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title: "What's Next for Node.js?"
publication: "Node Weekly"
issue: 215
published_at: "2017-11-23"
canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/215"
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What's Next for Node.js?

This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/215)

Node WeeklyNovember 23, 2017 #215

A slightly shorter than usual issue today in respect of Thanksgiving. We hope you have a good one if you celebrate it. Peter Czibik 

[Writing Native Node Modules with Rust](https://blog.risingstack.com/node-js-native-modules-with-rust/)The steps behind writing a modern, fast and safe native Node module using Rust, a language focused on both speed and safety.
 TJ Holowaychuk 

[node-prune: Remove Unnecessary Files From node_modules](https://github.com/tj/node-prune)Is your node_modules directory bursting at the seams? Here’s one potential solution. It’s written in Go, but someone else has created a JS alternative called [nm-prune](https://github.com/pingyhq/nm-prune).
 CodeshipSponsor

[Codeship Ranked Amongst Top 5 Continuous Integration Vendors by Forrester](https://codeship.com/forrester-wave-continuous-integration-report?utm_source=email-sponsorship&utm_medium=cpc-node-weekly-primary&utm_campaign=forrester-wave-ci-report)Codeship ahead of IBM, AWS, Atlassian, and more. To be considered for Forrester’s report, companies needed to have a comprehensive CI product with a strong vision, more than 25 paying enterprise companies, and a strong product vision.

[![Codeship\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/f4ae3526.png)](https://codeship.com/forrester-wave-continuous-integration-report?utm_source=email-sponsorship&utm_medium=cpc-node-weekly-primary&utm_campaign=forrester-wave-ci-report)
 James Snell 

[Video: What's Next for Node.js?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVfQ8KtRptM)A 30 minute talk from a core team member on what’s happening in the core of Node.js and where things are headed (despite there being no official roadmap).
 Dominik Kundel 

[Putting The Helmet On: Securing Your Express App](https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/11/securing-your-express-app.html)How to use modules like ‘[helmet](https://helmetjs.github.io/)’ to improve the security of an Express app.
 Semaphore 

[Node Versions Used in Commercial Projects in 2017](https://semaphoreci.com/blog/2017/11/22/nodejs-versions-used-in-commercial-projects-in-2017.html)An analysis of Node versions used in projects on Semaphore’s hosted CI/CD service.


In Brief

- [A Free Intro to Node.js Course from Microsoft](https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-node-js-microsoft-dev283x) course 
A beginner’s guide to creating web apps using Node, Express and MongoDB.
Benjamin Lin and Azat Mardan
- [Using OpenCV for Face Recognition from Node](https://medium.com/@muehler.v/node-js-opencv-for-face-recognition-37fa7cb860e8) tutorial 
Vincent Mühler
- [The Performance Cost of Server Side Rendered React on Node.js](https://malloc.fi/performance-cost-of-server-side-rendered-react-node-js) opinion 
_“there is a price to pay for server side rendered React.js”_
Jani Tarvainen
- [synp: Convert yarn.lock to package-lock.json and Vice Versa](https://github.com/imsnif/synp) tools 
Possibly handy if your team ends up flip-flopping between Yarn and npm.
Aram Drevekenin
- [raspchat: A Chat Server That Can Run on a Raspberry Pi](https://github.com/maxpert/raspchat) code 
Zohaib Sibte Hassan
- [clean-mark: Convert Web Articles Into Clean Markdown Text](https://github.com/croqaz/clean-mark) code 
Cristi Constantin
- [Z: Pattern Matching for JavaScript](https://z-pattern-matching.github.io/) code 
Though not quite the same as the official [ES pattern matching syntax](https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pattern-matching) proposal.
- [bent: Functional HTTP Client for Node with async/await Support](https://github.com/mikeal/bent) code 
Mikeal Rogers

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