--- title: "This Week's Node.js News - Issue 109" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 109 published_at: "2015-10-22" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/109" --- This Week's Node.js News - Issue 109 This week's Node and io.js news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/109) Node WeeklyOctober 22, 2015 #109 GitHub [Evolving the Node Logo](https://github.com/nodejs/evangelism/issues/179)Node community manager Mikeal Rogers says the foundation is considering an iteration on the official Node logo. Get involved here. There are tons of great ideas already. Brandon Mayes [Long-Running Node Processes](http://spanningcloudapps.github.io/2015/10/12/Long-running-Node-processes/)Considerations if you want your Node processes to stay up and running for the long haul. Nic Raboy [Create A Full Stack App Using Node.js and Couchbase Server](https://blog.nraboy.com/2015/10/create-a-full-stack-app-using-node-js-couchbase-server/)A start to finish tutorial of bringing together Node, the Couchbase database system, Angular, and Express. RedisGreenSponsor [Redis Performance Dashboard and Autoscaling from RedisGreen](https://dashboard.redisgreen.net/new?utm_source=nodeweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2015b&utm_content=primary&utm_term=findout+autoscaling+performance)Ever wonder what your Redis server was actually doing? Find out with RedisGreen's dashboard and monitoring tools. [![RedisGreen\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/b7e9acfb.png)](https://dashboard.redisgreen.net/new?utm_source=nodeweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2015b&utm_content=primary&utm_term=findout+autoscaling+performance) Node.js Foundation [Node Foundation Unveils Node.js Interactive Sessions](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/announcements/interactive-2015-programming/)Some of the first sessions from the forthcoming Node.js Interactive conference have been unveiled. David Washington [Building Real-time Chess with Socket.io](http://dwcares.com/realchess/)Tutorial of building a basic chess game backed by a Node server. Glenn Jones [Building a Simple Node.js Server on Scaleway](http://glennjones.net/articles/building-a-simple-node-js-server-on-scaleway)Scaleway is an interesting provider of ultra cheap dedicated ARM servers, and since Node now runs well on ARM this could be a great way to play with Node in the cloud. Jonathan Krause [Node.js for The Real World](http://www.technology-ebay.de/the-teams/mobile-de/blog/nodejs-real-world)A German division of eBay has been refactoring its legacy apps into Node-powered microservices. Here, they share some things they’ve learnt along the way. Jobs - [Join The Top 3% of Freelance Node.js Developers Worldwide](http://www.toptal.com/developers?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=nodejs_weekly&utm_campaign=top_3) Toptal is an exclusive network of elite freelance software engineers. Apply today to work with top clients, set your own rates, and collaborate with other top Node.js developers. Toptal In Brief - [IBM Adds Node.js Debugging into the (Blue)mix](http://www.developer-tech.com/news/2015/oct/13/ibm-adds-nodejs-debugging-bluemix/) news Following on from their acquisition of StrongLoop. DeveloperTech - [Running A Simple Web Server From A Shell (using Node)](http://www.2ality.com/2015/10/http-server-nodejs.html) tutorial Dr. Axel Rauschmayer - [ng-best-practices - Learn to Build Angular Apps the Right Way](https://www.outlearn.com/learn/vkarpov15/ng-best-practices) tutorial Avoid common mistakes and take your Angular skills to the next level with this free tutorial. OutlearnSponsor - [Building Technical Documentation with Metalsmith](https://segment.com/blog/building-technical-documentation-with-metalsmith/) tutorial [Metalsmith](https://github.com/segmentio/metalsmith) is a plugin-driven static site generator. Andy Jiang - [An Automated Payment Reminder System with Lob and Segment](https://lob.com/blog/automate-payment-reminder-system-with-lob-customerio-segment/) tutorial And Node too, of course. Lob - [Node with Docker - Continuous Integration and Delivery](http://mherman.org/blog/2015/03/06/node-with-docker-continuous-integration-and-delivery/) tutorial A quick guide for spinning up Docker containers that run Node and Redis and a workflow to maintain them. Michael Herman - [Build a Web App With Node, Express, Bootstrap Stormpath in 15 Minutes](https://stormpath.com/blog/build-nodejs-express-stormpath-app/?utm_source=node-weekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign= build-nodejs-express-stormpath-app) tutorial Roll out an Express.js webapp, with a complete user registration and login system in a 15 minute tutorial. StormpathSponsor - [Going from Apache/PHP to Node.js and Express](http://beautifulcode.1stdibs.com/2015/10/16/from-apache-php-to-nodejs-expres/) opinion One team’s journey and insights along the way. Tim Whidden - [Mancy: A Cross Platform JavaScript REPL built on Electron and React](http://www.mancy-re.pl/) tools toolitup - [Chalkline: Draws a Colored Horizontal Line in the Terminal](https://www.npmjs.com/package/chalkline) code You could use this during debugging, perhaps. niftylettuce - [Nightmare: A High-Level Browser Automation Library](https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare) code Uses Electron under the hood. Segment - [Kairos: A Non Date-Based Time Calculator](https://github.com/rodrigogs/kairos) code You can add 5 hours 20 minutes to 10:05am, for example. Rodrigo Gomes da Silva Node Weekly is curated by [Peter Cooper](https://twitter.com/peterc) and published by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/). Want to sponsor an issue? See our [media kit.](https://cooperpress.com/mediakit) Want to post a job? 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