--- title: "This Week's Node.js News - Issue 173" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 173 published_at: "2017-02-02" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/173" --- This Week's Node.js News - Issue 173 This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/173) Node WeeklyFebruary 2, 2017 #173 Node.js Foundation [Node v7.5.0 (Current) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v7.5.0/)npm gets upgraded to 4.1.2, openssl gets upgraded, crypto now lets you select certificate store at runtime and uses system CAs instead of bundled ones. Node.js Foundation [Node Foundation Working on a Node Certification Program](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/announcements/nodejs-certified-developer-program/)In collaboration with the Linux Foundation, the Node.js Foundation will be launching a vendor-neutral certification program for Node engineers. Taron Foxworth [Building A Talking Quotations Device with a Raspberry Pi](https://www.losant.com/blog/speech-synthesis-on-the-raspberry-pi-using-node.js)Walkthrough of joining together Node, Amazon Polly, Losant, Airtable, a Raspberry Pi, and a button to build an ‘inspiration station’ ([video of the final device](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPudf8GRO78)). TwilioSponsor [Twilio presents SIGNAL: The Developer Conference for Communications](https://twilio.com/signal)Join fellow developers May 24-25 at SIGNAL for two days of technical sessions in San Francisco and build the future of communications together. [![Twilio\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/d2563b01.png)](https://twilio.com/signal) Jon Schlinkert [Breakdance: Node Library to Convert HTML to Markdown](http://breakdance.io/)Parses HTML with [cheerio](https://github.com/cheeriojs/cheerio) and then renders Markdown where possible. Colin Ihrig [Building and Embedding Node as a Shared Library](https://blog.continuation.io/building-and-embedding-node-js-as-a-shared-library/)A walkthrough of how to create a shared library from the Node.js source and then embed it within a C++ app. Node.js Foundation [Interested in Contributing to Node's Core? Here's How](https://medium.com/@nodejs/interested-in-contributing-to-node-js-core-read-on-5614f60d074d)The Node Foundation are very keen for new people to get involved with contributing to the core Node codebase itself. This post fleshes out some ways to get going if you’re interested. In Brief - [Node v4.7.3 and v6.9.5 (LTS) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v4.7.3/) news [6.9.5 here](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v6.9.5/). Node.js Foundation - [Tips for Debugging V8 (as used in Node's core) with GDB](https://medium.com/@franziiii/debug-v8-in-node-js-core-with-gdb-cc753f1f32) tutorial Some advanced tidbits if you need to do this. Franziska Hinkelmann - [Authenticating Node-RED with JSONWebToken](https://www.compose.com/articles/authenticating-node-red-with-jsonwebtoken/?utm_source=cooper&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=node) Node-RED is great for prototyping, but how do you keep the bad guys from using your endpoints? Find out [here](https://www.compose.com/articles/authenticating-node-red-with-jsonwebtoken/?utm_source=cooper&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=node). ComposeSponsor - [Writing a Cron Job Microservice with Serverless and AWS Lambda](https://blog.readme.io/writing-a-cron-job-microservice-with-serverless-and-aws-lambda/) tutorial ReadMe Blog - [How to Use the Twitter API from Node](https://dzone.com/articles/how-to-use-twitter-api-using-nodejs) tutorial Deepak Mehra - [CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) Explained](https://blog.risingstack.com/cqrs-explained-node-js-at-scale/) tutorial Péter Márton - [Using Let’s Encrypt with Express](https://medium.com/@yash.kulshrestha/using-lets-encrypt-with-express-e069c7abe625) tutorial Yash Kulshrestha - [A Look at ES7 (ES2016) and ES8 (ES2017) Features](https://node.university/blog/498412/es7-es8) tutorial Azat Mardan - [Adventures with npm — One Dev's Experience in Transitioning to Yarn](https://medium.com/work-market-engineering/adventures-with-npm-shrinkwrap-facebook-yarn-fc157b713ac4) story Tim McClure - [Dangerous Module Design Patterns](http://thenodeway.io/posts/dangerous-module-design-patterns/) opinion Fred K. Schott - [Server-Side Rendering Shootout with Marko, Preact, Rax, React and Vue](https://hackernoon.com/server-side-rendering-shootout-with-marko-preact-rax-react-and-vue-25e1ae17800f#.ujwn5iafu) opinion Michael Rawlings - [Image Processing and Manipulation in Node.js](https://pusher.com/sessions/meetup/js-monthly-london/image-processing-and-manipulation-in-nodejs?utm_source=nodeweekly=cooperpress-sponsored-link-early2017=email) video In this talk produced by Pusher, Eyal tells us about how he built the perfect Node image processing library. PusherSponsor - [npm-module-stats: Get Recursive File Size of NPM Modules Without Installing](https://www.npmjs.com/package/npm-module-stats) tools - [JSDOW: Chart Download Numbers for npm Packages](http://www.jsdow.com/) tools - [Snapdragon: A Pluggable, Powerful, Easy-to-use Parser-Renderer Factory](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/snapdragon) code With source map support. Jon Schlinkert - [Jimp: A Pure JavaScript Image Processing Library](https://github.com/oliver-moran/jimp) code Can do resizing, cropping, blurring, etc. Oliver Moran - [promised-pipe: A ramda.pipe-like Utility That Handles Promises Internally Without Dependencies](https://github.com/kirillrogovoy/promised-pipe) code Kirill Rogovoy - [Simple Statistics: Statistical Methods in Readable JavaScript](http://simplestatistics.org/) code Averages to variance to probabilities to Bayesian classification. Tom MacWright - [Node is in High Demand - Shouldn't Companies Apply to You?](https://hired.com/join/?utm_source=petercooperpress&utm_medium=sponsor&utm_campaign=%28b2c%29%28l-all%29%28r-swe%29%28q1-17-node-weekly%29&utm_content=newsletter) Finding a Node job shouldn't feel like work. Try Hired Today and get job offers with upfront compensation details. HiredSponsor Node Weekly is curated by [Peter Cooper](https://twitter.com/peterc) and published by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/). 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