This Week's Node News - Issue 69

node weekly January 15, 2015  #69

IO.JS io.js 1.0 Released: The ES6-focused Node Fork 1.0.0 dropped two days ago (but 1.0.1 is now available). It differsfrom Node 0.10.35 quite a bit, and its ES6 support appears to be a leading feature. YARON NAVEH blessed-contrib: Build ASCII/ANSI Graphics-based Terminal Apps in Node Brings together blessed (curses-like library) with drawille (Unicode braille character drawing library) to create terminal-based apps that support graphical dashboards, graphs, charts, and more. This is well worth checking out. OPBEAT   SPONSORED How we scaled Instagram Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram, talks about their tech setup at the Opbeat San Francisco devops master class. NWJS node-webkit is now NW.js node-webkit has been a popular toolkit for building JavaScript-powered desktop apps and has now been renamed NW.js as the name no longer made sense (since it uses io.js and Chromium now, not Node and WebKit). MENTUM Lambdaws: Deploy, Run and Get Results From AWS Lambda in Node.js Using Amazon’s Lambda service, Lambdaws ‘cloudifies’ any JavaScript function — including existing libraries — with no extra code. Clever stuff. GERGELY NEMETH An io.js Overview What is io.js, how does it differ from Node, and what are its aims? A very short and simple overview. SARAH ALLEN Getting Started with Sails.js Sails.js is a Node.js MVC framework that sits on top of Express and provides more structure for apps. Jobs Lead JavaScript Developer at Thrive (Copenhagen, Denmark) - stealth We're a new startup with a top-tier team (ex-Podio, SK) looking for an experienced .js engineer to join us on Thrive. Funded. Generous equity, great challenges and a fun team. THRIVE Software Engineer Who Loves to Teach? Come change tech education as an instructor at Fullstack Academy, a YC backed immersive software engineering school based in New York City. We're hiring instructors to help teach our JavaScript driven curriculum to smart, motivated students. FULLSTACK ACADEMY In brief Io.js 1.0.0 Beta Release Could Lead to Reconciliation with Node.js NEWS  INFOWORLD Creating Your First Desktop App With HTML, JS and Node-WebKit TUTORIAL  TUTORIALZINE Improving the Module Factory Pattern in Node.js    PATRICK STEELE-IDEM Some (Node) Libraries I Use to Build Webapps    JAMES HALLIDAY Inside Ember.js' FastBoot: Faking the DOM in Node    YEHUDA KATZ AND TOM DALE Building With Node.js at LinkedIn An interview with Deepank Gupta, a Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn, about some of the details with working with Node.   TALENTBUDDY Monitor Node.js performance in real time TOOLS SPONSORED Monitor comprehensive real-time performance metrics - from your Node app to the operating system.  APPDYNAMICS Node.js Tools RC2 for Visual Studio: Improved Stability, TypeScript Support TOOLS  MICROSOFT Node.js Application Deployment & Hosting Simplified TOOLS SPONSORED Modulus provides a portable, scalable and customizable Node.js hosting platform. Try it for free now.  MODULUS simple-socks: A Simple SOCKS5 Proxy Server CODE  JOSHUA THOMAS Employee Directory Sample App with React and Node.js CODE  CHRISTOPHE COENRAETS cat-names: Get Popular Cat Names CODE Because why not.   SINDRE SORHUS tiny-graph: Tiny Graph Data Structure for Client or Server CODE  JASON MULLIGAN node-medium: A Node Module to Query Medium's Content Through Their REST API CODE  PHIL PLÜCKTHUN Cylon 0.22.0: The Robot Control Library CODE Now supports the Electric Imp, Intel’s IoT Analytics, and has improved AT&T M2X support.   CYLONJS Grant: Authentication Middleware for Express and Koa CODE For 80+ OAuth providers from imgur and Instagram to Spotify and StackExchange.   SIMO