This Week's Node News - Issue 67

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node weekly January 1, 2015  #67

THE NPM BLOG npm's Year in Numbers: 2014 The official npm repository grew from 53k to 115k packages, now serves 25 million downloads a day (up from 6 million at the start of the year), and more. As a partial reflection of the growth of Node itself, things appear to be booming. MAX EDMANDS Getting Started with Selenium Webdriver for Node.js A step-by-step guide to start controlling a browser using selenium-webdriver from Node. Great for acceptance testing. FRONTEND MASTERS   SPONSORED New Course on JS.Next: ES6 Aaron Frost, JS.Next: ES6 master, gives you a crash course on the changes JavaScript is seeing on the client and server in Node.js. Get going with the new language features of JavaScript. Try out a free lesson: Introducing Destructuring. NODE.JS BLOG Node v0.10.35 (Stable) Released RISINGSTACK Functional Reactive Programming with the Power of Node.js Streams Aims to get you interested in Node.js’ streams and the concept of functional reactive programming. P'UNK AVENUE prettiest: Simple Data Storage and Locking for Command Line Node.js Utilities Essentially a very simple persistent storage object stored on the file system (somewhat like Ruby’s PStore). Jobs Senior Node.js Developer at Livestream (Brooklyn, NY) You would be working in a small team responsible for Livestream's REST API, fully written in Node.js, which powers an entire ecosystem of apps. LIVESTREAM Top Node Weekly Items from 2014 A handful of posts we linked to that got the most engagement or provoked the most discussion in 2014. Top 10 Mistakes Node.js Developers Make A long piece full of tips. Includes not using enough automated tools, blocking the event loop, poor logging, executing a callback multiple times, and more. One of our most clicked items ever.   ALEXANDRU VLADUTU Node.js Design Best Practices A look at some patterns used through Node code you can apply to your own.   JOYENT 3 Essential Sublime Text Plugins for Node Developers A lot of you must be Sublime users as this article was popular here.   SCOTT SMITH Why io.js Decided to Fork Node.js io.js came late in the year and interest around what it means for the future of Node remains strong.   INFOWORLD Using Node.js in Production    MODERN WEB Seven Things You Should Stop Doing with Node.js    AZAT MARDAN In brief npm Enterprise with GitHub 2FA TUTORIAL  THE NPM BLOG Building A Simple API with Express and Bookshelf.js TUTORIAL  QAWELESIZWE MLILO Building A RESTful API in Node.js using Hapi.js 8.0 TUTORIAL  RAFAEL CORRAL URL Parameters and Routing in Express.js TUTORIAL  AZAT MARDAN 6 Easy Ways to Prevent Your Heroku Node App From Sleeping    QUICK LEFT Deploying Hybrid HTML5 Games on the Desktop Using node-webkit    HTML5 HUB Noderunner: To Run Scripts Every Second, Minute, Hour or Day CODE  DAVE WINER node-awsm: A MongoDB-esque Interface for Controlling AWS CODE Still considered to be in ‘alpha’.   CRAIG JEFFERDS chrome-devtools-app: Chrome DevTools Packaged as an App via node-webkit CODE  KENNETH AUCHENBERG LoadBalancer.js: A Simple Load Balancer for Node.js with A Focus On Persistent Realtime Connections CODE  TOPCLOUD New Year, New UI for the API: Why We Chose Angular We just rewrote the entire Stormpath API console in Angular.js. Get our tips on how to design and architect interfaces for RESTful services, and why we went with Angular.   STORMPATH   SPONSORED