--- title: "This Week's Node.js News - Issue 167" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 167 published_at: "2016-12-15" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/167" --- This Week's Node.js News - Issue 167 This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/167) Node WeeklyDecember 15, 2016 #167 Rahul J [Integrating Jenkins with GitHub, Node and Slack](https://lethalbrains.com/integrating-jenkins-with-github-node-js-and-slack-e8fc4d2271b5)Walkthrough of rolling out a continuous integration system for a Node app in a private Github repository, complete with Slack notifications. The npm Blog [npm 5, Specifications, and npm's RFC Process](http://blog.npmjs.org/post/154473364440/npm5-specifications-and-our-rfc-process)As npm works on npm 5, they’re trying a new process for soliciting feedback and explain how it works here if you want to get involved. 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[date-fns: A Modern JavaScript Date Utility Library](https://github.com/date-fns/date-fns)Bills itself as ‘like lodash for dates’, it has over [140 functions](https://date-fns.org/docs/) for manipulating dates in a variety of ways. Andras Toth [JavaScript Clean Coding Best Practices](https://blog.risingstack.com/javascript-clean-coding-best-practices-node-js-at-scale/)This post covers general clean coding guidelines for naming and using variables & functions, as well as some JavaScript specific clean coding best practices. Jobs - [Senior Software Engineer](http://app.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?nl=1&k=Apply&j=oaz63fwC&s=Node_Weekly&su=ffO9VfwR) Kink is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our awesome team in the heart of San Fran’s Mission District. if you’re an experienced engineer who wants to work with smart people whilst having fun - [apply here](http://app.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?nl=1&k=Apply&j=oaz63fwC&s=Node_Weekly&su=ffO9VfwR). 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Node.js Foundation - [Getting Started with Amazon Polly (Text to Speech) using Node](https://medium.com/@anaptfox/getting-started-with-amazon-polly-using-node-js-345e84dbd23d) tutorial Taron Foxworth - [Beginner's Guide to Installing Node 7 on a Raspberry Pi](http://thisdavej.com/beginners-guide-to-installing-node-js-on-a-raspberry-pi/) tutorial Dave Johnson - [Power Prototyping with MongoDB and Node-RED](https://compose.com/articles/power-prototyping-with-mongodb-and-node-red-2/?utm_source=cooper&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=node) tutorial Learn how to quickly get your database backend fronted by a web service using Node-RED and MongoDB. 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