Node Weekly
May 11, 2017  #187
Danny Grander
A video and full write-up/notes on hacking a vulnerable Node app, as well as three vulnerabilities in popular npm packages.


Paul Irish
Debugging Node apps from within Chrome’s DevTools has been possible for a while but recent major improvements have resulted in this post being updated.


Gergely Nemeth
A look at a tool that can help you figure out what went wrong with your Node app.


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Sam Roberts
“Some war-stories to give a sense of why so many long-time Node.js contributors are trying to keep useful APIs out of Node.js.”


Microsoft
Glimpse is an experimental npm package providing in-depth insights into both the client and server sides of your Node apps.


util.promisify takes a function following the typical callback style and returns a version that returns promises.


Jamie Mason
There’s instructions for running them yourself, but npm5 is in the lead and looking very promising.


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