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title: "#193: Node Will Overtake Java Within a Year"
publication: "Node Weekly"
issue: 193
published_at: "2017-06-22"
canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/193"
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#193: Node Will Overtake Java Within a Year

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Node WeeklyJune 22, 2017 #193 Samer Buna 

[Child Processes in Node: Everything You Need to Know](https://medium.freecodecamp.com/node-js-child-processes-everything-you-need-to-know-e69498fe970a)How to use spawn(), exec(), execFile(), and fork().
 Michelle Gienow 

['Node.js Will Overtake Java Within a Year'](https://thenewstack.io/open-source-profile-mikeal-rogers-node-js/)An interview with the departing Node.js Foundation community manager where he remarks on the growth of the Node ecosystem.
 Dave Ceddia 

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[Node-ChakraCore Releases Keep On Coming](https://github.com/nodejs/node-chakracore/releases)A separate Node build that lets Node use Microsoft’s ChakraCore JavaScript engine instead of V8.
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[Building Microservices with Grenache](http://blog.bitfinex.com/tutorial/bitfinex-loves-microservices-grenache/)Grenache is a micro-framework for connecting microservices in a peer-to-peer style. An interesting approach for Node developers.
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[Kickstarter to Open Source 'Practical Node.js, 2nd Edition'](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/azat/practical-nodejs-book-2nd-edition-open-sourced-on)Azat Mardan wants to open up the development of the 2nd edition of his popular book and the Kickstarter is almost completely funded.


In Brief

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- [Building a Geocoding Proxy with Paperplane](https://robertwpearce.com/blog/node-js-geocoding-proxy-with-paperplane.html) tutorial 
Using Node with Paperplane to create proxy servers to handle requests in a safe fashion. Robert Pearce
- [Creating A Project Generator with Node](https://medium.com/@harrietty/creating-a-project-generator-with-node-29e13b3cd309) tutorial Harriet Ryder
- [Implementing Two-Factor Authentication with Node](https://davidwalsh.name/2fa) tutorial David Walsh
- [Build A Simple Weather App with Node in 16 Lines](https://codeburst.io/build-a-simple-weather-app-with-node-js-in-just-16-lines-of-code-32261690901d) tutorial Brandon Morelli
- [What You Need to Know About npm 5](https://blog.pusher.com/what-you-need-know-npm-5/) tutorial Yomi Eluwande
- [How Do Express Sessions Work?](http://nodewebapps.com/2017/06/18/how-do-nodejs-sessions-work/) tutorial Tilo Mitra
- [Building a Node App with TypeScript](https://blog.risingstack.com/building-a-node-js-app-with-typescript-tutorial/) tutorial 
How to build, structure, test and debug an app written in TypeScript. RisingStack Engineering
- [Enterprise Conversations: How Intel Uses Node.js](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBR6WcSIqBE) video YouTube
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- [Photon: Syntax Highlighting as a Service](https://photon.sh/) tools 
There’s a [Node library](https://github.com/photonsh/photon-node) for using it, too. Photon
- [Redbird: A Powerful Reverse Proxy for Node](https://github.com/OptimalBits/redbird) code 
A long standing project with clustering, HTTP2, LetsEncrypt and Docker support. OptimalBits
- [A Pure Node.js Port of 'netcat'](https://github.com/roccomuso/netcat) code Rocco Musolino
- [Fawn: Promise-based Library for Transactions in MongoDB](https://github.com/e-oj/Fawn) code Emmanuel Olaojo
- [masq: A Simple Local DNS Server (for MacOS only)](https://github.com/7anshuai/masq) code 
Written in CoffeeScript but is a Node app. Tan Shuai
- [next-blog: Build a Markdown Based Blog using Next.js](https://github.com/tscanlin/next-blog) code Tim Scanlin
- [JSON Server: Rapidly Get a Full Fake REST API Without Code](https://github.com/typicode/json-server) code Typicode
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