--- title: "This Week's Node.js News - Issue 147" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 147 published_at: "2016-07-21" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/147" --- This Week's Node.js News - Issue 147 This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/147) Node WeeklyJuly 21, 2016 #147 Guillermo Rauch [HyperTerm: An Open, Node-Powered Terminal Emulator](https://hyperterm.org/)Open source and extensible. Extensions are Node modules loaded by both Electron and the app's renderer. Ian Bull [Running Node on the JVM](http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2016/07/20/running-node-js-on-the-jvm/)The Java & JVM ecosystem remains important in software development and J2V8 makes it possible to run Node within the JVM and interact between both environments. Uri Shaked [Exploring the Physical Web (Without Buying Beacons)](https://medium.com/@urish/exploring-the-physical-web-without-buying-beacons-efae51e36c2e)“The Physical Web lets you anchor URLs to physical places by way of a BLE beacon.” And it’s possible to use your normal computer to do this, instead of hardware beacons. HerokuSponsor [Composing Features with Full Stack Services](https://blog.heroku.com/emarsys-service-sizing?c=7013A000000mLcUQAU&utm_campaign=Display%20-%20Endemic%20- Cooper%20- Node%20-%20Blog%20-%20Emarsys-Service-Sizing&utm_medium=display&utm_source=cooperpress&utm_content=blog&utm_term=java)Heroku customer Emarsys shares their approach to sizing microservices. [Read More.](https://blog.heroku.com/emarsys-service-sizing?c=7013A000000mLcUQAU&utm_campaign=Display%20-%20Endemic%20-Cooper%20-Node%20-%20Blog%20-%20Emarsys-Service-Sizing&utm_medium=display&utm_source=cooperpress&utm_content=blog&utm_term=java) [![Heroku\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/bea511c1.png)](https://blog.heroku.com/emarsys-service-sizing?c=7013A000000mLcUQAU&utm_campaign=Display%20-%20Endemic%20- Cooper%20- Node%20-%20Blog%20-%20Emarsys-Service-Sizing&utm_medium=display&utm_source=cooperpress&utm_content=blog&utm_term=java) Alexa [Official Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Node.js Released](https://github.com/alexa/alexa-skills-kit-sdk-for-nodejs)_Skills_ are capabilities of Amazon’s voice controllable _Echo_ device and Amazon has released an official Node SDK for building Alexa Skills easily. Kevin Ndung'u [Mocking External HTTP Requests in Node Tests with Nock](https://semaphoreci.com/community/tutorials/mocking-external-http-requests-in-node-tests-with-nock)Avoid the challenges of testing code that depends on external services and APIs by using Nock to test HTTP requests in isolation. Péter Márton [Moving a Node App from PaaS to Kubernetes](https://blog.risingstack.com/moving-node-js-from-paas-to-kubernetes-tutorial/)Learn how to move a Node.js app on to Kubernetes to achieve lower response times and costs, plus improved security. Node.js Survey [The Node.js Survey](https://survey.risingstack.com/)A member of the Node.js Foundation is conducting a survey to better understand how Node is being used in production. Jobs - [Stop Applying to Jobs - Let Companies Come To You](https://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=petercooperpress&utm_campaign=q3-16-nodeweekly) On Hired, engineers typically get 5+ job offers in 1 week. 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Frontend MastersSponsor - [How to Make Express Work More Like Hapi](https://medium.com/@andrezzoid/how-to-make-express-work-more-like-hapi-f41d110c519c) tutorial André Jonas - [Lazy Load NVM (Node Version Manager) for Faster Shell Start](http://broken-by.me/lazy-load-nvm/) tutorial Broken By Me - [Debugging Node.js Nightlies with Chrome DevTools](https://medium.com/@paul_irish/debugging-node-js-nightlies-with-chrome-devtools-7c4a1b95ae27) tutorial A quick, straightforward introduction. Paul Irish - [Writing Promise-Based Coroutines in Node](http://tobyho.com/2015/12/27/promise-based-coroutines-nodejs/) tutorial Toby Ho - [Rust for Node.js developers, Part 1: Introduction to Rust](http://fredrik.anderzon.se/2016/05/10/rust-for-node-developers-part-1-introduction/) tutorial Fredrik Andersson - [Streaming Data From C++ to Node](http://blog.scottfrees.com/streaming-data-from-c-to-node-js) tutorial Scott Frees - [Testing HTTP APIs With SuperTest](https://dzone.com/articles/testing-http-apis-with-supertest) tutorial tools SuperTest is a Node-powered HTTP assertions tool. Benjamin Young - [Create Web Page Screenshots with Node and SlimerJS](https://davidwalsh.name/slimerjs-screenshots) tutorial David Walsh - [How I Manage Multiple Node.js Versions](http://steelbrain.me/2016/07/19/how-i-manage-multiple-node-js-versions.html) opinion Steel Brain - [5 Habitual Mistakes Node Developers Often Make](https://medium.com/@jameswilliam723/5-habitual-mistakes-node-js-developers-often-make-78d24e6aa42) opinion James William - [nwm: A Window Manager for X11 Written in Node](http://mixu.net/nwm/) tools Ready to use and does all the main things you need. Mikito Takada - [Find and Fix Production Errors Faster (and have fun doing it)](https://rollbar.com/features/?utm_source=node_weekly&utm_medium=email-nl&utm_term=node_weekly_7_21&utm_campaign=nl_sponsorship) tools Quickly pinpoint what’s broken and why. Get the context and insights to defeat _all_ application errors. 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