--- title: "Hapi days are here again.." publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 347 published_at: "2020-07-16" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/347" --- This week's Node news, links, and releases. #347 — July 16, 2020 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/347) ☀️ Another quiet summery week in the Node community – we haven't got any big news (other than the revitalization of Hapi!) but plenty of code items :-) If you _do_ have any Node news or content for us though, just hit reply and let us know 😁 Node Weekly [Bree: A Powerful Node Job Scheduler with Workers and Cron Support](https://jobscheduler.net/) — Has built-in support for workers, cron expression syntax, human-friendly times, dates, and more. Want a practical example? Perhaps [how to use Bree for queueing email sends?](https://github.com/breejs/bree#nodejs-email-queue-job-scheduling-example) [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/breejs/bree) niftylettuce [Creating Tiny Desktop Apps with Tauri and Vue.js](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/07/tiny-desktop-apps-tauri-vuejs/) — [Tauri](https://tauri.studio/) is a toolkit (built in Rust) for building cross platform, JavaScript and CSS powered desktop apps, and the eventual app size can be pretty small (under a megabyte). Kelvin Omereshone [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/7fc2fd8f.png)](https://scoutapm.com?utm_source=nodeweekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=q3) [Scout APM Now Available for Node.js](https://scoutapm.com?utm_source=nodeweekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=q3) — Scout’s intuitive UI helps you quickly track down issues so you can get back to building your product. Rest easy knowing that Scout is tracking your apps performance and hunting down small issues before they become large issues. Get started for free. Scout APM sponsor [An Update on the Future of the Hapi Web Services Framework](https://github.com/hapijs/hapi/issues/4113) — Two weeks ago we referred to a (now deleted) tweet about how Hapi’s creators were looking at winding down the project, but it seems things have changed somewhat and they’re adopting new governance and looking to keep things going. hapi.js [How To Set Up a Node App for Production on Ubuntu](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-node-js-application-for-production-on-ubuntu-20-04) — Runs through setting up a production-ready Node.js environment on a single Ubuntu 20.04 server. This is for you if you want to do everything yourself on a VPS or your own server rather than a serverless, container-based, or other form of PaaS platform. 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