--- title: "This Week's Node.js News - Issue 127" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 127 published_at: "2016-03-03" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/127" --- This Week's Node.js News - Issue 127 This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/127) Node WeeklyMarch 3, 2016 #127 Smashing Magazine [Server-Side Rendering With React, Node And Express](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/03/server-side-rendering-react-node-express/)An incredibly in-depth tutorial, complete with code, diagrams, and insights, into the process behind creating an isomorphic/universal React app using React and Express. SitePoint [Creating a GraphQL Server with Node.js and MongoDB](http://www.sitepoint.com/creating-graphql-server-nodejs-mongodb/)GraphQL is a new query language that lets a client side app describe the data it needs in order for the server to supply it in a single request. This post looks at creating an Express server to satisfy GraphQL requests. 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Eliezer Steinbock [First Experiences Scaling A Meteor App](https://medium.com/@eliezer/first-experiences-scaling-a-meteor-app-14a48e62a4af)Quite an in-depth look at what’s involved. Oliver Rumbelow [NodeJS Supercomputing [video\]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mYl6v0Kzt0)A 25 minute talk looking at how to take a heavily used Node app and scale it across many cores and servers. Isaiah Grey [Build A 'Weather by SMS' Service with Twilio and Node](https://blog.stamplay.com/build-a-weather-by-sms-service-with-twilio-and-nodejs/)It’ll let you send an SMS to your Twilio number with the name of a city and then return a weather forecast. NodeBB [NodeBB 1.0 Released: Node-Based Forum Software](https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB)NodeBB runs on either Redis or MongoDB and uses WebSockets for fast interactions and real-time notifications. 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