--- title: "#203: The Node.js CTC and TSC Have Merged" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 203 published_at: "2017-08-31" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/203" --- #203: The Node.js CTC and TSC Have Merged This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/203) Node WeeklyAugust 31, 2017 #203 Irina Shestak [async_hooks in Node, Illustrated](https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/async-hooks-in-node-js-illustrated-b7ce1344111f)async_hooks is a new, and still experimental, API introduced in Node 8 that lets you register callbacks tracking the lifetime of asynchronous resources. Emad Ehsan [Getting Started with Puppeteer and Chrome Headless for Web Scraping](https://medium.com/@e_mad_ehsan/getting-started-with-puppeteer-and-chrome-headless-for-web-scrapping-6bf5979dee3e)A tutorial on using Chrome Headless from Node to retrieve data from normal Web pages. _Note: Be careful of what you scrape and if you’re allowed to._ RollbarSponsor [#1 Way to Detect, Diagnose and Defeat Errors 🏆](https://rollbar.com/nodeweekly)Reduce time wasted debugging. Automatically capture errors in Node apps. Rollbar detects when code breaks in real-time and provides full stack trace and diagnostic data to help you defeat pesky Node errors. [Learn more](https://rollbar.com/nodeweekly). Camillo Bruni [Fast Properties in V8](http://v8project.blogspot.com/2017/08/fast-properties.html)A look at how V8 handles object properties. Worth a read if you like to have a technical, under-the-hood sense of what’s going in V8. nearForm [Architecting Electron Applications for 60 FPS](https://www.nearform.com/blog/architecting-electron-applications-for-60fps/)A deep-dive into optimizations that should be made to achieve smooth rendering, and a low resource footprint for [Electron](https://electron.atom.io/) on all platforms. Node.js Foundation [The Node.js CTC and TSC Have Merged Together](https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/pull/317)This stems from the CoC enforcement issues raised [in this article](https://thenewstack.io/node-js-forked-complaints-repeated-harassment/) from last week. In Brief - [Node.js 2017 User Survey - Executive Summary [PDF\]](https://nodejs.org/static/documents/casestudies/Nodejs_2017_User_Survey_Exec_Summary.pdf) news A presentation of key findings from the recent Node.js user survey. 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