--- title: "This Week's Node News - Issue 73" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 73 published_at: "2015-02-12" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/73" --- This Week's Node News - Issue 73 This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/73) Node WeeklyFebruary 12, 2015 #73 Joyent [Joyent Moves to Establish Node.js Foundation](http://www.joyent.com/about/press/joyent-moves-to-establish-nodejs-foundation)Joyent, IBM, Microsoft, PayPal, Fidelity, SAP and The Linux Foundation have come together to establish a formal open governance model for Node. Official Node Blog [Node v0.12.0 (Stable) Released](http://blog.nodejs.org/2015/02/06/node-v0-12-0-stable/)It’s been a long time coming but there are lots of updates, including to Cluster, Streams, and HTTP. Also initial support for ECMAScript i18n API 1.0. io.js [io.js 1.2.0 Released](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/blob/v1.x/CHANGELOG.md#2015-02-10-version-120-rvagg) StormpathSponsor [New! Easy, Secure Token-Based Authentication for Single Page Applications](https://stormpath.com/blog/token-auth-spa/?utm_source=node%20weekly=email=SPAnode)The new Stormpath Angularjs SDK makes it easy to implement token or user authentication in single page apps - securely and easily! Backend support for Node, Express Java. [![Stormpath\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/a9909663.png)](https://stormpath.com/blog/token-auth-spa/?utm_source=node%20weekly=email=SPAnode) io.js [io.js and A Node.js Foundation: The Current State of Reconciliation](https://medium.com/@iojs/io-js-and-a-node-js-foundation-4e14699fb7be)Short and sweet but ‘talks with Joyent are ongoing’ and Joyent has invited the io.js team to discuss a reconciliation. Nodejitsu [Nodejitsu Joins GoDaddy, Will Shutdown](http://blog.nodejitsu.com/nodejitsu-joins-godaddy/)‘Nodejitsu products will continue to run for the next seven months, then shutdown.’ Its private npm registry product will be open sourced. 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Skyscanner In Brief - [NodeSource Raises $3 Million To Build New Programming Tools](http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/09/nodesource-raises-3-million-to-build-new-programming-tools/) news TechCrunch - [Want to Learn React.js from one of the Best React Devs in the World?](http://reactweek.com/?html5weekly) news React Week is a week-long workshop with Ryan Florence. Learn React, Flux + more. In Person or Online React WeekSponsor - [How to Use Azure Websites with io.js](http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-nodejs-iojs/) tutorial Microsoft Azure - [Better SQL Strings in io.js/Node.js](http://ivc.com/blog/better-sql-strings-in-node-js/) tutorial Leaning on template strings and generators to avoid ugly multi-line string concoctions. 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ModulusSponsor - ['Is There A Good Reason The io.js Installer Creates A Node Symlink?'](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/796) Brock Whitten - [Let's Chat: Self-hosted Chat for Small Teams](http://sdelements.github.io/lets-chat/) code An open source Node project. SD Elements Inc. - [Sentencer.js: A Node Module for Madlibs-style Sentence Templating](http://kylestetz.github.io/Sentencer/) code Worth checking out for the creepy logo alone. Kyle Stetz - [Cerebellum.js: Uncomplicated Isomorphic JavaScript Apps](http://sc5.io/posts/cerebellum-js-uncomplicated-isomorphic-javascript-apps) code Lari Hoppula - [nw-nija: A Minimal node-webkit (NW.js) Starter Project](https://github.com/kessler/nw-ninja) code Yaniv Kessler - [X-Ray: A New Web Scraper for Node](https://github.com/lapwinglabs/x-ray) code - [jsop: One-Way Data-Binding for JSON Files](https://github.com/typicode/jsop) code Requires io.js or Node 0.12 as it uses Object.observe. typicode - [watermark-best-corner: A Node.js Script to Calculate The Best Corner to Watermark A Image](https://github.com/rodrigoalviani/watermark-best-corner) code Rodrigo Alviani Node Weekly is curated by [Peter Cooper](https://twitter.com/peterc) and published by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/). Want to sponsor an issue? See our [media kit.](https://cooperpress.com/mediakit) Want to post a job? 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