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Geoff Wagstaff
 | If you’re using Amazon Web Services, ECS can be attractive way to run apps - this article digs into why and some of the things to watch out for when using it to run Node apps. Part 2 .
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The npm Blog
 | To prevent typosquatting and user confusion, npm Inc. has tweaked its package naming rules. For example, names are no longer punctuation sensitive.
 
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Gergely Nemeth
 | A few straightforward best practices which could help you be a better Node developer in the coming year.
 
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Frontend Masters
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 | Learn the patterns to manage state across large React applications. Take a tour through the popular approaches and libraries to state management like Flux, Redux, MobX, Redux Thunks and Redux Sagas in this new course by Steve Kinney.
 
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Node.js Foundation
 | No huge upgrades, but npm upgraded, several improvements to the http2module, buffer’sreadDoubleandreadFloatare 2-8x faster.
 
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Vincent Mühler
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face-recognition.js is a Node wrapper for dlib , a C++ machine learning library that can be manipulated to do facial recognition.
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Oliver Moran
 | Covers resizing, cropping, color manipulations, and more. Pure JS and solely for Node.
 
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The npm Blog
 | 106 packages appeared to be missing for a brief period of time which broke packages that depended on them.
 
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