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title: "#201: Use ES Modules in Node Right Now"
publication: "Node Weekly"
issue: 201
published_at: "2017-08-17"
canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/201"
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#201: Use ES Modules in Node Right Now

This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/201)

Node WeeklyAugust 17, 2017 #201 John-David Dalton 

[Use ES Modules in Node Right Now](https://medium.com/web-on-the-edge/es-modules-in-node-today-32cff914e4b)[@std/esm](https://github.com/standard-things/esm) is a spec-compliant ES module loader for Node 4+ allowing you to transition more smoothly from CommonJS.
 Node.js Foundation 

[Node 8.4 (Current) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.4.0/)Just a week after 8.3, 8.4 is here with experimental support for http2 available behind a command line option.
 Google 

[Puppeteer: A Headless Chrome Node API](https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer)A Node library, maintained by the Chrome DevTools team, providing a high-level API to control headless Chrome using the DevTools protocol.
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 Yang Guo 

[The Background to Node's Hash Flooding Vulnerability](https://v8project.blogspot.com/2017/08/about-that-hash-flooding-vulnerability.html)An explanation of a vulnerability fixed in an update last month and how V8 is getting a longer-term high performance solution for it.
 Huan Li 

[FaceNet: TensorFlow-Backed Face Recognition and Verification](https://github.com/zixia/facenet)Work with facial recognition tools from Node. Mac & Linux only for now and also requires Python.
 Twilio 

[5 Ways to Make HTTP Requests in Node](https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/08/http-requests-in-node-js.html)Quick overviews of the http standard library, Request, Axios, SuperAgent, and Got.


In Brief

- [Support for the Performance Timeline Spec Coming to Node Soon](https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/timing-is-everything-6d43fc9fd416) news James A Snell
- [Real-time monitoring for your Node.js apps](https://www.datadoghq.com/ts/nodejs-monitoring/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=CooperPress&utm_campaign=CooperPress-NodeWeeklyS&utm_content=Node) 
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- [A Minimal Setup for Babel-Based npm Packages](http://2ality.com/2017/07/npm-packages-via-babel.html) tutorial Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
- [MEAN Stack: Developing An App with Angular 2+ and Angular CLI](https://www.sitepoint.com/mean-stack-angular-2-angular-cli/) tutorial SitePoint
- [Working with Environment Variables in Node](https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/08/working-with-environment-variables-in-node-js.html) tutorial Dominik Kundel
- [Build a Serverless Stripe Store in 5 Minutes with Node and StdLib](https://hackernoon.com/build-a-serverless-stripe-store-in-5-minutes-with-node-js-and-stdlib-d90352c89227) tutorial Keith Horwood
- [Node, Docker and the Theory of Relativity](https://medium.com/burke-knows-words/node-docker-and-the-theory-of-relativity-4d39b742db63) tutorial 
How to deploy a Node/Express app as a Docker container. Burke Holland
- [Set up a Netflix style streaming service with Node.js](https://bitmovin.com/encoding-documentation/encoding-api/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nodeweekly) BitmovinSponsor
- [CPU Profiling Node Apps and Services with N|Solid](https://nodesource.com/blog/cpu-profiling-node-js-applications-and-services-with-n-solid) video Tierney Cyren
- [Using MySQL With Node](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN6Dx22cPRI) video Traversy Media
- [#1 Way to Detect, Diagnose and Defeat Errors 🏆](https://rollbar.com/nodeweekly) tools 
Rollbar detects when code breaks in real-time. Get stack trace and diagnostic data to defeat Node errors. ROLLBARSponsor
- [Scotty.js: Deploy Static Websites to AWS S3 with a Single Command](https://github.com/stojanovic/scottyjs) tools Slobodan Stojanovic
- [npm-introspect: Examine and Visualize the Quality of Your Dependencies](https://github.com/Nohmapp/npm-introspect) tools Nohmapp
- [gtop: A Terminal-Based System Monitoring Dashboard](https://github.com/aksakalli/gtop) code Can Güney Aksakalli

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