--- title: "#192: Eight Habits of a Happy Node Hacker" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 192 published_at: "2017-06-15" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/192" --- #192: Eight Habits of a Happy Node Hacker This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/192) Node WeeklyJune 15, 2017 #192 Jeremy Morrell [8 Habits of a Happy Node Hacker (2017 Edition)](https://blog.heroku.com/node-habits-2017)[Last year’s edition](https://blog.heroku.com/node-habits-2016) was very popular, so it’s back. 8 more Node ‘habits’/best practices to consider. the morning paper [Node.fz: Fuzzing The Server-Side Event-Driven Architecture](https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/06/09/node-fz-fuzzing-the-server-side-event-driven-architecture/)Summary of [an academic paper](https://people.cs.vt.edu/~dongyoon/papers/EUROSYS-17-NodeFz.pdf) investigating causes of concurrency bugs in server-side event-driven systems, i.e. Node in this case. 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Eli Skeggs [Using CORS Policies to Implement CSRF Protection](https://mixmax.com/blog/modern-csrf)If you only need to support modern browsers this modern alternative to cross-site request forgery tokens is worth a look. Cooperpress [React Status: Our React-Focused Newsletter](http://react.statuscode.com/)If you work with React and haven’t heard about our React-focused newsletter yet, check it out. It’s been going really well. 🙂 SitePoint [FuseBox: A Faster, Simpler Webpack Alternative?](https://www.sitepoint.com/fusebox-faster-webpack-alternative/)Feras Khoursheed introduces us to Fusebox, a lightweight module bundler that serves as a simpler and potentially more flexible Webpack alternative. In Brief - [Node v8.1.1 (Current) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.1.1/) news A very minor bugfix update. Node.js Foundation - [Nodevember 2017 Tickets Now Available](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nodevember-2017-tickets-34928136998) news Nodevember is a two-day Node conference (Nov 27-28 in Nashville, TN). Eventbrite - [Survey: Node.js Developers Struggle with Debugging and Downtimes](https://blog.risingstack.com/survey-node-js-developers-struggle-with-debugging-and-downtimes/) news _“43% (..) spend more than 2 hours a week debugging their Node apps”_ RisingStack - [npm cli GitHub Project Issue Tracker Policy Updates](http://blog.npmjs.org/post/161832149430/npm-the-npm-github-issue-tracker-and-you) news The npm Blog - [All the developer services you want, wherever you want them](https://www.manifold.co/?utm_campaign=manifold-2017-wk-24&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=sponsorship&utm_content=node-weekly-1) Manifold enables you to purchase everything from RedisGreen to CloudAMQP with one account, on one bill. 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