--- title: "This Week's Node and io.js News - Issue 85" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 85 published_at: "2015-05-07" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/85" --- This Week's Node and io.js News - Issue 85 This week's Node and io.js news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/85) Node WeeklyMay 7, 2015 #85 Bryan English [Registry in a Box: Get an npm Registry Mirror on a Local Network](https://www.npmjs.com/package/reginabox)‘reginabox’ provides an easy way to create an npm registry mirror on a local network and to also discover such mirrors on the current network. Could be ideal for conferences or other connectivity-troubled locations. Rod Vagg [The Future of Node [video\]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZJCnT7E1ts)Rod Vagg reflects on Node’s bright future, even in the face of the current uncertainty posed by forks and committees, etc. iojs.org [io.js 2.0 Released](https://iojs.org/en/index.html?2.0.0)The pace of progress with the io.js Node fork continues unabated. io.js 2.0 introduces V8 4.2, npm 2.9.0, and a variety of minor tweaks and improvements. ModulusSponsor [Simple Node.js Application Hosting - Try Today for Free](http://hubs.ly/y0MJgR0)Modulus is the easiest place to deploy your Node.js and MongoDB applications. The platform is built for developers, by developers. You can now run PHP and Java along side your Node.js too. Sign up and [get started for free](http://hubs.ly/y0MJgR0). [![Modulus\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/00914ad3.jpg)](http://hubs.ly/y0MJgR0) Daniel Li [Setting Up Express with NGINX and pm2](http://blog.danyll.com/setting-up-express-with-nginx-and-pm2/)A look at creating a simple webapp with Express, serving it up using NGINX, and keeping it all alive with pm2. Rowan Manning [Pacer: A Fault-Tolerant, Redis-based Rate Limiter](https://github.com/rowanmanning/pacer)A flexible rate limiter you could use in many situations (not just webapps). Create a ‘pacer’ instance, create a token for the consumer, and then ‘consume’ until you hit the defined quota. James M Snell [A Draft of a Potential 'Node Foundation' Development Policy](https://github.com/jasnell/dev-policy)Work continues on looking at ways for io.js and Node to collaborate, potentially under a new Node Foundation Technical Steering Committee. 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JXcore - [Useful Resources for Building Apps with Electron (formerly atom-shell)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome-electron) Sindre Sorhus - [Microservices with Seneca and MQ Light](https://developer.ibm.com/messaging/2015/05/06/microservices-with-seneca-and-mq-light/) tutorial Seneca is a microservices framework for building scalable apps with Node. IBM Messaging - [JSON Micro-Service Configuration with PM2](https://keymetrics.io/2015/05/06/microservices-architecture-applications-via-pm2/) tutorial PM2 is a production process manager, and it can be used to help deploy microservice-oriented apps. Joni Shkurti - [Node.js in Real-Time Applications](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G5nDux4tvw) video Elvis Adomnica - [Scala vs. Node.js as a RESTful Backend Server](http://developerblog.redhat.com/2015/04/22/scala-vs-node-js-as-a-restful-backend-server/) opinion Red Hat Developer Blog - [ModClean: Remove Unwanted Files From Your node_modules Folder](https://github.com/KyleRoss/modclean) tools Kyle Ross - [Opbeat = Ops for developers](https://opbeat.com/?utm_source=nodeweekly&utm_medium=ad&utm_campaign=nodeweekly100&campaign=nodeweekly) tools We'll show you the code that is breaking, who wrote it, and how it is affecting performance. [Node Weekly readers get $100 credit.](https://opbeat.com/?utm_source=nodeweekly=ad=nodeweekly100=nodeweekly) OpbeatSponsor - [node-jet: A Realtime Message Bus for the Web](https://github.com/lipp/node-jet) tools code Jet is a in-memory database meets realtime push framework. Gerhard Preuss - [throw.js: HTTP Error Collection to Use in Your Next REST API](https://github.com/kbariotis/throw.js) code Kostas Bariotis - [png-coder: A PNG Encoder/Decoder with 16-bit Support](https://www.npmjs.com/package/png-coder) code No native dependencies either. sisilmet2000 - [Hello, Node Bebop Drone](http://cylonjs.com/blog/2015/05/06/hello-node-bebop-drone/) code node-bebop is a Node module to control the Parrot Bebop quadcopter. CylonJS Node Weekly is curated by [Peter Cooper](https://twitter.com/peterc) and published by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/). Want to sponsor an issue? See our [media kit.](https://cooperpress.com/mediakit) Want to post a job? E-mail us or [use our self-serve system.](https://booking.cooperpress.com/jobs) [Unsubscribe](*|UNSUB|*) : [Change email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*) : [Read this issue on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/85) © Cooperpress Ltd. 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