Below you can find RisingStack's collection of the most important Node.js news, updates, projects & tutorials from this week:

This is a special release to fix potentially Semver-Major regression that was released in v9.6.0

events: events.usingDomains being set to false by default was removed in 9.6.0 which was a change in behavior compares to 9.5.0. This behavior change has been reverted and the events object now has usingDomains preset to false, which is the behavior in 9.x prior to 9.6.0 (Myles Borins)



A new release of npm, fatally changes file permissions. This has been fixed already, but the entire messy process revealed more fundamental problems.

By running sudo npm under a non-root user (root users do not have the same effect), filesystem permissions are being heavily modified.

When you're building Docker containers, you should aim for as small images as possible. As smaller size images that share layers are quicker to transfer and deploy.

This article will show you how to use Promise.prototype.finally() and how to write your own simplified polyfill.

In this article, you can take a glance on how to implement your own real-time post statistics (we’ll limit ourselves to Likes) for Twitter in a simple Node.js app.



In this tutorial, we’ll quickly implement the basic authentication flow using JSON Web Tokens that a Strapi API provides.

Also, we'll check how to use authentication providers (Facebook, GitHub, Google…) with Strapi to authenticate your users.

The 2nd episode of the Top of the Stack is out!

We interviewed Angel Manuel Cereijo Martinez and Roberto Ansuini to get some great architectural insights about Fintonic and learn how they built their backend using #Nodejs & #Kubernetes, and #MongoDB.

Would you like to know more about the Node.js Fundamentals, Microservices, Kubernetes, Angular, or React? We have good news for you!

How to prepare for a React Interview? Here's our inspiration for both interviewers and interviewees.

These questions help us at RisingStack to find enthusiastic, knowledgeable React.js developers.

In the previous Weekly Node.js Update, we collected great articles, like

Node v6.13.0 (LTS) was released;

Top 1000 most depended-upon packages;

5 Practical Ways To Share Code: From NPM To Lerna And Bit;

Reducing GraphQL response size by… a lot;

& more...

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