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title: "This Week's Node.js News - Issue 154"
publication: "Node Weekly"
issue: 154
published_at: "2016-09-08"
canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/154"
---

This Week's Node.js News - Issue 154

This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/154)

Node WeeklySeptember 8, 2016 #154 Rod Vagg 

[Farewell to Node.js v5, Preparing for v7: The Plan](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/community/v5-to-v7/)Node 5.x is no longer getting any updates, and 7.x is around the corner, but what’s the long term plan for Node.js versioning? Learn more about Node’s future here.
 Tierney Coren 

[15 Essential Packages to Get Started With Electron](https://nodesource.com/blog/fifteen-essential-packages-to-get-started-with-electron/)Electron makes it easy to build cross-platform desktop apps with Web technologies. These tools bring packagers, debuggers, and testing into the mix.
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[Learn Node.js: A Free Course for Node Beginners](https://hyperdev.com/help/learn-node-js-free-beginner-course/)Based on Manuel Kiessling’s _Node Beginner Book_ and uses the online _Hyperdev_ development environment.
 Pedro Teixeira 

[Build More Reliable Webapps with Offline-First Principles](http://thenewstack.io/build-better-customer-experience-applications-using-offline-first-principles/)A high level look at how Node and PouchDB can collaborate to enable apps built using offline-first principles.


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In Brief

- [Ember Node.js LTS Support](http://emberjs.com/blog/2016/09/07/ember-node-lts-support.html) news 
Ember will be following the Node.js Long Term Support Schedule. Nathan Hammond
- [[Webinar\] Need to Node: Tracing the Event Loop using AsyncWrap](http://nsrc.io/event-loop-asyncwrap-nw) news 
Join Trevor Norris (10am PT on 22nd Sept) to explore AsyncWrap, gain an understanding of the event loop, how it enables a myriad of potential uses of its compact and simple API. NodeSourceSponsor
- [How to Deploy an Angular CLI Webpack Project to Heroku](https://www.angularonrails.com/deploy-angular-cli-webpack-project-heroku/) tutorial Jason Swett
- [A Node Chatbot Tutorial using Recast for Natural Language Parsing](https://medium.com/chat-bots-developers/a-nodejs-chatbot-tutorial-part-1-a2abd1b1c715) tutorial 
[Recast](https://recast.ai/) is a third party service. RecastAI
- [New Course: Complete Intro to React (feat. Redux & Router)](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/react-intro/) course 
Brian Holt (Netflix) introduces you to React plus surrounding ecosystem including: Redux for state management, React Router for navigation and more. Frontend MastersSponsor
- [The Effect of Connection Pooling on Node Performance](http://www.madhur.co.in/blog/2016/09/05/nodejs-connection-pooling.html) story Madhur Ahuja
- [A Panel Discussion on Node.js and Community](https://javascriptair.com/episodes/2016-09-07/) podcast 
Community builders and code contributors talk about how Node.js fosters and grows its community. _69 minutes_ JavaScript Air
- [How To Manage Your Node Servers Using Forever](https://askmacgyver.com/blog/tutorial/how-to-manage-your-node-servers-using-forever) video 
An 11 minute video on keeping a simple Node app running. Tim Moody
- [JavaScript (and Node.js) Continues To Eat The World](https://medium.com/presence-product-group/javascript-and-node-js-continue-to-eat-the-world-d41918a0615b) opinion 
Opinions based on spending two days at NodeSummit 2016. Dale Knauss
- [baidu-search: Perform Searches on Baidu from Node](https://www.npmjs.com/package/baidu-search) code
- [PiBakery: A Block-Based, Easy-to-Use Setup Tool for Raspberry Pi](https://github.com/davidferguson/pibakery) code 
Written using Node and Electron. David Ferguson
- [Speed Monitor: Website Performance Reports Sent to Slack](https://github.com/jacted/speed-monitor) code Jacob X
- [ZoneMTA: Modern Outbound SMTP Relay Built on Node.js and LevelDB](https://github.com/zone-eu/zone-mta) code 
Still a work in progress. Zone.eu
- [node-wifi-scanner: Scans Available WiFi Networks](https://nmotw.in/node-wifi-scanner/) code 
Return an array with objects representing each network. Hemanth.HM

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