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title: "This Week's Node and io.js News - Issue 81"
publication: "Node Weekly"
issue: 81
published_at: "2015-04-09"
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This Week's Node and io.js News - Issue 81

This week's Node and io.js news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/81)

Node WeeklyApril 9, 2015 #81 Cylon 

[Cylon.js (JS Robotics Framework) 1.0 Released](http://cylonjs.com/blog/2015/04/08/cylon-1.0.0/)Cylon is a popular JavaScript robotics framework that lets you control devices on (currently) 35 different platforms. With the 1.0 release, the creators are now defining the API as stable.
 Heitor Tashiro Sergent 

[Getting Started with Docker for the Node.js Developer](https://www.airpair.com/node.js/posts/getting-started-with-docker-for-the-nodejs-dev)An explanation of what Docker is and why it might be useful to you, followed by a complete walkthrough of setting it up and running a Node app on a Docker container you’ll create.
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[Simple Web Scraping With Node.js](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/04/08/web-scraping-with-nodejs/)Elliot Bonneville presents a brief tutorial on using Node to build simple Web scrapers: first taking weather data from Weather Underground, then info from a Google search.
 io.js Repository 

[io.js Community Thoughts on Reconciliation (with Node)](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/1336)The thread is now locked, but 4 days of intense discussion took place.
 Sandstorm News 

[Remotely Send Node.js Into Infinite Loops via a Weird OS X Kernel Bug](https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2015-04-08-osx-security-bug.html)Not a full-on Heartbleed-style vulnerability but certainly a DoS opportunity, though the problem is in OS X rather than Node itself and other software is affected too.


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In Brief

- [io.js 1.6.4 Released](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/blob/v1.x/CHANGELOG.md?#2015-04-06-version-164-fishrock123) news 
Things continue to march on. The usual upgrades, tweaks, npm update, etc. io.js Repository
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- ['The Node Craftsman Book' Released by Manuel Kiessling](https://leanpub.com/nodecraftsman/) news Leanpub
- [Using Transpiled ES6 on Node.js](http://www.2ality.com/2015/04/node-es6-transpiled.html) tutorial Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
- [Simply Get Bitcoin's Value with curl or Node.js](http://davidwalsh.name/bitcoin) tutorial David Walsh
- [npm Packages Sorted by PageRank](http://anvaka.github.io/npmrank/online/) tools Andrei Kashcha
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- [New StrongLoop Process Manager Features for Running Node.js in Production Including Docker Support](https://strongloop.com/strongblog/node-js-process-manager-production-docker/) tools 
StrongLoop Process Manager is an enterprise-grade production runtime process manager to assist in both vertical and horizontal scaling of Node apps. StrongLoop
- [Alpine Node: Minimal Node.js Docker Images](https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/mhart/alpine-node/) tools Michael Hart
- [Oh My Terminal: A Simple Wrapper for Shell 'exec' and 'spawn'-ing](https://github.com/Kikobeats/oh-my-terminal) code Kiko Beats
- [google-play-scraper: Scrapes Basic App Data from Google Play Store](https://www.npmjs.com/package/google-play-scraper) code facundoolano
- [reql-cli: A ReQL (RethinkDB's Query Language) CLI written in ES6](https://github.com/Workshape/reql-cli) code Workshape.io
- [tolerant-url-parser: URL Parser That Tolerates Technically Invalid Inputs](https://github.com/FGRibreau/node-tolerant-url-parser) code Francois-Guillaume Ribreau
- [mssql-ng: MS-SQL Interface for Next-Generation JavaScript](https://www.npmjs.com/package/mssql-ng) code 
Provides an interface to use ES6 template strings to construct SQL requests. Michael J. Ryan
- [oxr: A Node.js Wrapper for the Open Exchange Rates API](https://github.com/continuous-software/oxr) code Continuous Software
- [eureca.io: A Bidirectional RPC with Multiple Transport Layer Support](http://eureca.io/) code Alaa-eddine K
- [Buckets: Open Source CMS built on Node.js and MongoDB](http://buckets.io/) code Assembly
- [stream-valve: Ensure A Stream Disconnects If It Goes Over 'x' Bytes/second](https://github.com/FGRibreau/stream-valve) code Francois-Guillaume Ribreau

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