--- title: "This Week's Node and io.js News - Issue 76" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 76 published_at: "2015-03-05" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/76" --- This Week's Node and io.js News - Issue 76 This week's Node and io.js news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/76) Node WeeklyMarch 5, 2015 #76 Jack Franklin [Writing Command Line Tools with Node](http://javascriptplayground.com/blog/2015/03/node-command-line-tool/)A quick look at building a simple command line tool with Node using modern practices. hueniverse [The Node Version Dilemma](http://hueniverse.com/2015/03/02/the-node-version-dilemma/)We have Node 0.12, 0.10, io.js, JXcore.. what should we use? 0.10 is the safe bet for now says Eran Hammer and, controversially, ‘0.12 is DOA’. 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Ben Nadel [Shedding The Monolithic Application with AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS) and Node.js](http://www.bennadel.com/blog/2792-shedding-the-monolithic-application-with-aws-simple-queue-service-sqs-and-node-js.htm)An article coupled with an 8 minute video showing how to use a message queue to break apps into asynchronous components. npm [The npm Roadmap](https://github.com/npm/npm/wiki/Roadmap)A look at what’s coming up for the package manager we’re all using. io.js [io.js 1.4.3 Released](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/blob/v1.x/CHANGELOG.md#2015-03-02-version-143-rvagg)The io.js releases keep coming, this time adding the beginnings of ARMv8 / ARM64 support. 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Hired.com In Brief - [ARM Offers Support for io.js On ARMv8](https://github.com/iojs/evangelism/blob/master/weekly-updates/weekly-update.2015-02-27.md#user-content-arm-offers-support-for-iojs-on-armv8) news io.js - [How To Create an Node.js App Using Sails.js on an Ubuntu VPS](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-an-node-js-app-using-sails-js-on-an-ubuntu-vps) tutorial DigitalOcean - [Reloading Node with No Downtime](http://joseoncode.com/2015/01/18/reloading-node-with-no-downtime/) tutorial José F. Romaniello - [Building a Node-Webkit, WebRTC and Angular-based Video Chat Client](http://thejackalofjavascript.com/node-webkit-webrtc-and-angularjs-a-video-chat-client/) tutorial Arvind Ravulavaru - [Making a Tessel-Powered Plant Watering System with JavaScript](http://maxogden.com/tessel-powered-plant-watering-system.html) tutorial Max Ogden - [Stop Worrying About Deploying Your Node.js App](http://hubs.ly/y0zSNx0) tools Modulus is the easiest Node.js platform to get your application to market in minutes. Start for free. ModulusSponsor - [How to Use NVM to Install Multiple Node Versions](http://nodetuts.com/series/tools-tips-tricks/tools-tips-tricks-01.html) video Pedro Teixeira - [Building Realtime Applications Just Got Easy: A Screencast](http://knowthen.com/episode-10-building-realtime-applications-just-got-easy/) video 25 minutes long and leaning on RethinkDB, Node/io.js, Koajs, Socket.io, and Angular. James Moore - [Node.js in the Enterprise: Building Infrastructure](http://blog.upwardsmotion.com/nodejs-in-the-enterprise-world-the-building-infrastructure/) opinion Imre Fazekas - [exceljs: Read, Manipulate and Write Spreadsheet Data and Styles to XLSX and JSON](https://github.com/guyonroche/exceljs) code guyonroche - [Wallaby.js: An Intelligent Test Runner for node.js and io.js](http://wallabyjs.com/) code Wallaby.js runs tests as you type and displays results (including code coverage) right in your code editor. WallabySponsor - [Chalk 1.0.0: A Module for Colorizing Terminal Output](https://github.com/sindresorhus/chalk/releases/tag/v1.0.0) code Used by around 3000 npm packages to do text styling on the terminal. Sindre Sorhus - [A Node.js IoT Host on Heroku: The Simplest Thing that Might Possibly Work](http://reidcarlberg.com/2015/03/04/node-js-iot-host-on-heroku-the-simplest-thing-that-might-possibly-work/) code Reid Carlberg - [fuzzysearch: Fuzzy Search in JavaScript](https://github.com/bevacqua/fuzzysearch) code Allows for flexibly matching a string with partial input. Nicolas Bevacqua - [Parse5: WHATWG HTML5-Compliant HTML Parsing/Serialization Toolset for Node](http://inikulin.github.io/parse5/) code Ivan Nikulin - [Node Rules: A Business Rules Engine](https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-rules) code Mithun Satheesh - [SqlPad: A Web App for Running SQL Queries and Visualizing The Results](http://rickbergfalk.github.io/sqlpad/) code Written in Node. Rick Bergfalk - [LokiJS: A Fast, Lightweight JavaScript In-Memory Database](http://lokijs.org/) code Techfort Node Weekly is curated by [Peter Cooper](https://twitter.com/peterc) and published by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/). 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