--- title: "This Week's Node.js News - Issue 148" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 148 published_at: "2016-07-28" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/148" --- This Week's Node.js News - Issue 148 This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/148) Node WeeklyJuly 28, 2016 #148 Facebook [Create React App: Create React Apps with No Build Configuration](https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app)A new toolkit that brings together Webpack, Babel, ESLint and more to let you rapidly create React apps with no up-front build configuration. Meteor [Announcing Meteor 1.4: Updated Node & MongoDB Versions](http://info.meteor.com/blog/announcing-meteor-1.4)This update brings Meteor up to Node 4.4.7 (from 0.10.46), plus a jump from MongoDB 2.6 to 3.2. YouTube [Image Processing And Manipulation in Node](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze7IV-LnzwQ)At JS Monthly London, Eyal Arubas talked about issues with existing Node image processing modules and how he built his own alternative solution. TRACESponsor [process.findMemoryLeaks()](https://trace.risingstack.com/) Aaron Larner [Perk: A Node.js Web Framework](http://perkframework.com/)_“The goal of Perk is first and foremost to provide a well documented set of tools for building node web applications.”_ Node.js Foundation [Do You Want to Be Involved in the Node.js Engineer Certification?](https://medium.com/@nodejs/do-you-want-to-be-involved-in-the-node-js-engineer-certification-c3174e61e847)The Node.js Foundation are currently looking for volunteers to help define the scope of what’s tested for a _Node.js Certification._ Wern Ancheta [Build a Music Streaming App with Electron, React & ES6](https://www.sitepoint.com/music-streaming-app-electron-react-es6/)A complete tutorial bringing together numerous modern Web technologies to create a simple desktop music player. 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NodeSourceSponsor - [Node.js Interactive Europe 2016 (Amsterdam, Sep 15-18)](http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/node-interactive-europe) news The Linux Foundation - [Node v6.3.1 (Current) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v6.3.1/) news Node.js Foundation - [Designing Easily Unit Testable AWS Lambda Functions](https://claudiajs.com/tutorials/designing-testable-lambdas.html) tutorial Gojko Adzic - [How to Write Better CLI Tools with Node](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeYOcxHmol4) video A talk featuring Robert Kowalski, author of The CLI Book. Cooper Press - [Watch talks from NodeConf & Web Rebels, or choose from 100+ great talks](https://opbeat.com/community/?utm_source=nodeweekly&utm_medium=newsletter) video The Opbeat Community site is where we share great resources like recorded conference talks, meetup videos, interviews, tutorials, and more. Take a look around. Opbeat CommunitySponsor - [A Discussion on Publishing JavaScript Packages](https://javascriptair.com/episodes/2016-07-20/) podcast Several developers discuss the challenges and tools involved. _70 minutes._ JavaScript Air - [Why Do Libraries Omit --save in Their 'npm install' in Their Docs?](https://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/4udefk/why_do_all_the_libraries_omit_save_in_their_npm/) opinion Reddit - [Node Docker Test: Test Node Projects Across Multiple Node Versions](https://github.com/mrkmg/node-docker-test) tools Uses Docker. Kevin Gravier - [React Monocle: A Tool to Visualize A React Application's Component Hierarchy](https://github.com/team-gryff/react-monocle) code - [solr-client: A Solr Client for Node](https://github.com/lbdremy/solr-node-client) code Remy Loubradou - [task.js: Simplified Interface for Running CPU Intensive Code Across All Cores](https://github.com/icodeforlove/task.js/tree/master) code Chad Scira - [Action Cable Extracted From Rails 5 and Packaged as a Node.js Module](https://github.com/tomchinery/action-cable-node) code Tom Chinery - [Server Components: Composable HTML Rendering in Node](https://github.com/pimterry/server-components) code Based on browser-oriented Web Components. Tim Perry - [Claudia Bot Builder: Create AWS Lambda-Hosted Chatbots in Minutes](https://github.com/claudiajs/claudia-bot-builder) code Supports bots for Facebook Messenger, Slack, Skype and Telegram. - [Allora: Promisify Anything Using ES6 Proxies](https://github.com/GianlucaGuarini/allora) code Under 50 lines of code too. Gianluca Guarini - [Dory: A Blogging Platform Built on React](https://github.com/Wildhoney/Dory) code A responsive, universal, GitHub-collaborated blogging platform built on React and powered by Express. Adam Timberlake - [Stresser: Node-Powered HTTP(S) Endpoint Stress Tester](https://github.com/legraphista/stresser) code Ștefan-Gabriel Muscalu Node Weekly is curated by [Peter Cooper](https://twitter.com/peterc) and published by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/). Want to sponsor an issue? See our [media kit.](https://cooperpress.com/mediakit) Want to post a job? 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