A Supercharge Tale

I’m making good progress on Supercharge Launch. And dang, I need to get the landing page out the door. During development, I provisioned a Node.js server on DigitalOcean and deployed a repository from GitHub to that server. Fully automated … well, I needed to manually run a setup script. Everything else was done by the platform. Comfort I’m coming!

I’ve published a new package: supercharge/filesystem. This filesystem package provides async methods to interact with the local filesystem, like moving files or copying files with ease. All methods are async, no more worrying about sync methods or callbacks for you. Async/await all the way!

I’m currently working on a secret Supercharge project. It’s a project on simplifying server management for Node.js applications. More details in the episode!

I want your help with Supercharge. Do you want to contribute to open source? The "supercharge/strings" package has a handful of open issues. I’m calling you for contributions!

Finally, queues are available in the Supercharge framework. The new 1.0.0-beta7 release of the framework ships with first-class queue support. Enjoy!

I wrote the docs for the new @supercharge/strings package over the last weekend. And I couldn’t resist tagging the 1.0. Since then, I tagged a 1.1 and pushed the versions to NPM. Also, there’s a new package @supercharge/hapi-aws-lambda to provide a helping hand when going serverless with your hapi HTTP server.

I created a new Supercharge package this week: @supercharge/strings. This new strings package provides helpful utilities around JavaScript’s String class. For example, @supercharge/strings provides methods like .title() or .camelCase() to transform a given string into another format. It’s a handy utility when working with strings. You’ll like it!

I wanted to jump into Serverless for a long time. AWS Lambda looks really cool, the most intriguing parts are scalability and the removed server management. No more managing servers! This week I submitted a talk at the Magdeburg Developer Days on the topic of going serverless with Node.js monolith.

I moved the CI pipeline for all packages in the Supercharge family from Travis CI to GitHub Actions. And holy moly! GitHub Actions are FAST!

I’m always starting a package lifecycle at a 1.0 release. I never hide behind 0.x release lines to blame the early stage for issues and missing features. I also share my TypeScript learnings from this week: static analysis and auto-completions in your editor. Enjoy!