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title: "This Week's Node and io.js News - Issue 80"
publication: "Node Weekly"
issue: 80
published_at: "2015-04-02"
canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/80"
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This Week's Node and io.js News - Issue 80

This week's Node and io.js news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/80)

Node WeeklyApril 2, 2015 #80 Mikeal Rogers 

[Help Us Reconcile Node.js and io.js](https://medium.com/node-js-javascript/help-us-reconcile-node-js-and-io-js-c060a9ec1bd4)An update on the progress being made by the Linux Foundation, node.js, and io.js on a common open governance structure, and an invitation for you to comment on the plans.
 David Mark Clements 

[How to Develop Your Node.js Debugging Techniques](http://www.nearform.com/nodecrunch/node-js-develop-debugging-techniques/)Covers interactive debugging, debug logs, and reading stack traces.
 The npm Blog 

[Introducing the npm Semantic Version Calculator](http://blog.npmjs.org/post/115305091285/introducing-the-npm-semantic-version-calculator)Sometimes you want to target a range of npm module versions that’s more complex than, say, ‘2.1.x’. To help work out what ranges will match what, the npm crew have built a handy tool.
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[Build A Node.js-Powered Chatroom Web App: Getting Started](http://www.sitepoint.com/build-node-js-powered-chatroom-web-app-getting-started/)First in a six part series of building a Node.js app using Azure, Mongo, Socket.io, Bootstrap, and more.
 Ancestry.com 

[Scaling Node.js in the Enterprise](http://blogs.ancestry.com/techroots/scaling-node-js-in-the-enterprise/)Robert Schultz talks about Ancestry’s efforts at trying to scale Node use (from a managerial/organizational point of view) within its apps teams and the challenges they faced.
 Node.js Blog 

[Node v0.12.2 (Stable) Released](http://blog.nodejs.org/2015/03/31/node-v0-12-2-stable/)libuv upgraded to 1.4.2, npm upgraded to 2.7.4, and a wide array of bug fixes.


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In Brief

- [Meteor 1.1 Released: Now Supports Windows and MongoDB 3.0](https://www.meteor.com/blog/2015/03/31/meteor-11-microsoft-windows-mongodb-30) news Meteor
- [How Do You Choose npm Packages?](http://blog.npmjs.org/post/115128654255/how-do-you-choose-packages) news 
The npm team want to know how you find packages you want to use. Node Weekly, sometimes? Ha! :-) The npm Blog
- [The Node.js Advisory Board](http://nodeadvisoryboard.com/) news Node Advisory Board
- [Getting Started with Wintersmith: A Node.js-based Static Site Generator](http://www.sitepoint.com/getting-started-wintersmith-nodejs-static-site-generator/) tutorial Brian Rinaldi
- [How to Use the npm Module Ecosystem](http://www.nearform.com/nodecrunch/coding-with-nodejs/) tutorial 
What modules should you use and why? David Mark Clements
- [A Sample Docker Workflow with Nginx, Node.js and Redis](http://anandmanisankar.com/posts/docker-container-nginx-node-redis-example/) tutorial Anand Mani Sankar
- [Node.js Clustering Made Easy with PM2](https://keymetrics.io/2015/03/26/pm2-clustering-made-easy/) tutorial Joni Shkurti
- [Continuous Integration for Node.js Projects with TeamCity](http://ariya.ofilabs.com/2015/03/continuous-integration-for-node-js-projects-with-teamcity.html) tutorial tools Ariya Hidayat
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- [StealJS: A Dependency Loader and Build Tool for Large Apps](http://blog.bitovi.com/introducing-stealjs/) tools 
Works with ES6, CommonJS, AMD, CSS, LESS and more. Focuses on build optimization, progressive loading, and multi-app building. Bitovi
- [Stop Worrying About Deploying Your Node.js App](http://hubs.ly/y0zSNx0) tools 
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- [Hyperlink: Detect Invalid and Inefficient Links on Web Pages](https://github.com/Munter/hyperlink) code tools Peter Müller
- [Gotchas From Two Years With Node](https://segment.com/blog/gotchas-from-two-years-of-node/) opinion Calvin French-Owen
- [Microservices, Node.js, Containers!](https://www.airpair.com/node.js/posts/microservices-nodejs-containers) opinion Robert Schultz
- [How I Build Node.js Applications](http://blog.ragingflame.co.za/2015/4/1/how-i-build-nodejs-applications) opinion Qawelesizwe Mlilo
- [FastImage: Finds The Size and Type of An Image from a URL](https://github.com/ShogunPanda/fastimage) code 
Cleverly downloads as little of an image as needed to work out its dimensions and file type. Supports BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, PSD, TIFF, WebP and SVG. Shogun
- [riak-nodejs-client: The Official NodeJS Riak Client](https://github.com/basho/riak-nodejs-client) code 
Riak is a distributed NoSQL key-value data store. Basho Technologies
- [Mockingjay: To Build Twitter Bots That Follow and Retweet Selectively](https://github.com/csvsoundsystem/mockingjay) code 
Currently powers [@YourRepsOnGuns](https://twitter.com/yourrepsonguns), a Twitter account retweeting members of Congress when they mention gun related issues. CSV Sound System
- [Osmosis: HTML/XML Parser and Web Scraper for Node](https://github.com/rc0x03/node-osmosis) code rc0x03
- [get-next: Simple HTTP GET Wrapper with Chainable Calls](https://github.com/bucaran/get-next) code 
For both Node and the browser. Jorge Bucaran
- [Unexpected: An Extensible BDD Assertion Toolkit](http://unexpectedjs.github.io/) code Sune Simonsen

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