--- title: "#213: A Compilation of Node Best Practices" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 213 published_at: "2017-11-09" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/213" --- #213: A Compilation of Node Best Practices This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/213) Node WeeklyNovember 9, 2017 #213 Yoni Goldberg [A Curated Compilation of Node Best Practices](https://github.com/i0natan/nodebestpractices)Curated from many popular articles over the years comes this still-in-development summarized list of best practices covering topics from error handling to memory use. Node.js Foundation [Node v9.1.0 (Current) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v9.1.0/)OpenSSL upgraded, the `http` module now supports the 103 (Early Hints) status code, and you can now set a stack trace limit in `NODE_OPTIONS`. 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