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title: "This Week's Node.js News - Issue 176"
publication: "Node Weekly"
issue: 176
published_at: "2017-02-23"
canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/176"
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This Week's Node.js News - Issue 176

This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/176)

Node WeeklyFebruary 23, 2017 #176 Node.js Foundation 

[Node v7.6.0 (Current) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v7.6.0/)Along with the usual fixes and upgrades comes an update of V8 to [V8 5.5](https://v8project.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/v8-release-55.html), bringing async functions natively to Node.
 Node.js Foundation 

[Balancing Quality with Speed in Node](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/community/quality-with-speed/)Michael Dawson and Myles Borins look at how the Node community works together to ensure both quality and performance levels are maintained via tests and benchmarks.
 Steve Sanderson 

[Building SPAs on ASP.NET Core with JavaScriptServices](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2017/02/14/building-single-page-applications-on-asp-net-core-with-javascriptservices/)A practical look at coupling Node with ASP.NET Core as the server-side platform for building a single page JavaScript app.
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 Gergely Nemeth 

[10 Best Practices for Writing Node.js REST APIs](https://blog.risingstack.com/10-best-practices-for-writing-node-js-rest-apis/)..including route naming, authentication, API testing and using proper cache headers.


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[Functional Programming in JavaScript with the Ramda Library](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk5rJuh_6IM)Using the JavaScript functional library Ramda, plus some features of ES5 to show off functional programming concepts. _30 minute video._


In Brief

- [Node v6.10.0 (LTS) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v6.10.0/) news Node.js Foundation
- [V8 Switching to A New Compiler Architecture After 5.8](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/v8-dev/YXpjhVeHlbI/iiYlrF8vCgAJ) news Michael Hablich
- [Node v4.8.0 (LTS) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v4.8.0/) news Node.js Foundation
- [Using Heroku with Node.js: Production-Ready Application Checklist](https://community.risingstack.com/using-heroku-node-js-production-ready-application-checklist/) tutorial Gergely Németh
- [Using Node 6 At Wikimedia for Stability and Substantial Memory Savings](https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/02/17/node-6-wikimedia/) story Marko Obrovac
- [Debugging Electron: A Journey](https://medium.com/@gness1804/debugging-electron-a-journey-e4e01ea481fb) story Graham Nessler
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- [How China Does Node with Shiya Luo](https://changelog.com/spotlight/10) podcast The Changelog
- [Trevor: Your Own Mini Travis CI to Run Tests Locally](https://github.com/vadimdemedes/trevor) tools 
It reads `.travis.yml` and runs tests in all Node versions requested. Vadim Demedes
- [pkg-ok: Prevents Publishing A Module with Incorrect Paths](https://github.com/typicode/pkg-ok) tools
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- [Axios: Promise Based HTTP Client for the Browser and Node](https://github.com/mzabriskie/axios) code Matt Zabriskie
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