Node Weekly Issue 89: June 4, 2015

Node Weekly

June 4, 2015 #89

Channel 9

A Tour of Node.js Tools for Visual Studio

Seth Juarez talks to Sara Itani about Visual Studio’s recently improved Node.js support before diving into the process of creating a deploying an Express app using VS. (40 minute video.)

What Is The Best Way to Deploy Node.js?

A discussion on Reddit about the different ways people deploy Node applications online.

Patrick Catanzariti

Remote Control Your Mac With Node.js and Arduino

A step by step tutorial on bringing together Node, Johnny Five, and an Arduino to create a ‘remote control’ for a Mac that can control sound volume and play music.

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Was This Trip Really Necessary?

Rod Vagg reflects on Node’s journey over the past year including the io.js fork and whether it was generally a good thing.

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Passport: Simple, Unobtrusive Authentication for Node.js

Passport is tried-and-tested authentication middleware for Express-based apps. It’s not new but if you haven’t used it yet, it should be on your radar.

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In Brief

io.js 2.2.1 Released news
iojs.org
An Introduction to Docker for the Node.js Developer video
Luke Bond
Displaying Web APIs on an Arduino LCD Using Node.js tutorial
SitePoint
Verify Snail Mail Addresses via Postcard With Lob, Mandrill, and Hapi tutorial
StackShare
A SQL Developer's Guide To NewSQL tutorial
NewSQL is a module that tries to provide the best of SQL and NoSQL on top of MySQL in Node.
Ben Lue
Camera Motion Detection and Real-time Notification to Android through Socket.io tutorial
Muhammad Mustadi
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Brunch: A Fast Build Tool tools
Compiles scripts, templates and styles, lints them, wraps them as modules, generates source maps more.
brunch.io
fstorm: A Node Module for Superfast File Writing code
The documentation is a little idiosyncratic but the benchmarks and sample code speak for themselves.
Zheng Haibo
firenze.js: A Node.js ORM for MySQL (initially) code
Written in ES6 and uses a Promise based workflow.
Fahad Ibnay Heylaal
tmpl-cli: Simple, Pipeable Template Rendering on the Command Line code
Raine Virta
Parsec: ES6 Generator-Based CLI Options Parser code
Jorge Bucaran
WebTorrent: A Streaming BitTorrent Client for Node and the Browser code
In Node it’s a typical torrent client using TCP and UDP. In the browser it uses WebRTC.
Feross Aboukhadijeh
Chakram: API Testing Framework for End to End Tests On JSON REST Endpoints code
Daniel Reid
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