Version 7.0.0 of the npm CLI is now available. npm v7 will most likely ship with the release of Node.js v15 next week, but developers can start using this update now by running npm install -g npm@7. 

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Some highlights from npm v7 include:

• Workspaces, which offer support to managing multiple packages from within one top-level, root package
• The ability to automatically install peer dependencies
• package-lock v2 and support for yarn.lock
• npx has been completely rewritten to use the npm exec command. 

To read the full list of updates, check out the changelog.

Google announced the 8th Chrome Developer Summit, a conference where you can find about the latest tools and updates coming to Chrome, will take place virtually on Dec. 9-10. Although sessions and live chat will be open to all, seats for workshops, office hours, and other exclusive events will be limited to make them interactive and more personal, so request an invite here. 

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• Workshops and office hours will dive into topics like Performance, Web Vitals, Trust & Safety, PWA, CSS, UX & Design, and more.
• The first day of sessions will concentrate on "building strong foundations for the modern web," while the second day will show developers how to build "incredible experiences on top of the solid foundations."
• Keep up-to-date on updates about the rest of the event's agenda by bookmarking this website.
• Check out previous Chrome Developer Summit sessions on YouTube: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015.

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Today's Dev Funding:

• Armory (San Francisco, CA), commercial open-source continuous delivery project: $40M C led by Lead Edge Capital, Marc Benioff, participation from Insight Partners, Crosslink Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Mango Capital, Y Combinator, Javelin Venture Partners.
• FingerprintJS (Chicago, IL), browser fingerprinting as a service for any application: $4M led by Nexus Venture Partners, participation from Hack VC.
• BitNinja (Debrecen, Hungary), website server protection solution: $2.5M A led by Lead Ventures, participation from Hungarian investor Oxo Technologies Holding.

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Cloudflare launched Cloudflare One, a network-as-a-service, zero trust solution designed to help businesses of all sizes secure and speed up their workforce's devices, applications, and entire network. The new platform enables businesses to simultaneously protect themselves against the likes of zero-day attacks while still working in a flexible and scalable way as distributed teams work from multiple devices and their own networks.

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• Cloudflare’s firewall feature also makes it possible for businesses to get a comprehensive view of all data that flows globally and use that information to quickly protect themselves against potential threats across the network.
• Cloudflare's stock went up 21.9% upon announcing the product.
• The news comes after Cloudflare also recently launched Cloudflare Analytics, what it calls a "privacy-friendly" web analytics tool. The new feature makes it possible to build custom analytics dashboards using data you need with the GraphQL Analytics API and more, including the ability to track the health of your origin server and optimize your Cloudflare configuration.

💡 Read This Thing: Interesting Opinion, Articles, and More Currently Trending. 

Here are a few pieces the dev community's currently discussing worth taking a look at.

• In "The Widening Responsibility for Front-End Developers," Chris Coyier continues the discussion he initially started in his first essay 'When front-end means full-stack." "There is a whole pile of new stuff we’re starting to be expected to do," he writes while discussing the role of a front-end developer these days.
• In this piece titled "We throw away our power as engineers working for other people," the editor of Better Programming encourages developers to use their valuable skills to create their own jobs.
• In "Perhaps Mozilla Should Unfck Itself Before "Unfcking the Internet," the founder of FOSS Post argues Mozilla should be devoting its resources to browser development and other efforts that could help make it more financially secure rather than continue to release new initiatives.

Quick Hits:

• The Chrome DevTools team is working on improving the Performance panel so it's easier to use, and is asking users to offer feedback by taking this five-question survey.
• Visidata 2.0, a terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data, is now available and features new loaders as well as an API specification for plugins.
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