Node Roundup: 0.11.7, 0.10.18, npm-check-updates, social-cms-backend

Node 0.11.7, 0.10.18

Node 0.11.7 and 0.10.18 were released last week. The unstable branch has seen changes across many of the core modules, particularly buffer and stream.

Meanwhile, 0.10.8 has fixes for stream and updates uv.

npm-check-updates

npm-check-updates (GitHub: tjunnone / npm-check-updates, License: Apache 2.0, npm: npm-check-updates) by...

Node 0.11.7, 0.10.18

Node 0.11.7 and 0.10.18 were released last week. The unstable branch has seen changes across many of the core modules, particularly buffer and stream.

Meanwhile, 0.10.8 has fixes for stream and updates uv.

npm-check-updates

npm-check-updates (GitHub: tjunnone / npm-check-updates, License: Apache 2.0, npm: npm-check-updates) by Tomas Junnonen is a module for displaying out of date modules in your package.json. It can also automatically update package.json.

I tried it against a few projects and it works OK, but it struggled with private repository URIs – it just shows the 404 npm returns.

social-cms-backend

social-cms-backend (GitHub: dai-shi / social-cms-backend, License: BSD, npm: social-cms-backend) by Daishi Kato is Express middleware that provides REST APIs for creating a social networks using AngularJS.

It uses passport for authentication, so it can work with various social networks.

Once it’s installed you can set up persistence using MongoDB, and Facebook with passport’s Facebook strategy:

varexpress=require('express');varSCB=require('social-cms-backend');varapp=express();app.use(SCB.middleware({mongodb_url:'mongodb://localhost:27017/socialcmsdb',passport_strategy:'facebook',facebook_app_id:process.env.FACEBOOK_APP_ID,facebook_app_secret:process.env.FACEBOOK_APP_SECRET}));app.listen(3000);