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Released just 5 months ago, the  first version of Next.js was very popular. 2.0 makes building React-powered backends even easier with pre-fetching and component-based CSS support.
  
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J Cole Morrison
 
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 A full set of guides and tutorials to setup and deploy a Node, Express and Loopback API and a React Web App to AWS with Docker on ECS.
  
 
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Mostafa Gaafar
 
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 As of 7.6, Node now supports ES2016’s async and await features. This isn’t a deep dive but shows off some simple examples.
  
 
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Datadog
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 Graph and alert on custom Node metrics, and correlate with data from 150+ other technologies across your stack.
  
 
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Carlos Justiniano
 
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 Building a simple Node.js microservice and packaging it in a Docker container - then hosting the container on AWS.
  
 
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Node.js Foundation
 
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 npm gets an upgrade, buffers no longer segfault on out-of-range indexes, and a couple of other fixes, including a memory leak.
  
 
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Twitter
 
This week last year, the  left-pad npm package was unpublished, causing a cascade of failures.
  
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npm v4.5.0 Released news 
 Bug fixes and support for far smaller package metadata.  The npm Blog   
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Node.js LTS (Long-Term Support) Dates and Timings news 
 Wondering how long that older version of Node will be supported? Here’s a handy chart.  Node.js Foundation   
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How to build a live comment feature using NodeJS tutorial 
 Learn how you can build a web app with live comments using Pusher, NodeJS and Vanilla Javascript.  Pusher   Sponsor  
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What Does const Stand For in ES6? tutorial 
 Jacopo Daeli   
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A Brief Illustrated Guide to Garbage Collection in V8 tutorial 
 Ira Shestak   
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Use All The Databases (with GraphQL) - Part 1 tutorial 
 The author of GraphQL: The New REST shows how to combine data from multiple sources using GraphQL. Part 2 here.  Loren Sands-Ramshaw   
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Proxying WebSockets with NGINX video 
 Uses an Express and Socket.io app on the backend.  YouTube   
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An Introduction to Promises and Generators video 
 Not quite got your head around them yet? Here’s a 20 minute (re)introduction.  Ben August   
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Bedrock: A Collection of Frameworks To Quickly Set Up Node Webapps tools 
 Brings together Sails, React, Webpack and more.  Tilo Mitra   
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Best Practices for Building Minimal Docker Images 
 In this eBook, we will look at ways to streamline your Docker image as small as possible, using code examples to highlight strategies.  Codeship   Sponsor  
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FSM-as-Promised: A Finite State Machine Library built on ES6 Promises code 
 Vlad Stirbu   
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Buttercup: A Node-Powered Password Vault Desktop App code 
    
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Ohm: A Library & Language for Building Parsers, Interpreters, and Compilers code 
 HARC   
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DraftLog: Updatable Log Lines in the Terminal code 
 A building block for dynamic elements such as progress bars or loading status.  Ivan Seidel   
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create-dmg: Create a macOS DMG From a Mac .app code 
 Sindre Sorhus   
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The Best Node Jobs All in One Place - Try Hired 
 On Hired, companies apply to you! Node is in high demand, find the right fit with 6,000+ innovative companies.  Hired   Sponsor  
 
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