Today I learned about...
node

TIL about feed, an npm package that allows you to quickly generate an RSS feed for your website!

I used it to generate an RSS feed for my blog and my TIL feeds! It’s pretty simple and super easy to plug into your existing project.

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TIL about the node-modules-inspector — a package that allows you to visualize your node_modules folder, inspect your dependencies, and so much more 🤯! I’m a big fan of the visualizations, since I’m more of a visual kinda person. You can use it in your own project with this simple command: npx node-modules-inspector.

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Sick of seeing truncated Objects in Node? I got you bro (well Matt Pocock has got you).

let deepNesting = {
	level1: {
		level2: {
			level3: {
				level4: {
					level5: {
						name: 'Moderately Nested Object',
						value: 42,
						attributes: {
							created: '2023-10-01',
							modified: '2023-10-15',
							tags: ['demo', 'test', 'nested'],
							metadata: {
								author: 'Jane Doe',
								version: '1.0',
								license: 'MIT',
							},
						},
						items: [
							{
								id: 1,
								description: 'First item',
								status: 'active',
							},
							{
								id: 2,
								description: 'Second item',
								status: 'inactive',
							},
						],
					},
				},
			},
		},
	},
}

// logs: { level1: { level2: { level3: [Object] } } }
console.log(deepNesting)

// You get the whole object!
console.dir(deepNesting, { depth: Infinity })

Matt is the man!

TIL that commonjs has a require cache. Basically, if you require a module once in the file, it gets cached and if you attempt to require the module a second time, EVEN IF THE CONTENT HAS CHANGED, you’ll get the cached version.

Usually this isn’t a problem but it bit me in the butt when I moved my remix app over to be using express. I had to call this function inside of my server code when remix finished rebundling.

function clearRequireCache() {
	Object.keys(require.cache).forEach(function (key) {
		delete require.cache[key]
	})
}

TIL during a basic async node training video, that the node core api exposes promisified (I think that’s a word) functions. For example fs provides a promise based API.

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