--- title: "This Week's Node.js News - Issue 170" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 170 published_at: "2017-01-12" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/170" --- This Week's Node.js News - Issue 170 This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/170) Node WeeklyJanuary 12, 2017 #170 Sitepoint [10 Tips to Become a Better Node Developer in 2017](https://www.sitepoint.com/10-tips-to-become-a-better-node-developer/)Azat Mardan presents ten tips, tricks and best practices to help you become a better Node developer in the year ahead. Gergely Nemeth [Yarn vs npm: The State of Node.js Package Managers](https://blog.risingstack.com/yarn-vs-npm-node-js-package-managers/)A look at the current state of Node.js package managers, what they can do for you, and when you might pick each one. Node.js Foundation [What’s It Like Being on the Node.js Foundation Board of Directors?](https://medium.com/@nodejs/whats-it-like-being-on-the-node-js-foundation-board-of-directors-f9456b8b7c4d)Nominations for a seat on the [Node.js Foundation Board are open for a few more days](https://github.com/nodejs/membership/issues/40). Here, Todd Moore shares his perspective of sitting on the board. Frontend MastersSponsor [New Course: ⚡️ ES6 The Right Parts with Kyle Simpson](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/es6-right-parts/)Uncover how to think deeply about new ES6 JavaScript features like arrow functions, destructuring, generators, classes and computed properties with Kyle Simpson of the "You Don't Know JS" book series! [![Frontend Masters\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/bd6761c2.png)](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/es6-right-parts/) Tomáš Stankovič [An Introduction to Computer Vision in Node](https://community.risingstack.com/opencv-tutorial-computer-vision-with-node-js/)Learn how to work with computer vision using OpenCV in this tutorial that explains the basic principles with real-life use cases. James Long [Prettier: A New, Opinionated JavaScript Formatter](http://jlongster.com/A-Prettier-Formatter)A new JavaScript code formatter from James Long that supports ES2017, JSX and Flow. He explains it here, along with a live demo, and [here’s the repo](https://github.com/jlongster/prettier). Razorframe [Razorframe: A Library for Building Real-Time Apps](http://www.razorfra.me/)Lets Node developers more easily build real-time client experiences while maintaining scalable, async back-end operations. [Repo here](https://github.com/team-emt/razorframe). 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Hired In Brief - [Node-RED Version 0.16 Released](http://nodered.org/blog/2017/01/11/version-0-16-released) news Node-RED - [MongoDB Ransom Attacks Hit 20,000+ Servers](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mongodb-apocalypse-is-here-as-ransom-attacks-hit-10-000-servers/) news Not Node specific but Mongo is heavily used in the Node world so be aware. Catalin Cimpanu - [How to Host a Node.js App on Digital Ocean](https://scotch.io/tutorials/how-to-host-a-node-js-app-on-digital-ocean) tutorial Incredibly thorough. Ganga Chris - [Build Your First Node.js Microservice (with Micro)](http://mxstbr.blog/2017/01/your-first-node-microservice/) tutorial Max Stoiber - [Bring observability to your Node apps](https://www.datadoghq.com/monitor-nodejs/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=CooperPress&utm_campaign=CooperPress-NodeWeekly&utm_content=node) See custom app metrics alongside detailed data from the rest of your stack. Try Datadog free for 14 days. DatadogSponsor - [Monitor Node Dependencies with npm-check](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efyNSmoBoiY) video YouTube - [Employee Directory: A Sample Application with React Native and Node.js](http://coenraets.org/blog/2017/01/react-native-sample-app-tutorial/) video Christophe Coenraets - [NoSQL Injections in Node.js: The Case of MongoDB](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcoecqFUjeU) video Vladimir de Turckheim - [Who Bears the Burden of Ensuring NPM Module Security?](http://thenewstack.io/determining-bears-burden-ensuring-npm-module-security/) podcast Kiran - [When Node is The Wrong Tool for the Job](https://medium.com/@jongleberry/when-node-js-is-the-wrong-tool-for-the-job-6d3325fac85c) opinion Jonathan Ong - [Full root access on lightning fast, dependable Linode servers.](http://welcome.linode.com/node-weekly?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=sponsored&utm_term=go&utm_campaign=node-weekly) No better place for a Node.js app. LinodeSponsor - [Awesome Hyper: Plugins, Themes and Resources for Hyper](https://github.com/bnb/awesome-hyper) tools [Hyper](https://hyper.is/) is the JavaScript-powered terminal app. Tierney Coren - [router-middleware: Express-Style Middleware Router Supporting Stream Based Templating](https://github.com/rook2pawn/router-middleware) code David Wee - [micro-analytics: Public Analytics as a Node.js Microservice](https://github.com/mxstbr/micro-analytics) code Max Stoiber - [xorshift128+ Implementation for Node.js](https://github.com/LinusU/node-xorshift128plus) code A good seedable random number generation algorithm. Linus Unnebäck - [node-rake: Rapid Automatic Keyword Extraction from Documents](https://github.com/waseem18/node-rake) code Still under development but looks promising. Wasim Thabraze - [pi-bots: A Simple System for Running Twitter Bots from a Raspberry Pi](https://github.com/keithcollins/pi-bots) code Includes a few sample bots too. Keith Collins - [Structure: A Simple Schema/Attributes Library](https://talyssonoc.gitbooks.io/structure/content/) code Talysson de Oliveira Cassiano 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? E-mail us or [use our self-serve system.](https://booking.cooperpress.com/jobs) [Unsubscribe](*|UNSUB|*) : [Change email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*) : [Read this issue on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/170) © Cooperpress Ltd. 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