--- title: "Node Best Practices, Machine Learning in Node with TensorFlow.js and more" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 250 published_at: "2018-08-09" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/250" --- The latest Node.js news, articles, tools, and projects. #250 — August 9, 2018 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/250) Node Weekly [![Dumper.js\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/c8leecutxvfai9a7rswv.jpg)](https://github.com/zeeshanu/dumper.js) [Dumper.js: A Pretty Variable Inspector for Node](https://github.com/zeeshanu/dumper.js) — If you’re one for ‘print-style’ debugging, this could prove very handy for you. You can either dump out the object of your choice (including nested objects) and keep running or terminate the process. 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