--- title: "This Week's Node.js News - Issue 171" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 171 published_at: "2017-01-19" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/171" --- This Week's Node.js News - Issue 171 This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/171) Node WeeklyJanuary 19, 2017 #171 The npm Blog [Improved Search in the 'npm' CLI (and How We Got Here)](http://blog.npmjs.org/post/156076312840/search-update)A walk through the history of search through both the npm tool and on the Web, and what’s coming up next. Vladimir de Turckheim [How to Find Node Performance Optimization Killers](https://community.risingstack.com/how-to-find-node-js-performance-optimization-killers/)What “dynamic performance optimization” means in Node, and a look at ways to detect optimized and deoptimized functions in your code. Sitepoint [10 Node Best Practices: Enlightenment from the Node Gurus](https://www.sitepoint.com/node-js-best-practices-from-the-node-gurus/)Azat Mardan outlines 10 Node.js best practices you should be following in order to level up your Node skills today. ROLLBARSponsor [Wanna Less Buggy Node App?](https://rollbar.com/?utm_source=nodeweekly&utm_medium=email-nl&utm_term=nodeweekly_1_19&utm_campaign=nl_sponsorship)Rollbar detects and alerts you when code breaks in production. Get the stack trace, code, data to help you d̶e̶b̶u̶g̶ defeat Node errors. 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Jorge Bay [Improve Your Node App Throughput One Micro-Optimization at a Time](https://www.infoq.com/articles/node-micro-optimizations-javascript)Insights on areas that cause throughput degradation along with tips for how to boost performance of your app. Tamas Hodi [Async Best Practices and Avoiding Callback Hell](https://blog.risingstack.com/node-js-async-best-practices-avoiding-callback-hell-node-js-at-scale/)A quick look at some of the techniques you have at your disposal when working with asynchronous operations. Nolan Lawson [How to Write A Package for Both Node and The Browser](https://nolanlawson.com/2017/01/09/how-to-write-a-javascript-package-for-both-node-and-the-browser/)A look at dealing with modules that need to deal with differences between environments. In Brief - [Speeding Up Regular Expressions in V8](http://v8project.blogspot.com/2017/01/speeding-up-v8-regular-expressions.html) news The V8 team explains the under-the-hood changes speeding up regexes. 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Cloud 66 - [Handling EU VAT for Stripe and Braintree](http://blog.scaledrone.com/posts/managing-eu-vat-for-stripe-and-braintree) tutorial ScaleDrone - [Building JavaScript Microservices with SenecaJS and Compose](https://www.compose.com/articles/building-javascript-microservices-with-senecajs-and-compose/) tutorial John O'Connor - [Host, Publish and Manage Private npm Packages with Verdaccio](https://www.sitepoint.com/private-npm-packages-verdaccio/) tutorial Sitepoint - [A Case Study in Robotics with Node.js](http://joedevelops.com/2017/01/13/case-study-robotics-node-js/) story A look at implementing differential steering with joystick control. JoeDevelops - [npm State of the Union](https://www.linux.com/news/event/Nodejs/2016/state-union-npm) video At Node.js Interactive, Ashley Williams spoke about the npm registry’s size, the impact of left-pad, and more. 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