---
title: "An initial implementation of threading support via workers"
publication: "Node Weekly"
issue: 239
published_at: "2018-05-24"
canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/239"
---

The latest Node.js news, articles, tools, and projects.       

#239 — May 24, 2018 

[Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/239)   

Node Weekly   

[An Initial Implementation of Threading Support via Workers](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/20876) — _“This PR adds threading support for to Node.js. I realize that this is not exactly a small PR and is going to take a while to review…”_ Be sure to check out the example usage. 

Node.js Foundation   

[npm 6.1 (next.0) Released](https://blog.npmjs.org/post/174001864165/v610-next0) — The npm feature bumps keep coming thick and fast lately. This time the big new feature is `npm audit fix` which uses the results from 6.0’s new `npm audit` feature to upgrade insecure dependencies for you in a semver-compatible way. 

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Codeship sponsor   

[Node v10.2 (Current) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v10.2.0/) — 

- Built-in modules (e.g. fs) now provide named exports in ES6 modules.
- Fixed a memory leak for users of `AsyncResource `and N-API.
- Plus all the usual tweaks and bug-fixes. 

Node.js Foundation   

[Use MongoDB? Here's This Week's MongoDB News](https://mongodb.email/issues/17) — Yes, we have a weekly [MongoDB newsletter](https://mongodb.email/) too :-) The biggest news this week is the [first release candidate of MongoDB 4.0 is out](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mongodb-user/UWIPZEAKYiw/C5twgBwrCwAJ) which introduces multi-document ACID transaction support. 

MongoDB Weekly   

[Build a Basic CRUD App with Vue.js and Node](https://www.sitepoint.com/build-a-basic-crud-app-with-vue-js-and-node/) — Learn to scaffold a Vue project, offload authentication to Okta, lock down protected routes, and perform CRUD operations through a REST API server. 

SitePoint   

[Want To Speak at EmpireJS? NYC on September 20-21](http://2018.empirejs.org/#speak) — The CFP closes on June 15 so you’ve got a couple of weeks. 

EmpireJS  

💻 Jobs  

[Sr. Fullstack Engineer (Remote)](https://www.stickermule.com/careers) — Sticker Mule is looking for passionate developers to join our remote team. Come help us become the Internet’s best place to shop and work. 

Sticker Mule   

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Woo.io  

📘 Tutorials  

[How to Setup CI/CD Workflow for Node Apps with Jenkins and Kubernetes](https://medium.com/containerum/how-to-setup-ci-cd-workflow-for-node-js-apps-with-jenkins-and-kubernetes-360fd0499556) 

Anas El Barkani   

[How to Watch for File Changes from Node](http://thisdavej.com/how-to-watch-for-files-changes-in-node-js/) — Want to perform an action when a file updates? Here’s how. 

Dave Johnson   

[How Twilio Improves 'Mean Time To Discovery'](https://rollbar.com/customers/twilio/?utm_source=email-nl&utm_medium=email-nl&utm_campaign=email-nl) — "If my Mean Time To Discovery is based on a customer support ticket, I’ve failed." [Read more](https://rollbar.com/customers/twilio/?utm_source=email-nl&utm_medium=email-nl&utm_campaign=email-nl). 

ROLLBAR sponsor   

[Using Docker Compose for Node Development](https://blog.codeship.com/using-docker-compose-for-nodejs-development/) 

Kelly Andrews  

🔧 Code and Tools  

[Lass: Scaffold A Modern Package Boilerplate for Node](https://lass.js.org/#/) 

Nick Baugh   

[Winds 2.0: A Node-Powered RSS Reader App](https://getstream.io/blog/winds-2-0-its-time-to-revive-rss/) — An elegant open source feed reader app from Stream that brings together Node and MongoDB. 

Thierry Schellenbach   

[Full-Stack Monitoring for Node Apps](https://www.datadoghq.com/monitor-nodejs/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=CooperPress&utm_campaign=CooperPress-NodeWeeklyP) 

Datadog sponsor   

[Remote Function: Easy Remote Procedure Calls with ES6 Proxies](https://github.com/lindell/remote-function) — A quite idiomatic way to do RPC from Node using JSON RPC 2.0 and ES6 proxies. 

Johan Lindell   

[just-launch: Launch Any Browser on any OS](https://github.com/juliangruber/just-launch) — Abstracts calls to several other underlying libraries for launching specific browsers. 

Julian Gruber   

[make-dir: Make A Directory (and Parents, If Needed)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/make-dir) — It’s basically `mkdir -p` for Node and now supports Node 10. 

Sindre Sorhus   

[Node Web Console: A Simple Web-based SSH, Remote Shell in Your Browser](https://github.com/ChrisCindy/node-web-console) — Be aware of the security issues before using something like this on a server of your own. 

Chris Cindy   

[Marble.js: Functional Reactive HTTP Middleware Framework](https://github.com/marblejs/marble) — Uses TypeScript and RxJS. 

Marble.js         

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