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title: "This Week's Node.js News - Issue 118"
publication: "Node Weekly"
issue: 118
published_at: "2015-12-31"
canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/118"
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This Week's Node.js News - Issue 118

This week's Node and io.js news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/118)

Node WeeklyDecember 31, 2015 #118 CertSimple 

[How to Deploy Node Apps on Linux, 2016 Edition](https://certsimple.com/blog/deploy-node-on-linux)A distribution and cloud agnostic guide to deploying Node apps in production, taking you all the way from ‘I have the source for a Node app’ to ‘I have a deployed Node app on the Web’.
 Alex Kras 

[A Guide to Finding a JavaScript Memory Leak in Node.js](http://www.alexkras.com/simple-guide-to-finding-a-javascript-memory-leak-in-node-js/)A walkthrough of hunting down a memory leak in a Node program. Includes a sample app, and the techniques you’ll need to hunt the bug.
 The New Stack 

[More Node.js Tooling for the Enterprise, Please](http://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-node-js-tooling-enterprise-please/)A write up (and recording) of a chat between Dan Shaw (NodeSource), Ashley Williams (npm, Inc) and Matteo Collina (NearForm) about how Node needs more, and better, tooling to grow in the enterprise.
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 Dan Cătălin Burzo 

[Drawing Every Street in Romania with Node and SVG](http://danburzo.ro/every-street/)A look at extracting data from OpenStreetMap files and drawing a map with SVG from Node.
 YouTube 

[Make Printers Great Again with Node](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58Ti8w1yX2w)A fun talk by Thomas Watson on using the Internet Printing Protocol from Node to create virtual printers from your Node apps for various ends.
 Scott Frees 

[Getting C++ to the Web with Node.js](http://blog.scottfrees.com/getting-your-c-to-the-web-with-node-js)A series of posts about bringing C and C++ code into Node apps by running it, via a shared library, or as an addon. [Part two](http://blog.scottfrees.com/automating-a-c-program-from-a-node-js-web-app) looks at controlling a C++ program from Node, and [part three](http://blog.scottfrees.com/calling-native-c-dlls-from-a-node-js-web-app) covers calling native C++ DLLs from Node.
 Danese Cooper 

[The Next Era of Node.js](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XlGDVXk2hM)In 20 minutes, PayPal’s Danese Cooper reflects on the growth of the Node ecosystem and community through events, working groups and the Node Foundation.


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In Brief

- [Node v4.2.4 (LTS) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v4.2.4) news 
Not a big release but includes many test and documentation updates and an npm upgrade. Node.js Blog
- [The History of Node.js on a Timeline](https://blog.risingstack.com/history-of-node-js/) news 
A quick link driven history of Node.js from 2009 until now. Rising Stack
- [N|Solid. Enterprise Node. Finally.](http://nsrc.io/1Ngx01O) tools 
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- [How npm v3's Dependency Resolution Works](https://docs.npmjs.com/how-npm-works/npm3) tutorial npm, Inc.
- [Making Your Node.js Applications Debuggable](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHrrgZmoY6E) video 
A look at profiling the performance and memory usage of your apps. Patrick Mueller
- [Home Automation with Node.js and Rasperry Pi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8lFHdM5pIk) video Mariano Campo
- [Building Interactive npm Command Line Modules](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLat0Y3jqUA) video Irina Shestak
- [Neon: Node + Rust](http://calculist.org/blog/2015/12/23/neon-node-rust/) tools 
Neon is a set of APIs and tools to make it easy to write native Node modules in Rust. The Little Calculist
- [bodybuilder: An Elasticsearch Query Body Builder for Node](https://github.com/danpaz/bodybuilder) code Daniel Paz-Soldan
- [node-ufc-api: A Wrapper for the Ultmate Fighting Championship API](https://github.com/sungwoncho/node-ufc-api) code Sung Won Cho
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