricks of the trade from the industry’s most experienced freelancers. The independent talent movement is the future of work. If you’re considering leaving full-time employment for a career as a freelancer, now is the time to find your successful space in the independent talent workforce. More people are working freelance today than ever before, with the freelance marketplace now contributing $1.2 trillion to the US economy. Some of the most in-demand roles for freelancers right now are senior developers with professional experience in React, Python, Blockchain, QA, and Node.js. This workshop will help you design a sustainable and profitable full-time (or part-time) freelancing/contracting career. We will give you tools, tips, best practices, and help you avoid common pitfalls. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

How To Design A Sustainable Freelance/Contracting Career

Shane Ketterman

Alexander Weekes

We’ll go through setting up Sentry step--step to get visibility into our frontend and backend. Once integrated, we will track and triage errors + transactions surfaced Sentry from our services to understand why/where/how errors and slowdowns occurred within our application code. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

Tracking errors and slowdowns in Node + JavaScript using Sentry

Neil Manvar

Node.js has become an increasingly popular language to build and deploy backend APIs. In a world of legacy CMSs adopting decoupled implementations, plenty of frameworks have sprung up to classify themselves as "headless" CMSs, designed from the start to provide an easy way to personalize content models, administer permissions and authentication, and serve a content API quickly. Strapi, one of the leaders in this space, has recently released their v4 version of the framework, and with Platform.sh it can be deployed alongside a number of frontends within the same project, giving a drastically simplified development experience working with decoupled sites. In this workshop, we'll deploy a Strapi demo application, which has been configured to serve a restaurant review site. Piece piece you will add database services, tests, and frontends, all within the safety of isolated development environments. At the end, each user will have a functioning decoupled site, and some greater understanding of working with decoupled sites in production. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

Deploying a decoupled restaurant review site to production with Strapi and Platform.sh

Chad Carlson

This workshop will walk you through writing a module in TypeScript that can be consumed users of Deno, Node and the browsers. I will explain how to set up formatting, linting and testing in Deno, and then how to publish your module to deno.land/x and npm. We’ll start out with a quick introduction to what Deno is. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

Writing Universal Modules for Deno, Node and the Browser

Luca Casonato

The workshop overviews key architecture principles, design patterns, and technologies used to build microservices in the Node.js stack. It covers the theory of the GRPC framework and protocol buffers mechanism, as well as techniques and specifics of building isolated services using the monorepo approach with lerna and yarn workspaces, TypeScript. The workshop includes a live practical assignment to create a currency converter application that follows microservices paradigms. The "Microservices in Node.js with GRPC" workshop fits the best developers who want to learn and practice GRPC microservices pattern with the Node.js platform. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

How to Convert Crypto Currencies with Microservices in Node.js and GRPC

Alex Korzhikov

Andrew Reddikh

Next.js is a compelling framework that makes many tasks effortless providing many out-of-the-box solutions. But when it comes to authentication and user security, it's our mission to make it reliable, secure, and efficient. In this workshop, we'll focus on different user authentication and session management approaches, starting from a custom authentication strategy (that we will build together), and ending learning how to identify and integrate the right auth provider (Auth0, Firebase, etc.) for any app. Table of contents:- A brief introduction to Next.js- Building an authentication mechanism from scratch- Why we should avoid custom authentication- How to identify the proper authentication mechanism and provider- Integrating NextAuth.js, Auth0, Firebase, or any other provider <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

Managing Authentication in Next.js

Fastify is an HTTP framework for Node.js that focuses on providing a good developer experience without compromising on performance metrics. What makes Fastify special are not its technical details, but its community which is wide open for contributions of any kind. Part of the secret sauce is Fastify plugin architecture that enabled developers to write more than a hundred plugins. This hands-on workshop is structured around a series of exercises that covers from basics "hello world", to how to structure a project, perform database access and authentication. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

The biggest event on JavaScript backends