This Week's Node News - Issue 70

node weekly January 22, 2015  #70

STRONGLOOP StrongLoop's Look at Node in 2014 and Predictions for 2015 A look at how Node picked up momentum in 2014 before moving to a bulletpoint list of things they see coming up this year. WATCHMECODE Upgrading Express v3 to v4 A 30 minute screencast showing what it takes to get an Express v3-based app up to the latest and greatest version 4. OPBEAT   SPONSORED Get a push notification on your mobile when your app breaks Get notified in real-time whenever an error occurs in your app, and make an informed decision about whether you need to open your laptop. Full Node.js support. Free for small teams. Node Weekly readers get $100 credit. NODE.JS BLOG Node v0.11.15 (Unstable) Released Includes updates on v8 (not to io.js levels, naturally), libuv, and npm. STRONGLOOP What’s New in io.js 1.0 Beta? – Streams3 Node Streams are a powerful way to build modules and applications that deal with large streams of data. MICHAEL SCHÖBEL Node.js and Io.js - Very Different in Performance A mostly inconclusive look at varying performance levels using different types of arrays. Ben Noordhuis shared his thoughts on the results on Hacker News. GABOR PAPP How Google Sees Node.js A look at Node through the eyes of Google Trends, Google’s autosuggest system, and what Node related terms people are searching for. Jobs 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 Senior Node.js Developer at digital currency / Bitcoin startup Circle Whether you're convinced or curious about Bitcoin's potential to redefine money as we know it, if you're a smart, passionate Node.js developer with a strong background in building web apps using modern frameworks we'd like to hear from you. CIRCLE In brief io.js 1.0.3 Released NEWS V8 goes from version 3.31 to 4.1 (not as big an upgrade as it sounds), Windows XP/2003 support is re-enabled, npm is upgraded to 2.2.0.   IO.JS nvm (Node Version Manager) Adds io.js Support NEWS nvm is mostly a bash script to manage multiple active Node.js versions (like Ruby’s RVM). It now supports io.js as well as Node.   TIM CASWELL Understanding the Node.js Event Loop TUTORIAL  NODESOURCE Detecting PhantomJS-Based Visitors TUTORIAL  SHAPE SECURITY LABS CommonJS Modules Make Brittle Singletons ‘We occasionally rely on node’s module caching to share a single instance throughout a full-stack javascript project. This strategy breaks more than we’d like.’   ADAM HULL Why Panda Strike Wrote the Fastest JSON Schema Validator for Node.js    GILES BOWKETT A Look at the JavaScript Module Pattern SPONSORED VIDEO Use the JavaScript Module pattern to define public/private methods and encapsulate functionality.  FRONTEND MASTERS Scaling A/B Testing on Netflix.com with Node.js VIDEO  ALEX LIU Using Node.js for Everything VIDEO The CEO of Modulus looks at how a company can be entirely based around JavaScript technologies and tooling.   CHARLIE KEY Node.js Tools RC2 for Visual Studio: Improved Stability, TypeScript Support TOOLS  MICROSOFT Try the Most Advanced On-Premise Profiling and Monitoring System SPONSORED TOOLS Built for Node, Concurix offers code level insights and unique visualizations, like flamegraphs on any OS.  CONCURIX curlconverter: Convert Chrome-Generated Curl Commands to Native JavaScript (or Python) HTTP Calls CODE TOOLS  NICK CARNEIRO Diet.js: A Tiny Modular Node Web Framework CODE  ADAM HALASZ CanCan: Authorization Handling for Node.js  CODE A port of Ryan Bates’ popular CanCan library for Ruby. ES6 focused.   VADIM DEMEDES big-query-bot: Automated Google BigQuery Execution with Async Library CODE  ILYA PIMENOV Robe: Node.js ODM for MongoDB using ES6 Generators CODE  RAMESH NAIR PublicSuffixList: Validate Top Level and Domain Names using Mozilla's Public Suffix List CODE  CMTT