--- title: "This Week's Node.js News - Issue 134" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 134 published_at: "2016-04-21" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/134" --- This Week's Node.js News - Issue 134 This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/134) Node WeeklyApril 21, 2016 #134 Daniel Leite de Oliveira [strman: A String Manipulation Library Without Dependencies](https://github.com/dleitee/strman)Places 53 handy functions at your disposal for things like padding, trimming, appending, slugifying, prepending, case conversions, etc. Victor Bjelkholm [Autochecker: Test Your Modules in All Node Versions](http://victorbjelkholm.github.io/autochecker/)Test your modules simultaneously in 32 different versions of Node. Why? If you’re releasing a library, knowing it’s widely compatible across versions is key. niftylettuce [Automated CI Setup for No Downtime App Deployment](http://niftylettuce.com/posts/automated-node-app-ci-graceful-zerodowntime-github-pm2/)A walkthrough of configuring an automated continuous integration and deployment setup for a Node app using GitHub, PM2 & SemaphoreCI. OpbeatSponsor [New Relic, but built for Node.js](https://opbeat.com/)Pinpoint performance issues and build faster Node.js apps. See how your app spends its time (database, cache, external http requests), where it needs optimizing, and who wrote the slow code. [![Opbeat\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/785ac04a.png)](https://opbeat.com/) Elad Nava [Deploying Resilient Node.js Apps with Forever and Nginx](https://eladnava.com/deploying-resilient-node-js-apps-with-forever-and-nginx/)A quick guide to deploying a Node app in production, specifically aimed at Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. ReadWrite [How Node.js Created A Model Open Source Community](http://readwrite.com/2016/04/15/how-node-js-model-open-source-community-pl1/)A high level look at the work that has taken place to make the Node.js community a notably collaborative one. Rob Conery [Massive 2.0: Postgres-based Data Access Tool for Node](https://github.com/robconery/massive-js)Loads your tables, Postgres functions, and query files up as functions; supports full text search; has full JSONB document support; has a REPL; and more. We mentioned this a year ago but it continues to be improved. Jobs - [craigslist seeks JavaScript Developers (San Francisco, CA)](http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/eng/5480685169.html?#) CL seeks web devs with JavaScript, Node.js, CSS, and HTML experience to join a small (~50), tech-driven, laid-back workplace to design and ship new features daily, and see them loved (or hated) by millions. 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