--- title: "Node 9.4, new npm package naming rules and how to be a better Node dev in 2018" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 220 published_at: "2018-01-11" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/220" --- Node 9.4, new npm package naming rules and how to be a better Node dev in 2018 This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/220) Node WeeklyJanuary 11, 2018 #220 Geoff Wagstaff [Running a Node App on AWS ECS: An EC2 Container Service Walkthrough](https://engineering.gosquared.com/running-node-app-amazon-ecs)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](https://engineering.gosquared.com/pt-2-running-node-app-amazon-ecs). The npm Blog [New npm Package Naming Rules](http://blog.npmjs.org/post/168978377570/new-package-moniker-rules)To prevent typosquatting and user confusion, npm Inc. has tweaked its package naming rules. For example, names are no longer punctuation sensitive. Gergely Nemeth [How to Become a Better Node.js Developer in 2018](https://nemethgergely.com/nodejs-best-practices-how-to-become-a-better-developer-in-2018/)A few straightforward best practices which could help you be a better Node developer in the coming year. Frontend MastersSponsor [📣 New Course: Advanced State in React with Redux, MobX & More](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/react-state/)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. [![Frontend Masters\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/7bf44f42.png)](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/react-state/) Node.js Foundation [Node v9.4 (Current) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v9.4.0/)No huge upgrades, but npm upgraded, several improvements to the `http2` module, buffer’s `readDouble` and `readFloat` are 2-8x faster. Vincent Mühler [Simple Face Recognition from Node](https://medium.com/@muehler.v/node-js-face-recognition-js-simple-and-robust-face-recognition-using-deep-learning-ea5ba8e852)[face-recognition.js](https://github.com/justadudewhohacks/face-recognition.js) is a Node wrapper for [dlib](https://github.com/davisking/dlib), a C++ machine learning library that can be manipulated to do facial recognition. Oliver Moran [Jimp: Image Processing Library with No Native Dependencies](https://github.com/oliver-moran/jimp)Covers resizing, cropping, color manipulations, and more. Pure JS and solely for Node. The npm Blog [An npm Operational Incident on January 6](http://blog.npmjs.org/post/169432444640/npm-operational-incident-6-jan-2018)106 packages appeared to be missing for a brief period of time which broke packages that depended on them. Jobs - [Full Stack JavaScript Developer (Berlin)](http://grnh.se/ehbgfc1) Full Stack Developer wanted to help build the next generation of Contentful content delivery services using Node.js and modern JavaScript. 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