Node 9.4, new npm package naming rules and how to be a better Node dev in 2018

This week's Node news Read this e-mail on the Web Node Weekly January 11, 2018  #220 Geoff Wagstaff Running a Node App on AWS ECS: An EC2 Container Service Walkthrough If you’re using Amazon Web Services, ECS can be attractive way to run apps - this article digs into why and some of the things to watch out for when using it to run Node apps. Part 2. The npm Blog New npm Package Naming Rules To prevent typosquatting and user confusion, npm Inc. has tweaked its package naming rules. For example, names are no longer punctuation sensitive. Gergely Nemeth How to Become a Better Node.js Developer in 2018 A few straightforward best practices which could help you be a better Node developer in the coming year. Frontend Masters   Sponsor 📣 New Course: Advanced State in React with Redux, MobX & More Learn the patterns to manage state across large React applications. Take a tour through the popular approaches and libraries to state management like Flux, Redux, MobX, Redux Thunks and Redux Sagas in this new course by Steve Kinney. Node.js Foundation Node v9.4 (Current) Released No huge upgrades, but npm upgraded, several improvements to the http2 module, buffer’s readDouble and readFloat are 2-8x faster. Vincent Mühler Simple Face Recognition from Node face-recognition.js is a Node wrapper for dlib, a C++ machine learning library that can be manipulated to do facial recognition. Oliver Moran Jimp: Image Processing Library with No Native Dependencies Covers resizing, cropping, color manipulations, and more. Pure JS and solely for Node. The npm Blog An npm Operational Incident on January 6 106 packages appeared to be missing for a brief period of time which broke packages that depended on them. Jobs Full Stack JavaScript Developer (Berlin) Full Stack Developer wanted to help build the next generation of Contentful content delivery services using Node.js and modern JavaScript. Content infrastructure Looking for a Job at a Company That Prioritizes Node? Try Vettery and we’ll connect you directly with thousands of companies looking for talented back-end devs. Vettery In Brief If You're Still Using Node 4, It's Seriously Time to Upgrade news James M Snell on Twitter The Impact of Meltdown and Spectre on Node.js news Essentially no issues, if you cover yourself at the OS level. Node.js Foundation Node by Numbers 2017: A Report on Node's Growth news Show yet more impressive, continued growth for Node. Nodesource Building a Serverless REST API with Node.js and MongoDB tutorial Adnan Rahić How to Convert a RESTful Node API to Serverless with OpenWhisk tutorial Nic Raboy User Authentication with Passport and Koa tutorial Michael Herman Generated Columns and ProxySQL Instead of Referenced Tables tutorial Percona   Sponsor How I Ported 'bcrypt' to The New N-API tutorial Nicola Del Gobbo A Deep Dive into the 'fs' Module tutorial fs is a key part of Node for interacting with the filesystem. Safia Abdalla Exploring Node with Mark Hinkle, Director of the Node.js Foundation podcast The New Stack 8 Tips to Build Better Node Apps in 2018 opinion Brief tips including being familiar with ES modules and HTTP/2. Bertalan Miklos Do CI/CD in the Cloud, Keep Your Code On-Premise with Codeship & Github Enterprise tools Codeship + GitHub Enterprise   Sponsor basic-ftp: An FTP/FTPS Client for Node code Patrick Juchli Sapper: A New Next.js-Style Webapp Framework from Svelte code Rich Harris 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