Thursday, 29 September, 2016 UTC


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Node Weekly
September 29, 2016 #157
Node.js Foundation
Security Updates for All Active Node.js Release Lines
Five different OpenSSL related security flaws have led to new security releases (below). A few Node-specific flaws have also been resolved.


Node.js Foundation
Node 6.7.0, 0.12.16, 0.10.47 and 4.6.0 Released
Several releases for important security reasons. See 0.12.6, 0.10.47 and 4.6.0 release posts separately.


Gergely Nemeth
Node at Scale: npm Best Practices
Learn some best practices for using Node’s package manager: from installation and finding packages, through to locking dependencies and securing projects.


Bandwidth Sponsored
Koa vs. Express? Why we chose Koa
Despite the fact that Express is the current dominator in the Node server space, we decided to go with Koa to serve up our UI code. See our thoughts behind the process, and how it all shook out.


P'unk Avenue
Apostrophe 2: A Node-Powered CMS
A stable, long-term-supported CMS framework for Node that lets end users edit content directly on the page.


Purse
Bcoin: Advanced Full Node JS Bitcoin Implementation
Built to back the infrastructure of a Bitcoin-powered company, Bcoin claims to be the most versatile Bitcoin library available - and all in JS.


Zeke Sikelianos
Electron: Desktop Apps with Web Languages
Some of the things you can create using features and tools that Electron inherits from the Chromium browser, Node.js, and the vast ecosystem of npm modules. Filmed at GitHub Universe 2016 - 42 minutes.


Machisté Quintana
Making Electron Development Simpler, More Pleasant and Productive
An engineer at Slack demonstrates the tools Slack used to reduce friction in Electron development (which they used for the latest Slack client, currently in beta). 35 minutes.


Tierney Coren
8 Protips For When 'Dockerizing' Node.js
Containers provide a common way to deploy Node apps in production, but how can you improve your packaging process?


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In brief
  • Node.js Debugging with Chrome DevTools (in Parallel with Browser JavaScript) tutorial
    An easy way to debug Node.js with Chrome DevTools
    Serg Hospodarets
  • Implementing Auth in a Node App using Passport and Postgres tutorial
    Michael Herman
  • Running a Node.js Process on Debian as a 'systemd' Service tutorial
    Thomas Hunter II
  • Building a Serverless Mesh-Processing Microservice with Node and Lambda tutorial
    Lucas Majerowicz
  • Node at Capital One with Azat Mardan podcast
    DevChat
  • Node.js Releases and Versions: How Do They Work? video
    If terms like ‘current’, ‘LTS’, and ‘maintenance’ confuse you, start here.
    Myles Borins
  • Things You Can Do In ES6 That Can't Be Done In ES5 video
    24 minutes.
    Dan Shappir
  • Find and Fix Node.js Errors Faster (and have fun doing it) tools
    Quickly pinpoint what’s broken and why. Get the context and insights to defeat all Node errors.
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  • Real-time performance monitoring for Node.js tools
    Custom metrics from your Node apps & application performance w/ metrics from the rest of your infrastructure
    Datadog Sponsored
  • RediBox: Modular Redis Connection and PUBSUB Manager for Node code
    RediBox
  • Marko: Templating Engine and UI Component Library from EBay code
    eBay
  • rethinkdb-job-queue: A Persistent Job/Task Queue Backed by RethinkDB code
    Built as an alternative to the many Redis-backed queue systems.
    Grant Carthew
  • mstream-node: A Node.js Music Streaming Server with FLAC Support code
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