--- title: "This Week's Node.js News - Issue 110" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 110 published_at: "2015-10-29" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/110" --- This Week's Node.js News - Issue 110 This week's Node and io.js news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/110) Node WeeklyOctober 29, 2015 #110 Babel [Babel 6.0.0 Released: Now a General Tooling Platform](https://babeljs.io/blog/2015/10/29/6.0.0/)Once known as solely an ES6-to-ES5 compiler, Babel is now a plugin-based general JavaScript tooling platform. Geoff Greer [Why is Node Crashing? A Deep Dive into a Tricky Bug](https://news.floobits.com/2015/10/26/why-is-nodejs-crashing-a-deep-dive-into-a-tricky-bug/)A look at what happened when some developers were encountering a bug that wasn’t in their code, but within Node itself. YouTube [Douglas Crockford Unveils the Seif Project](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHRXPlq9XNw)At OSCON this week, Douglas Crockford (_JavaScript: The Good Parts_) unveiled Seif, an open source project from PayPal bringing enhanced encryption to Node to fuel an HTML-free JS-based app delivery system built on Node and Qt. ImgixSponsor [Responsive Images in Your NodeJS Application in 30 Minutes or Less](https://www.imgix.com/?utm_source=node-weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2015-10-29-node-weekly)With imgix, integrating responsive images into your app could not be easier. imgix resizes, crops, and processes images on demand and has a robust npm package to make integration easy. Learn how to start delivering responsive images in less than 30 minutes. [![Imgix\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/240720a7.png)](https://www.imgix.com/?utm_source=node-weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2015-10-29-node-weekly) ŷhat [How We Built Rodeo with Electron](http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/how-rodeo-works.html)A quick case study of using Node to build and package a desktop app. [electron-builder](https://github.com/loopline-systems/electron-builder) looks like a particularly handy tool. Sasha Aickin [A Streaming Server-Side Rendering Library for React](https://github.com/aickin/react-dom-stream)“Streams make this library as much as 47% faster in sending down a full page than ReactDOM.renderToString” Node Knockout [Node.js Knockout Taking Place Nov 7-8](http://www.nodeknockout.com/#2015edition)A 48 hour online hackathon (similar to Rails Rumble or Ludum Dare). 35 spots remain if you want to register. GitHub [Node 5.0.0 Being Released This Evening, Hopefully](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3466)Unfortunately it’s coming out a bit late for us, but if you want to be ahead of the game on Node 5.0.0, it’s due in a few hours. Radek Pazdera [Manipulating Git Repositories with Node](http://radek.io/2015/10/27/nodegit/)A look at performing some basic git actions using the [nodegit](https://github.com/nodegit/nodegit) library. In Brief - [SAP Makes Strong Commitment to Node.js](http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/hana/blog/2015/10/25/sap-endorses-nodejs) news SAP - [ng-best-practices - Learn to Build Angular Apps the Right Way](https://www.outlearn.com/learn/vkarpov15/ng-best-practices) course Avoid common mistakes and take your Angular skills to the next level with this free tutorial. OutlearnSponsor - [Use Promises Instead of Callbacks with promisify-node](http://davidwalsh.name/promises-callbacks-promisifynode) tutorial David Walsh - [Colorful Node.js Message Logging with Chalk](http://davidwalsh.name/chalk) tutorial tools David Walsh - [Using node-serialport in an Electron App](http://meow.noopkat.com/using-node-serialport-in-an-electron-app/) tutorial Suz Hinton - [Installing node-oracledb on Microsoft Windows](https://community.oracle.com/docs/DOC-931127) tutorial Bill Christo - [The Struggles of Publishing A JavaScript Library](http://nolanlawson.com/2015/10/19/the-struggles-of-publishing-a-javascript-library/) opinion Nolan Lawson - [Edge.js: .NET and Node.js In-Process](https://github.com/tjanczuk/edge) tools [Edge.js](http://tjanczuk.github.io/edge/#/) lets you run Node and .NET in-process. It even works on OS X and Linux using Mono. Tomasz Janczuk - [Redis Performance Dashboard and Autoscaling from RedisGreen](https://dashboard.redisgreen.net/new?utm_source=nodeweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2015b&utm_content=link&utm_term=seamless+autoscaling+performance) tools Seamless scaling and analytics backed by support from engineers who have been scaling Redis for years. RedisGreenSponsor - [HTMLMinifier: JavaScript-Based HTML Compressor/Minifier](https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier) code tools Juriy Zaytsev - [WebSockets for React and Node](https://github.com/ColDog/socketify) code An easy way to integrate React and Node by using WebSockets like RESTful resources. Colin Walker - [Docker + Node "Hello World" Example Repo for Docker Beginners](https://github.com/danawoodman/docker-node-hello-world) code Dana Woodman - [Purdy: Pretty Print Objects with Colors](https://www.npmjs.com/package/purdy) code A lot like Ruby’s awesome_print. 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