Node Weekly
October 19, 2017  #210
Node.js Foundation
The Node.js project will be releasing new versions of 4.x, 6.x, and 8.x next week (roughly around October 24) to incorporate a major security fix.


Gergely Nemeth
Where we are with Node security, and some good security practices for your own Node apps.


Node Knockout
Registration is open for this popular 48-hour virtual hackathon focused on Node development. Taking place Nov 11-12.


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Arunesh Chandra
At Node.js Interactive 2017, Microsoft shared some updates, including that Node-ChakraCore is used to serve all of the traffic on the Microsoft Edge Developer portal and its involvement in running Node on iOS.


Dollar Shave Club
Checks JavaScript files against a specified version of ECMAScript with a shell command. This can be a way to test files were transpiled properly.


Node.js Foundation
Not much release wise to see yet but this will be a big deal, performance-wise.


Microsoft
An interesting project from Microsoft that, like Node, offers a V8 JavaScript runtime but is focused on having multiple V8 instances running at the same time.


Keith Horwood
“the easiest way to get started building & deploying web applications using new ‘serverless’ technology.”


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