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title: "This Week's Node and io.js News - Issue 78"
publication: "Node Weekly"
issue: 78
published_at: "2015-03-19"
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This Week's Node and io.js News - Issue 78

This week's Node and io.js news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/78)

Node WeeklyMarch 19, 2015 #78 Node.js Blog 

[Node v0.10.37 (Maintenance) Released](http://blog.nodejs.org/2015/03/14/node-v0-10-37-stable/)With all the talk of 0.12 and io.js, 0.10 is widely deployed and has had an update for a [vulnerability.](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1194651)
 Egghead 

[Using 'npm link' to Use Node Modules That Are Not Yet Published [video\]](https://egghead.io/lessons/node-js-using-npm-link-to-use-node-modules-that-are-in-progress)It’s sometimes necessary to use a module you’re still working on before it has been published to npm. The npm link command makes it possible.
 Modern Web 

[Develop an iOS Application with Node.js and Cordova](http://modernweb.com/2015/03/19/develop-an-ios-application-with-node-js-and-cordova/)A tutorial looking at how to use JXCore (an alternative Node implementation) to build a very simple iOS app along with Cordova (and, optionally, Xcode).
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[is.js: A Micro 'Checking' Library](http://arasatasaygin.github.io/is.js/)A well presented library of helper functions that ‘check’ data or types.. is something a number? Is a date on the weekend? Is something an array? There’s a lot here and it’s very well documented too.
 npm 

[A Discussion about npm 'Collections'](https://github.com/npm/newww/issues/313)‘Collections’ are a way of bringing together multiple npm packages in useful ways.
 CJ Silverio 

[Node.js at Scale [video\]](http://nodesummit.com/media/node-js-at-scale/)A talk from NodeSummit from the head of DevOps at npm, Inc. about how the npm registry has grown and scaled using Node noe that it serves billions of requests each year.


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In Brief

- [npm Private Modules Are Coming Soon](http://blog.npmjs.org/post/113172137370/npm-private-modules-are-coming-soon) news The npm Blog
- [Meteor 1.0.4 Released: Supports MongoDB 2.6 and 3.0](https://www.meteor.com/blog/2015/03/17/meteor-104-mongo-cordova-template-subscriptions) news 
Numerous updates and tweaks. Meteor
- [JXCore Brings Node.JS to Android and iOS](http://oguzbastemur.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/nodejs-truly-on-android-and-ios.html) news Oguz Bastemur
- [Best Practices and Components with React: A Free Online Event Next Week](http://www.oreilly.com/pub/e/3378) news 
Includes Brian Holt with ‘First Steps Toward React Best Practices’ and Ben Anderson with ‘Reactive, Component-based UIs with React’. It's on Thursday, March 26. O'Reilly Media
- [Progress on a Workers Implementation for io.js](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1159) news io.js
- [io.js has an FAQ](https://iojs.org/en/faq.html) news io.js
- [Using the ES6 Transpiler 'Babel' on Node.js](http://www.2ality.com/2015/03/babel-on-node.html) tutorial Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
- [Social Authentication for Node.js Apps With Passport](http://code.tutsplus.com/articles/social-authentication-for-nodejs-apps-with-passport--cms-21618) tutorial Tuts+
- [6 Node.js Static Site Generators](http://www.sitepoint.com/6-nodejs-static-site-generators/) tools SitePoint
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- [Huntsman: Super Configurable Async Web Spider](https://github.com/missinglink/huntsman) code 
A library that makes it easy to crawl Web pages and programatically follow the links of your choice, etc. Peter Johnson
- [trim-html: Cut HTML Strings without Breaking the HTML](https://github.com/brankosekulic/trimHtml) code Branko Sekulic
- [haikunatorjs: Generate Heroku-like Random Names](https://github.com/AtroxDev/haikunatorjs) code 
Things like patient-king-887265 and ‘delicate haze’. Atrox
- [NodeGit: Asynchronous Native Node Bindings to libgit2](http://www.nodegit.org/) code NodeGit

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