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title: "This Week's Node and io.js News - Issue 83"
publication: "Node Weekly"
issue: 83
published_at: "2015-04-23"
canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/83"
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This Week's Node and io.js News - Issue 83

This week's Node and io.js news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/83)

Node WeeklyApril 23, 2015 #83 The Npm Blog 

[Solving npm’s Hard Problem: Naming Packages](http://blog.npmjs.org/post/116936804365/solving-npms-hard-problem-naming-packages)With over 100,000 npm modules, picking a name that doesn’t clash is tricky, but npm’s new ‘scopes’ feature can help.
 Rob Conery 

[Massive 2.0: Postgres-based Data Access Tool for Node](https://github.com/robconery/massive-js)Loads all of your tables, Postgres functions, and local query files up as functions; supports full text search; has full JSONB document support; has a REPL; and more.
 Craig Jefferds 

[Nexe: Create A Single Executable Out of Your Node App](https://github.com/crcn/nexe)Doesn’t support native modules or dynamic requires.
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[Get Notified When Your Get Linked on Hacker News](https://www.twilio.com/blog/2015/04/get-notified-when-someone-posts-an-article-from-your-domain-on-hacker-news-using-node-js-firebase-and-twilio.html)A complete tutorial tying together the Hacker News API, Node, Firebase and Twilio.
 José Padilla 

[Juice Box: A VM for Node/io and Python Development Ready to Go](http://jpadilla.com/post/117089859507/juice-box)Aimed at people running programming workshops as it includes a full desktop Linux environment, Sublime Text, Chrome, and more.
 Aleksander Kasiuk 

[On Problems with Threads in Node.js](http://www.future-processing.pl/blog/on-problems-with-threads-in-node-js/)A look at some issues one developer encountered with threads ‘meddling’ with his Node apps.
 Patrick Liess 

[RSMQ: A Lightweight Redis Message Queue for Node](http://smrchy.github.io/rsmq/)“If you run a Redis server and currently use Amazon SQS or a similar message queue you might as well use this fast little replacement.”


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In Brief

- [Atom Shell (the Cross Platform Desktop App Shell) is now Electron](http://blog.atom.io/2015/04/23/electron.html) news GitHub
- [What Is Node.js Used For: The 2015 Node.js Overview Report](http://blog.risingstack.com/what-is-nodejs-used-for-the-2015-nodejs-overview-report/) news 
Insights from a survey taken by 285 developers (who mostly seem to be Java developers too). RisingStack
- [Using npm Private Modules with Heroku](http://blog.getpiggybank.com/npm-private-modules-with-heroku/) tutorial Piggybank Blog
- [Shared Memory with Node.js](http://blog.varunajayasiri.com/shared-memory-with-nodejs) tutorial 
Writing a simple Node add-on to share memory amongst Node processes. Varuna Jayasiri
- [Node.js Server-Side JavaScript Injection Detection & Exploitation](https://medium.com/@indepthtechio/node-js-server-side-javascript-injection-detection-exploitation-5ec2491f9535) tutorial In-Depth Tech
- [Building Better Node Apps with RethinkDB](https://nodecraft.com/blog/dev/building-better-node-js-apps-with-rethinkdb) tutorial NodeCraft
- [Building Your First Application with MongoDB: Creating A REST API using The MEAN Stack](https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/building-your-first-application-mongodb-creating-rest-api-using-mean-stack-part-1) tutorial MongoDB
- [When do errors happen? [Data study\]](https://opbeat.com/blog/posts/error-data-study/?utm_source=nodeweekly=ad=nodeweeklydatastudy) 
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- [The Kraken Effect at PayPal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2wkNMr9idE) video 
In a keynote for this week’s Fluent conference, Bill Scott explained the background to how PayPal now has 67 Node applications in production and the benefits Node has provided. YouTube
- [Chnode: Change Between Installed Node Versions in Your Shell](https://github.com/moll/sh-chnode) tools Andri Möll
- [Stop Worrying About Deploying Your Node.js App](http://hubs.ly/y0zSNx0) tools 
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- [Node Needs an Abstraction Layer for JavaScript Engines](http://jxcore.com/node-needs-an-abstraction-layer-for-javascript-engines/) opinion JXcore
- [Node's Require Statement Is Slow. Why?](https://kev.inburke.com/kevin/node-require-is-dog-slow/) opinion Kevin Burke
- [fetchival: Makes Writing JSON Requests with Fetch Easier](https://github.com/typicode/fetchival) code Typicode
- [ioredis: A Performance-focused Redis Client for Node](https://github.com/luin/ioredis) code Zihua Li
- [clif: Cross-Platform CLI GIF Maker of your Command Line Session](https://github.com/rauchg/clif) code Guillermo Rauch
- [SpeakingURL: Pretty URL/Slug Generator](http://pid.github.io/speakingurl/) code Sascha Droste
- [Buckets: Open Source CMS built on Node.js and MongoDB](https://github.com/asm-products/buckets) code Assembly

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