--- title: "This Week's Node.js News - Issue 89" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 89 published_at: "2015-06-04" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/89" --- This Week's Node.js News - Issue 89 This week's Node and io.js news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/89) Node WeeklyJune 4, 2015 #89 Channel 9 [A Tour of Node.js Tools for Visual Studio](http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Seth-Juarez/Nodejs-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.)_ Reddit [What Is The Best Way to Deploy Node.js?](http://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/38bnzi/what_is_the_best_way_to_deploy_nodejs/)A discussion on Reddit about the different ways people deploy Node applications online. Patrick Catanzariti [Remote Control Your Mac With Node.js and Arduino](http://www.sitepoint.com/remote-control-mac-node-js-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. SemaphoreSponsor [Semaphore CI is free for open source & private projects](https://semaphoreapp.com/)Test and deploy your projects directly from GitHub or Bitbucket with zero setup, fast execution, and expert support. Join CoreOS, 500px and many more organizations who've improved their productivity with Semaphore. [![Semaphore\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/d9f7c49e.png)](https://semaphoreapp.com/) NodeSource [Was This Trip Really Necessary?](https://nodesource.com/blog/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. Passport [Passport: Simple, Unobtrusive Authentication for Node.js](http://www.passportjs.org/)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. Jobs - [Node Engineer at Welltok (Denver, CO Seattle, WA)](mailto:derek.worley@welltok.com) We’re a fanatical team of healthcare enthusiasts who are building a health optimization platform to transform the nation’s healthcare system. We are currently seeking high caliber Node and Ruby Engineers to take us to the next level. Come help us make a difference. Apply through [our site](http://www.welltok.com) and email your resume to [derek.worley@welltok.com](mailto:derek.worley@welltok.com). Welltok - [Freelance with Companies like Airbnb, IDEO JPMorgan](http://www.toptal.com/developers?utm_source=node_weekly&utm_medium=cpm-newsletter&utm_campaign=node_weekly_job) Work on special projects with great companies through Toptal. Set your weekly/hourly rate, and work from anywhere in the world as an elite HTML5 developer. See if you have what it takes. TopTal In Brief - [io.js 2.2.1 Released](https://iojs.org/en/index.html?2.2.1) news iojs.org - [An Introduction to Docker for the Node.js Developer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Y9pts7IHI) video Luke Bond - [Displaying Web APIs on an Arduino LCD Using Node.js](http://www.sitepoint.com/web-apis-on-arduino-lcd/) tutorial SitePoint - [Verify Snail Mail Addresses via Postcard With Lob, Mandrill, and Hapi](http://stackshare.io/lob/verify-user-addresses-via-postcard-with-lob---mandrill---hapi) tutorial StackShare - [A SQL Developer's Guide To NewSQL](http://benlue.gitbooks.io/newsqlguide/content/) 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](http://blog.muhammadmustadi.com/2015/05/27/camera-motion-detection-and-real-time-notification-through-websocket-devlog-20150528/) tutorial Muhammad Mustadi - [Opbeat = Ops for developers](https://opbeat.com/blog/posts/auto-assignments//?utm_source=nodeweekly=ad==autoassign) tools New feature: Auto-assignments. When an error occurs, Opbeat deduces who the best equipped person to fix the code is, via Git. Receive fewer but smarter notifications spend more time being productive. OpbeatSponsor - [Brunch: A Fast Build Tool](http://brunch.io/) 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](https://github.com/leeluolee/fstorm) 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)](http://fahad19.github.io/firenze/) code Written in ES6 and uses a Promise based workflow. Fahad Ibnay Heylaal - [tmpl-cli: Simple, Pipeable Template Rendering on the Command Line](https://github.com/raine/tmpl-cli) code Raine Virta - [Parsec: ES6 Generator-Based CLI Options Parser](https://github.com/bucaran/parsec) code Jorge Bucaran - [WebTorrent: A Streaming BitTorrent Client for Node and the Browser](https://github.com/feross/webtorrent) 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](https://github.com/dareid/chakram) code Daniel Reid - [Codeship - The fastest Continuous Delivery Platform](http://codeship.com/?utm_campaign=customers&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nodeweekly) tools Codeship is a fast and secure hosted Continuous Integration and Delivery platform. 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