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Node Weekly Issue 15
December 19, 2013
Featured
Koa: Next-Generation Web Framework for Node.js — Koa is a new web framework by the team behind Express, which aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications and APIs. Leveraging generators, Koa allows you to ditch callbacks and improve error-handling.
Node.js in 2013 Timeline: A Year in Review — A timeline showing some of this year's Node news from the release of Node 0.10 through to.. the timeline being created ;-)
Gergely Nemeth
Announcing Elasticsearch.js For Node.js And The Browser — Elasticsearch is a superb, powerful search and analytics engine and it now has an official JavaScript client for both Node.js and modern browsers.
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Reading
9 Quick npm Tips
Nicolas Bevacqua
Monolithic Node.js — A long but interesting read about Node.js’s role in building large-scale systems and how the author’s company has achieved it.
Richard Rodger
End to End Testing with CasperJS — Explains how to test the client side of a Backbone application via the PhantomJS-based CasperJS.
Gary Ryan
Rendering on the Server and Client in Node.js
Craig Spaeth
Handling OAuth2 with Node.js and Angular.js: Passport to The Rescue — A look at providing a log-in flow for a Node app using the OAuth2 authentication services provided by the likes of Facebook, Google or Twitter.
Matthew Tyler
Libraries, Code and Tools
node-websocketd: A Lightweight Node Port of websocketd — websocketd is a Go app that can turn any application that uses stdio/stdout into a WebSocket server. This does the same from Node in 13 lines of code.
Julian Gruber
Feathers: Get REST and Real-time APIs Running by using Services — Sits on top of Express.js and provides a simple framework for building Meteor-style real-time apps. Allows you to build services (CRUD-style) that automatically come with a REST API and Socket.IO events.
Logan: A Mini Template System for The Console using 'colors' — Makes it easy to write cleaner code when doing a lot of colored logs by separating content from style.
typicode
Gulp: The Streaming Build System — The article Getting Started with Gulp will come in useful too.
Fractal
likely.js: For Collaborative Filtering and Making Recommendations — Takes an input training matrix where the rows represent users and the columns represent items that have been rated by the user. After training, you can retrieve a list of recommended items and their estimated ratings for any given user.
Sean Byrnes
NodeTemplate: Full Featured Skeleton for JSON API with Node & Express
Avner Cohen
npm_lazy: A Lazy Local Cache for npm
Mikito Takada
Hexo: Fast, Simple & Powerful Static-File Node.js Blog Framework
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Last but not least..
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