--- title: "This Week's Node.js News - Issue 90" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 90 published_at: "2015-06-11" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/90" --- This Week's Node.js News - Issue 90 This week's Node and io.js news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/90) Node WeeklyJune 11, 2015 #90 StrongLoop [New io.js Features You May Not Be Using](https://strongloop.com/strongblog/new-io-js-features-you-may-not-be-using/)Includes ES6 features, simpler stream construction, Buffer#indexOf, module preloading, and more. A grab bag of new ideas and features. Jovan Jovanovic [A Walkthrough of LoopBack, a Powerful Node API Framework](http://www.toptal.com/nodejs/let-loopback-do-it-a-walkthrough-of-the-node-api-framework-you-ve-been-dreaming-of)A thorough walkthrough and tutorial for LoopBack, an open source API framework built by StrongLoop. It’s built on top of Express and can build a fully functional end-to-end REST API from a data model definition. Kev Zettler [Rapid Local Development with Vagrant, Docker and Node.js](http://kevzettler.com/programming/2015/06/07/rapid_local_development_vagrant_docker_node.html)Using a cascade of Vagrant shared directories, Docker volumes and cleverly placed symlinks, you can rig Vagrant and Docker to instantly reflect your local application code updates. 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) David Cahill [How I Survived My Baptism of Fire with Node.js](http://www.nearform.com/nodecrunch/surviving-my-first-project-using-node-js/)A developer shares his experiences of being thrown into a fast-paced Node, Seneca and Angular-based project for a client. Gregory Fabry [Checkerboard: Shared Transactional Memory with Zero Server Configuration](https://github.com/gregoryfabry/checkerboard)Lets you create shared state among clients without server-side logic. It has two components: a Node back-end and a browser client library. TalentBuddy [Building With Node.js at The New York Times](https://www.talentbuddy.co/blog/building-with-node-js-at-the-new-york-times/)A (text) interview with Felipe Silva, development manager of the NYT’s video team. Modulus [Meet Industry Expert Mikeal Rogers](http://blog.modulus.io/meet-mikeal-rogers)An interesting interview about one of the Node communities best known members and the organizer of NodeConf and JSFest. Jobs - [Expert Node.js Instructors at Pluralsight (Freelance-Part-time)](http://www.pluralsight.com/teach) Actively seeking Node.js developers to join our tight knit family of passionate teachers and earn royalties. Pluralsight - [Want to work on new projects? Make more money? Try a new stack? Relocate?](https://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters=nodeweekly=n-q2_15-petercooperpress=options) On Hired, we'll bring the options to you. With over 2,000 pre-screened tech companies in 10 cities in the US UK, you'll be sure to find what you're looking for. Join Hired today. Hired.com In Brief - [Online Workshop: Building Modern, Single-Page Web Applications](https://frontendmasters.com/workshops/web-apps/) course Build a clean, well-structured web app from scratch by combining best-of breed approaches and a carefully curated set of tools including: Ampersand, React, WebPack, ES6 and Node.js. Frontend MastersSponsor - [New Pluralsight Course: io.js ... (or is it?)](http://www.marcusoft.net/2015/06/new-pluralsight-course-iojs-or-is-it.html) news course Marcus Hammarberg - [Up and Running with io.js and Docker](http://blog.codefresh.io/up-and-running-with-io-js-and-docker/) tutorial Tony Pujals - [Secure Node Apps Against OWASP Top 10 - Injection](http://scottksmith.com/blog/2015/06/08/secure-node-apps-against-owasp-top-10-injection/) tutorial A series looking at ways Express-based Node apps can protect themselves against various threats. This time, injection attacks. Scott K Smith - [Hapi on Steroids: Using Generator Functions with Hapi](http://blog.risingstack.com/hapi-on-steroids-using-generator-functions-with-hapi/) tutorial RisingStack - [Hasha: An Easy Way to Generate Hashes in Node](https://github.com/sindresorhus/hasha) code Get the hash of a buffer/string/stream/file with this convenience wrapper around the core crypto module. Sindre Sorhus - [Sundry: A Reconfigurable, Round-Robin Reverse Proxy](https://github.com/PaperElectron/Sundry) code A caching, dynamically configurable, reverse proxy, written in NodeJS and backed by Redis. PaperElectron - [express-walker: A Router Loader for Express Apps](https://github.com/hlfshell/express-walker) code hlfshell - [HackerNews-API: Node Wrapper for The Official Hacker News API](https://github.com/wcember/HackerNews-API) code wcember - [Using NPM Packages the Async Way](https://paulb.gd/using-npm-packages-the-async-way/) code tutorial requireAsync lets you run external code asynchronously in a separate process. Paul Sauve - [pm2-webshell: Expose A Fully Capable Terminal Within Your Browser](https://keymetrics.io/2015/06/10/pm2-ssh-expose-a-fully-capable-terminal-within-your-browser/) tools code Keymetrics - [SlackBots.js: A Node Library for Running a Slack Chatbot](https://github.com/mishk0/slack-bot-api) code Mikhail Mokrushin - [node-osx-scanner: Scanning An Image in OS X from Node](https://github.com/Urucas/node-osx-scanner) code Just calls out to osx-scanner, a small executable. Urucas - [Inkjet: JPEG Decoding, Encoding and EXIF Reading Library for the Browser and Node](https://github.com/gchudnov/inkjet) code Grigoriy Chudnov 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/90) © Cooperpress Ltd. Office 30, Lincoln Way, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK [Email policy](https://cooperpress.com/spam.html) [Privacy policy](https://cooperpress.com/privacy.html)