--- title: "This Week's Node.js News - Issue 99" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 99 published_at: "2015-08-13" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/99" --- This Week's Node.js News - Issue 99 This week's Node and io.js news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/99) Node WeeklyAugust 13, 2015 #99 Jonathon Kresner [Express and PassportJS Sessions Deep Dive](https://www.airpair.com/express/posts/expressjs-and-passportjs-sessions-deep-dive)AirPair CEO Jonathon Kresner got stuck getting things working using the PassportJS authentication system with Express, so he’s written up exactly how to make it work first time. GitHub [Official Node Repo Now Based Off The Old io.js Repo](https://github.com/nodejs/node#cnv)Node will still be called ‘Node’ but this step means Node’s repo is now based off of the io.js source code. The README hasn’t been updated to reflect this yet, however. SitePoint [How to Run Node.js with Express on Mobile Devices](http://www.sitepoint.com/how-to-run-node-js-with-express-on-mobile-devices/)A look at how to run Express applications on mobile devices via Cordova using the JXCore project. DatadogSponsor [Cloud-Scale Performance Monitoring Made Easy with Datadog](http://dtdg.co/1ISXpPD)Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools in one place. Start your Free Trial of Datadog today and check out our seamless Node.js integration! [![Datadog\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/109eaa44.png)](http://dtdg.co/1ISXpPD) StrongLoop [An Introduction To JavaScript ES6 Classes](https://strongloop.com/strongblog/an-introduction-to-javascript-es6-classes/)A primer to classes in ES6/JavaScript 2015 starting from how you’d mimic their abilities in ES5. Titus Wormer [mdast: A Plugin-Powered Markdown Processor](https://github.com/wooorm/mdast)It’s not just a Markdown to HTML compiler but can also generate and reformat, and be extended by plugins. Fully test covered too. Christoph Wagner [Deep Dreaming with Node.js, or: Web Automation for Fun and Profit](https://www.codementor.io/nodejs/tutorial/google-deep-dreaming-web-automation-chrome-dev-tools#/)A look at how a developer rigged up a quick Node script to automatically push images to a Web service for processing. Jobs - [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. 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