---
title: "This Week's Node News - Issue 71"
publication: "Node Weekly"
issue: 71
published_at: "2015-01-29"
canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/71"
---

This Week's Node News - Issue 71

This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/71)

Node WeeklyJanuary 29, 2015 #71 StrongLoop 

[Announcing the Official Node.js Connector for the Oracle Database by Oracle](https://strongloop.com/strongblog/official-node-js-connector-oracle-database/)[node-oracledb](https://github.com/oracle/node-oracledb) is an Oracle database driver for Node, direct from Oracle itself.
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[Passenger-docker: Easily Make Docker Containers for Your Node.js Web Apps](https://github.com/phusion/passenger-docker)Passenger-docker is a Docker image meant to serve as a good base for Ruby, Python, Node.js and Meteor app images.
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[Node v0.10.36 (Stable) Released](http://blog.nodejs.org/2015/01/26/node-v0-10-36-stable/)A minor update with openssl updated, and two v8 bugs fixed.
 Mikeal Rogers 

[The State of io.js](https://medium.com/node-js-javascript/state-of-io-js-2b3094e6f923)A brief update on the runaway success of the io.js Node fork so far.
 Ben Strahan 

[Getting Started with Meteor.js](http://joshowens.me/getting-started-with-meteor-js/)A list of technologies, learning resources, libraries, packages and more, all related to getting going with the popular framework.


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In Brief

- [io.js Node Fork Now Available On Heroku](https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/595) news Heroku
- [ArangoDB in 10 Minutes: A Node.js Tutorial](https://www.arangodb.com/tutorial-node-js) tutorial
- [A NodeJS Recipe for Automating JavaScript Profiling in Chrome](https://github.com/paulirish/automated-chrome-profiling) code Paul Irish
- [json-schema-benchmark: Benchmarks for Node.js JSON-Schema Validators](https://github.com/Muscula/json-schema-benchmark) code Allan Ebdrup
- [shipit: A Universal Automation and Deployment Tool Written in JavaScript](https://github.com/shipitjs/shipit) tools 
An automation engine and a deployment tool written as a Capistrano alternative for people who don’t know Ruby. Shipit
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- [Mozaïk: A Node, React and Stylus-based Tool for Crafting Beautiful Dashboards](https://github.com/plouc/mozaik) code tools Raphaël Benitte
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- [Sane Stack: A JavaScript Stack based on Sails and Ember](http://sanestack.com/) code SaneStack
- [cheerio: jQuery for the Server](https://www.npmjs.com/package/cheerio) code 
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- [ttsmp3: Node.js Script to Download Text-to-Speech MP3 Files](https://github.com/5paceManSpiff/ttsmp3) code Aaron Landis
- [rainbird-neo4j: A Thin Wrapper Around the Neo4j REST Interface](https://github.com/RainBirdAi/rainbird-neo4j) code Rainbird Technologies
- [node-regedit: Read and Write to the Windows Registry from Node](https://github.com/ironSource/node-regedit) code ironSource
- [TreeQL: JSON Query and Mutation Library](https://github.com/idevelop/treeql) code Andrei Gheorghe
- [drive-db: A Google Drive Spreadsheet Simple Database (Node module)](https://github.com/FranciscoP/drive-db) code Francisco Presencia
- [Elasto: A Simple Library to Query ElasticSearch](https://github.com/StreetHub/elasto) code StreetHub

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