#207: A Guide to Using Node's util.promisfy

This week's Node news Read this e-mail on the Web Node Weekly September 28, 2017  #207 James Jeffery Why Node 8's util.promisify Is Awesome A guide to using Node’s util.promisfy to promisify your own functions. Node.js Foundation Node v8.6.0 (Current) Released A handful of minor changes, including N-API no longer being behind a flag. A vulnerability (mentioned below) was also fixed. Node.js Foundation Security Update: Path Validation Vulnerability 8.6 (above) fixed a path validation security vulnerability. Note that this does not affect v4.x or v6.x. Frontend Masters   Sponsor Introduction to Vue.js with Sarah Drasner Get up and running in a hurry with the Vue.js JavaScript framework. Learn how to build and maintain complex applications quickly and efficiently in this practical guide to Vue.js by Sarah Drasner. Maga D. Zandaqo Modern Ways to Use C++ in JavaScript Projects With N-API and WebAssembly, using C++ code in JavaScript becomes easier than ever and requires very little knowledge of C++. Cedric Ronvel Terminal Kit: A 'Full Blown' Terminal Lib for Node Includes support for 256 colors, styles, keys and mouse handling, input fields, progress bars, screen buffers, and more. In Brief BigInt: A Proposal for Arbitrary Precision Integers in JS news  Ecma TC39 JavaScript Telemetry: Black Box Recorder for App Crashes  Telemetry gives a timeline of browser events leading to errors. Debug better & know why your app crashed.  ROLLBAR   Sponsor How to Write Reliable Browser Tests using Selenium and Node tutorial  Todd Chaffee How to Integrate Elasticsearch into Your Node App tutorial  Kirill Goltsman Managing Connections with the MongoDB Node.js Driver tutorial  Valeri Karpov Practical Scalability Analysis with the Universal Scalability Law    VividCortex   Sponsor How Massive Companies Use Node.js at Scale story  Tierney Cyren From PHP to JavaScript with Node.js story Feedback on a successful migration from a PHP to a JavaScript stack using Node.  Vincent Desmares Create Beautiful, Dynamic React Apps with a Single Component Library - Try ExtReact for Free Today    Sencha, Inc.   Sponsor Cherow: A Fast, TypeScript-Based JavaScript Parser code  KFlash MoonMail: Send Email to Large Lists using AWS SES and Lambda code  Groa: Expressive gRPC Middleware Framework for Node code  Groa Node Weekly is curated by Peter Cooper and published by Cooperpress. Want to sponsor an issue? See our media kit. Want to post a job? E-mail us or use our self-serve system. Unsubscribe : Change email address : Read this issue on the Web © Cooperpress Ltd. Office 30, Lincoln Way, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK Email policy Privacy policy