Node Weekly Issue 177: March 2, 2017

Node Weekly

March 2, 2017 #177

Benedikt Meurer

V8: Behind the Scenes - A Tale of TurboFan

A well written, and rather technical, behind-the-scenes tale of the evolution of Turbofan, one of the V8 JavaScript engine’s optimizing compilers.

Matthias Etienne

Caporal.js: A Framework for Building Command Line Apps

Out of the box you get help generation, colored output, coercion and casting, typo suggestions, and auto-complete for Bash and Zsh.

Node.js Foundation

Node v7.7.1 (Current) Released

Node 7.7.0 was released yesterday but contained a bug that prevented native modules from loading, so 7.7.1 quickly followed.

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Valeri Karpov

Getting Started With WebAssembly in Node.js

Now complete enough to be enabled by default in browsers and has an official logo.

Almir Bijedic

Make a Skype Bot with Electron and the Microsoft Bot Framework

Once you had to hack around to create bots on Skype, but now there’s a fully approved way. This is a thorough walkthrough of using the Microsoft Bot Framework from Node.

Node.js Foundation

A Tooling Update from the Node Diagnostics Working Group

Notes on a few experimental diagnostic APIs and tools that have been added to Node recently, plus how Inspector is replacing the legacy V8 debugger.

Rachel White

Smart and Cuter Bots using Node

Instead of using text as fodder for this bot, Rachel shows how to make a Twitter bot in Node.js using Twitter’s API, ImageMagick, & Microsoft’s Face API to manipulate selfies with cute overlays.

Node.js Foundation

Why the Heck Would You Use Node.js?

An update to a 2013 post explaining the point of Node.js, ideal use cases and weak points. Could be handy to share with other developers or managers.

In Brief

Scale Node.js with N|Solid and Kubernetes on Azure Container Services tutorial
NodeSource
How to Optimize CPU-Intensive Work in Node.js tutorial
Graeme Boy
Build Modern and Scalable Node.js Web Apps with Nest tutorial
Kamil Mysliwiec
How to Parse HTTP from PCAP (Packet Capture) Files in Node tutorial
Petko D. Petkov
A Node Debugging Guide: Getting Started tutorial
Node.js Foundation
Getting started with Elasticsearch and Node.js tutorial
A five part article series on using Node with Elasticsearch. Episode 1 is about deployment, index and search.
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Real Time Delivery Updates with Slack, MongoDB & Tailable Cursors tutorial
Creating a custom Slack chat bot using Node, MongoDB Atlas, and MongoDB Compass.
Nick Parsons
NPM or Yarn? Node.js Devs Pick Their Package Manager story
Paul Krill
Multi-Part Analysis of Node Docker Image Sizes using Yarn vs NPM opinion
Using Yarn in place of NPM for your node dependency management is an easy win with Docker.
Ryan van Niekerk
Before You Bury Yourself in Packages, Learn The Node.js Runtime Itself opinion
“This article will challenge the very limits of your Node.js knowledge.”
Samer Buna
A Year With AWS video
In this talk, Andrew shares his experience on how to set up AWS with Node.js and some tips to do so.
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Lerna: A Tool for Managing JavaScript Projects with Multiple Packages tools
Optimizes the workflow around managing multi-package repositories with git and npm.
pg-large-object: 'Large Object' Support for Postgres in Node code
Store files/objects up to 4 TiB in size.
Joris van der Wel
Chroma for Node: Control Your Razer Keyboard, Right From Node code
For those with the fancy, lighting up gaming keyboards.
Felix Rieseberg