--- title: "Gatsby 2.0 Released" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 256 published_at: "2018-09-20" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/256" --- The latest Node.js news, articles, tools, and projects. #256 — September 20, 2018 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/256) Node Weekly [Gatsby 2.0: The Node and React-Powered Site Generator](https://www.gatsbyjs.org/blog/2018-09-17-gatsby-v2/) — The popular site and app generator Gatsby is emphasizing performance and developer experience in its latest release with build times reduced by up to 75%, the use of React 16, and a smaller client runtime. Kyle Mathews [Low.js: A Node Port for Embedded Devices](http://www.lowjs.org/) — V8 is replaced with Duktape, an embeddable JS engine with an even smaller footprint suited for small devices. [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/neonious/lowjs) neonious GmbH [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/8c536cff.jpg)](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/complete-react-v4/) [⚛️ New Course: Complete Intro to React, v4](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/complete-react-v4/) — Learn to build real-world applications in React. Much more than an intro, you’ll start from the ground up all the way to using the latest features in React 16+ like Context and Portals. _We also launched a follow up course, [Intermediate React](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/intermediate-react/)._ Frontend Masters sponsor [Improving DataView Performance in V8](https://v8project.blogspot.com/2018/09/dataview.html) — `DataView`s provide a low-level way to read and write multiple number types in binary `ArrayBuffer`s in a platform independent way but their performance has long lagged behind [TypedArray](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/TypedArray). That has now changed in the V8 JavaScript engine, and here are the end results. Théotime Grohens and Benedikt Meurer [Node v10.11.0 (Current) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v10.11.0/) — Not a significant release in terms of new things to play with. Node.js Foundation [Planning for Chalk 3](https://github.com/chalk/chalk/issues/300) — [Chalk](https://github.com/chalk/chalk) is one of the most popular npm packages and makes it easy to colorize and stylize text on the terminal. Sindre wants your input and suggestions on how to make Chalk 3 even better. Sindre Sorhus 💻 Jobs [Senior Engineer @ Meadow (San Francisco)](https://getmeadow.com/jobs) — Join Meadow as our fifth engineer to work on our specialized SaaS platform. We use Node.js, Postgres & React everyday. Meadow [Join Our Career Marketplace & Get Matched With a Job You Love](https://www.hired.com/node) — Through Hired, software engineers have transparency into salary offers, competing opportunities and job details. Hired 📘 Tutorials [Creating a Project using 'npm init initializer'](https://elijahmanor.com/npm-init-initializer/) — `npm init` used to solely be for creating a package.json file, but now it can interact with tools like create-react-app too. Elijah Manor [How to Bundle a Node App Into a Single Executable for Windows, Linux and macOS](https://dev.to/jochemstoel/bundle-your-node-app-to-a-single-executable-for-windows-linux-and-osx-2c89) — Using [pkg](https://www.npmjs.com/package/pkg). Jochem Stoel [A Beginner’s Guide to AWS Elastic Beanstalk using Node](https://levelup.gitconnected.com/beginners-guide-to-aws-beanstalk-using-node-js-d061bb4b8755) — [Elastic Beanstalk](https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/) is an orchestration service for deploying webapps onto Amazon Web Services. Harrison Lo [Eleven Tips to Scale Node.js](https://medium.com/microsoftazure/eleven-tips-to-scale-node-js-65cbf6deef6e) — Some rather high level suggestions in this collaboration between nearForm and Microsoft. Brian Holt [How to Run Express.js Apps with Netlify Functions](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2018/09/13/how-to-run-express.js-apps-with-netlify-functions/) — Netlify is a popular static Web site host whose _Functions_ service adds AWS Lambda-powered serverless functions to the mix. Mark Tse [The Most Innovative Businesses Are Deploying Apps on DigitalOcean](https://try.digitalocean.com/businesses/?utm_source=paid_newsletter+node+weekly&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=2018_Brand&utm_content=9-20-18+node+weekly+cooperpress) — Experience the developer-friendly cloud platform today with a free $100 credit toward your first project. DigitalOcean sponsor [Build a Telegram Bot that Translates Text in 3 Steps with Node and Code.xyz](https://medium.com/@notoriaga/build-a-telegram-bot-that-translates-text-in-3-steps-with-node-js-and-code-xyz-fa9d6309b659) Steve Meyer [How to Send an SMS Text Message using Amazon SNS from Node](http://www.joovintechcafe.info/amazon-sns/) South Joovin [Unit Testing for Node.js Serverless Framework Projects with Jest](https://serverless.com/blog/unit-testing-nodejs-serverless-jest/) Eslam Hefnawy 🔧 Code and Tools [Lyo: Publish Node.js Modules as Browser-Compatible Libraries](https://github.com/bokub/lyo) — A tool that brings Browserify, Babel, and UglifyJS together. Boris K [BundlePhobia: Find The Cost of Adding An npm Package to Your Bundle](https://bundlephobia.com/) Shubham Kanodia [Electron 3.0: The Cross Platform Desktop App Framework](https://electronjs.org/blog/electron-3-0) GitHub [circuit-b: A Non-Intrusive Circuit Breaker](https://github.com/trygve-lie/circuit-b) — Uses async hooks to provide fault protection for HTTP requests. Works at the net socket level to support almost any Node HTTP library. 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