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title: "This Week's Node.js News - Issue 133"
publication: "Node Weekly"
issue: 133
published_at: "2016-04-14"
canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/133"
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This Week's Node.js News - Issue 133

This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/133)

Node WeeklyApril 14, 2016 #133 Node.js Foundation 

[A Look at the Node.js Foundation's Survey Results](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/announcements/nodejs-foundation-survey/)Lots of observations, including that 45% of Node developers also use container technology, and Express is used by 83% of Node developers.
 Alex Hultman 

[µWebSockets: Highly Efficient WebSocket Server Library](https://github.com/alexhultman/uWebSockets)Features a fully async object-oriented interface and scales to millions of connections in a memory-efficient manner.
 test double 

[Scripty: Easily Organize npm Scripts into Separate Files](https://github.com/testdouble/scripty)Provides a way to structure your own npm scripts on the file system. “Because no one should be shell-scripting inside a JSON file.”
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[How to Deploy RESTful APIs using Node and Docker](http://blog.cloud66.com/how-to-deploy-restful-apis-using-node-express4-and-docker/?utm_source=Cooperpress&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=node)Everything you need to build, deploy and manage your Node.js apps in production in one single tool.

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 Node.js Foundation 

[Node v4.4.3 (LTS) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v4.4.3/)A few minor changes.
 Dmitri Voronianski 

[Using the Facebook Messenger Platform from Node](https://github.com/voronianski/simon-le-bottle)Facebook [has opened up](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform) their Messenger platform so you can write bots that use it. This project shows it in action via an Express app.
 Amazon 

[Node.js 4.3.2 Runtime Now Available on Lambda](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/node-js-4-3-2-runtime-now-available-on-lambda/)Functions written for Node 0.10 will continue to be supported, but creating 0.10 functions will end in October.


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In Brief

- [Twilio presents SIGNAL: The Developer Conference for Communications](http://gosignal.wpengine.com/hello-node-weekly/?utm_source=node_newsletter&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=signal16_node) news 
Over 2,000 developers come together at SIGNAL conference to change communications together. TwilioSponsor
- [AWS Lambda Now Supports Node.js 4.3](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/04/aws-lambda-supports-node-js-4-3/) news Amazon Web Services
- [NodeConf Argentina: November 18-19 in Buenos Aires](https://2016.nodeconf.com.ar/) news NodeConf Argentina
- [NodeSource Announces $10 Million Series A Funding](https://nodesource.com/blog/series-a-funding/) news 
It’s always good to see funding in our ecosystem and NodeSource appears to be on the up and up. NodeSource
- [Run npm Enterprise On AWS with Just A Few Clicks](http://blog.npmjs.org/post/142409778875/run-npm-enterprise-on-aws-with-just-a-few-clicks) news tools 
npm’s enterprise-level repository manager. The npm Blog
- [Deploy a REST API in 30 Mins Using mLabs and Heroku](http://www.sitepoint.com/deploy-rest-api-in-30-mins-mlabs-heroku/) tutorial 
Chris Chang demonstrates how to use the MEAN stack to rapidly create a RESTful API server and rich web application, which he then deploys to Heroku. Chris Chang
- [Adding Social Sharing in a Node.js Single-Page Application](http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/adding-social-sharing-in-a-nodejs-single-page-application--cms-25530) tutorial Kyle Davis
- [How to Validate User Input in A NoSQL Web Application](http://rethinkdb.com/blog/validation-techniques/) tutorial 
Practical approaches on how to validate user input for a schema-less database. Ryan Paul
- [Web Crawling with Node, PhantomJS and Horseman](http://www.sitepoint.com/web-crawling-node-phantomjs-horseman/) tutorial Andrew Forth
- [Stranger Danger: Addressing the Security Risk in NPM Dependencies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFjNNDjQgJ8) video Guy Podjarny and Danny Grander
- [Tips for Writing Better Quality Node Apps](https://dannycomputerscientist.wordpress.com/2016/03/31/writing-better-quality-node-js-applications/) opinion Danny Brown
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- [Minty.js: See Your App's Variables' State Line-by-Line](https://www.npmjs.com/package/minty) tools Lumpy Turnips
- [What is Bot Builder for Node.js?](http://docs.botframework.com/builder/node/overview/) tools 
A framework for constructing bots that can handle both freeform and structured interactions. Microsoft
- [js-mind: A Deep Learning Library Written in ES2015](https://github.com/yujiosaka/js-mind) code yujiosaka
- [Shaven: DOM Building Utility and Template Engine Based Upon JsonML](http://adriansieber.com/shaven/) code 
Represent XML/HTML with JSON, so templates are simply JS arrays. Adrian Sieber
- [node-fb-messenger: Facebook Messenger Platform API Wrapper for Node](https://github.com/DiegoRBaquero/node-fb-messenger) code Diego Rodríguez Baquero

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