Node Weekly Issue 122: January 28, 2016

Node Weekly

January 28, 2016 #122

npm

Disabling's npm install's Progress Bar Yields Speedups

People are discovering that npm’s progress bar is slowing down overall module installation times quite significantly. A fix is in the works.

Rod Vagg

All Actively Maintained Node Releases Affected by OpenSSL Defects

The vulnerabilities are not yet disclosed. Node releases based on updated versions of OpenSSL will arrive around February 1.

Zell Liew

Building A CRUD App with Express and MongoDB

A very comprehensive walkthrough of building a simple webapp with Express.

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WordExpress: Node-Based WordPress Development

Provides a connection to a WordPress MySQL database using Sequelize and provides a standard set of queries to use with GraphQL. The aim is to provide a better development experience for WordPress using JavaScript instead of PHP.

chimneypot

Chimneypot: A Lightweight Git Webhook Handler

Allows you to listen to all kinds of GitHub events and execute functions on your server.

Richard Rodger

Seneca, A Microservices Framework for Node

Seneca’s job is to make writing microservices with Node easier. This article goes into quite some depth.

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In Brief

npm camp: A Community Conference for All Things npm news
In the Bay Area this July.
Tutorial: Build a React Application With User Authentication tutorial
Learn how to build a React application from scratch using the new Stormpath React SDK.
Stormpath Sponsor
Creating a Twitter Bot with Node.js tutorial code
Debashis Barman
Automatically Validate HTML with Node.js and Valimate tutorial
James Wright
Why Everyone Is Talking About Isomorphic JavaScript and Why It Matters tutorial
Azat Mardan
[Whitepaper] 9 Common Node.js Patterns tutorial
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AppNeta APM Sponsor
Emacs vs. WebStorm For Node Development opinion
Al Scott
npm-install-webpack-plugin: Automatically Install and Save Dependencies with Webpack tools
Use require or import how you normally would and npm install will happen automatically to install and save missing dependencies while you work.
Eric Clemmons
Introducing vtop — A Terminal Activity Monitor in Node.js tools
James Hall
2 ways of testing: where you wait for tests to finish... and wallaby.js tools
Instant feedback from your tests in JavaScript ES6/ES7/TypeScript/CoffeeScript. Now in Sublime Text as well.
Wallaby.js Sponsor
Node-Big-Rig: A Module and CLI Tool for Doing Trace Analysis tools code
Command line based analysis of traces from WebPagetest or Chrome’s DevTools.
Google
scalable-blob-store: A Simple Local File System Blob Store code
Grant Carthew
Janeway: A curses-Based Console for Node.js code
Inspired by the developer tools in Webkit/Blink.
Jelle De Loecker
socket.js: A Realtime Communication Framework using WebSockets code
Stephan Boyer