--- title: "This Week's Node.js News - Issue 95" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 95 published_at: "2015-07-16" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/95" --- This Week's Node.js News - Issue 95 This week's Node and io.js news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/95) Node WeeklyJuly 16, 2015 #95 Loggly [Node Logging Basics: A Guide to Logging](http://www.loggly.com/ultimate-guide/logging/node-logging-basics/)Node provides an easily extensible logging system and there are also a large number of third party libraries. This guide looks at three: Winston, Bunyan and Node-Loggly. Gergely Nemeth [Fundamental Node.js Design Patterns](http://blog.risingstack.com/fundamental-node-js-design-patterns/)Quick looks at singletons, observers, factories, dependency injection, and other patterns with simple JavaScript examples. 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I’m sure you could come up with some clever (and potentially naughty) uses for this. StrongLoop [Build Real-Time Node.js Apps with Angular LiveSet and LoopBack](https://strongloop.com/strongblog/build-real-time-apps-with-angular-liveset-and-loopback/)LiveSet is an Angular module that makes it easy to build real time applications. Jobs - [Senior Software Engineer at Hello Alfred (NYC)](https://boards.greenhouse.io/helloalfred/jobs/48652#.VaUFCpOqqko) High-profile Series A startup seeks engineers to design solutions at the intersection of human behavior and technology. You’ll deploy code daily and have a direct influence on technology choices, data architecture, and the scalability of the platform. Hello Alfred - [Fullstack Engineer At DataHero (San Francisco, CA)](https://datahero.com/jobs/) Join a startup that is at the center of cloud computing, data visualization, and machine learning. Recently raised series A funding, the winner of 2014 Strata Startup is looking for awesome engineers help us build our intelligent data visualization platform. DataHero - [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 with top clients, set your own rates, and work from anywhere as an elite Toptal Node.js developer. Join the most exclusive network of top software engineers in the world. Toptal In Brief - [N|Support: NodeSource Launches Enterprise Node.js Support Offering](https://nodesource.com/products/nsupport) news NodeSource - [Monitoring Your Express Application using WebSockets](http://snowflake.me/?p=51) tutorial Ties together intercept-stdout, socket.io, and a simple HTML page. Snowflake - [How to Create and Publish Your First Node.js Module](https://medium.com/@jdaudier/how-to-create-and-publish-your-first-node-js-module-444e7585b738) tutorial If you haven’t quite got there yet, this is a thorough walkthrough. Joanne - [Write Templates Like A Node.js Pro: Handlebars Tutorial](http://webapplog.com/handlebars/) tutorial Azat Mardan - [Relational to JSON with Node.js on Oracle](https://jsao.io/2015/07/relational-to-json-with-node-js/) tutorial Dan McGhan - [Do not reinvent the feed - Stream](http://getstream.io/?utm_source=nodejsweeklyjuly16&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nodejsweekly) tools Build scalable newsfeeds activity streams in a few hours instead of weeks. StreamSponsor - [Fly: A Modern Build System for Node](https://github.com/flyjs/fly) tools The latest in a long line of build systems. This one is based around modern JavaScript concepts like co-routines, generators and promises. 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