Node Weekly
March 12, 2015  #77
Damian Beresford
A look at using the memwatch and heapdump modules to track memory leaks from within a Node application itself.


Tessel
Tessel is a JavaScript-powered Node-compatible microcontroller (think an Arduino-like meets JS). For the next version, io.js is being adopted.


SendGrid   Sponsor
Reliably send and deliver email from your application using the SendGrid Node.js library. Visit the Code Workshop to see a working example of sending mail through Sendgrid, and export the code example in minutes. Easily integrate and test sending up to 400 emails per day, for free.

SendGrid

io.js
New Buffer#indexOf() method, a TLS memory leak fixed, npm upgraded to 2.7.0, and more.


Isaac Z. Schlueter
As a way to normalize between the browser and a Node-like environment. The idea doesn’t appear to be popular so far though.


NodeSource
A look at installing Node and io.js on a variety of Debian-based (including Ubuntu) distributions using pre-packaged binaries.


Jobs

  • Freelance with Companies like Airbnb, IDEO JPMorgan
    Work on special projects with great companies through Toptal. Set your weekly/hourly rate, and work from anywhere in the world as an elite HTML5 developer. See if you have what it takes. TopTal
  • Node.js Engineer at TES (San Francisco, CA)
    TES USA, based in San Francisco, is built on a microservices architecture using Node.js, MongoDB, Redis, and Docker. Over 50 million unique visitors come to our sites every month. If you want to be challenged and have real impact, we want to hear from you. TES USA

In Brief