This Week's Node News - Issue 72

node weekly February 5, 2015  #72

THE NPM BLOG Nicely Presented Markup (on npmjs.com) A look at the improvements being made in processing and rendering package READMEs on the official npm repository site, including sanitization, syntax highlighting, and Markdown parsing. READ WRITE Joyent Wants Fledgling Developers To Use Node.js — And It's Willing to Pay Joyent’s Node.js Incubator Program is designed for companies, startups, and individuals doing interesting things with Node. SEMAPHORE   SPONSORED Semaphore CI is free for open source & private projects Test and deploy your projects directly from GitHub or Bitbucket with zero setup, fast execution, and expert support. Join GitLab, 500px and more organizations who have improved their productivity with Semaphore. EGGHEAD Creating Demo APIs with json-server [video] json-server makes it easy to setup JSON APIs for demos or proof of concepts. Here, John Linquist walks us through the process of using pre-built JSON files for a server and how to generate larger datasets using lodash and faker. DAN MCGHAN Fun with Node.js and APEX APEX is a declarative environment for creating webapps on top of the Oracle Database. ATOM The Atom Editor Switches to io.js Atom is a text editor built on top of atom-shell and modern Web technologies, and it now runs on top of Chrome 40 and io.js. NODE.JS BLOG Node v0.11.16 (Unstable) openssl and npm upgrades, plus some minor bug fixes. IO.JS io.js 1.1.0 Released Jobs 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 This February, fall in love with a new job.  Top Node developers are in-demand & get multiple job offers in one week on Hired. Join today. HIRED.COM In brief React Workshop with Ryan Florence NEWS SPONSORED Covering basic to intermediate concepts and real-world tasks in React. Join online or in-person Feb 13th.  FRONTEND MASTERS Deploying to Heroku using Gulp, Node, and Git TUTORIAL  SITEPOINT User Authentication with Passport and Express 4 TUTORIAL  MICHAEL HERMAN Using Node.js with MySQL TUTORIAL  AMAURI GABRIEL Simple Node.js Code Style Tips to Improve Code Quality TUTORIAL  ERAN HAMMER Shipping Node.js Applications with Docker and Codeship TUTORIAL  RISINGSTACK Session Management In Your ExpressJS Web Application TUTORIAL  NICK RABOY Using Executables in npm Scripts TUTORIAL  KATE HUDSON 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 Moving from Node.js to Go at Bowery We’re not recommending it, but extra perspectives can be useful.   BOWERY clui: A Command Line UI toolkit for Node.js CODE Includes things like gauges, progress bars, sparklines, and spinners.   NATHAN PECK s3-download: A Stream to Download from Amazon S3 using Multipart Downloads CODE  SISILMET2000 expressiso: A Starter for Creating Isomorphic Express + React Apps CODE  JONATHAN CREAMER Lawgs: Logging to AWS CloudWatch Logs from Node Made Easy CODE  MENTUM connect-chaos: Connect / Express Middleware That Causes Chaos CODE For testing to see what happens when things ‘go wrong’ in your app.   DAKUAN Cation: A Fast, Customizable Dependency Injection Container for Node.js/io.js CODE  SERGIO LEPORE node-summary: Summarizes Text using a Naive Summarization Algorithm CODE  JAMES BROOKS highlights: Reads in Code, Writes out HTML with CSS based on the Code CODE  KEVIN SAWICKI