--- title: "#349: React in a single post, Node forked, and using JS in key-value stores" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 349 published_at: "2017-08-25" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/349" --- #349: React in a single post, Node forked, and using JS in key-value stores This week's JavaScript news — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/349) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 349 — August 25, 2017 August is always a quiet time in the programming world as people are enjoying vacations or the weather rather than creating articles or new projects :-) Bear with us, things always pick up in September. Till then, to suggest items for future issues you can tweet us [@JavaScriptDaily](https://twitter.com/javascriptdaily) or hit reply to this email. _Your editor,_ _Peter Cooper_[All The Fundamental React Concepts, Jammed Into A Single Post](https://medium.freecodecamp.org/all-the-fundamental-react-js-concepts-jammed-into-this-single-medium-article-c83f9b53eac2)A practical introduction to the fundamentals of React for those who are already familiar with JavaScript and know the basics of the DOM API. Samer Buna [Using JS for Extending Low-Latency In-Memory Key-Value Stores](https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/08/22/javascript-for-extending-low-latency-in-memory-key-value-stores/)A look at JavaScript’s potential in a high performance database setting, based around [this academic paper](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotcloud17/hotcloud17-paper-zhang.pdf) (PDF). Adrian Colyer [Node Forked Over Complaints of Unresponsive Leadership](https://thenewstack.io/node-js-forked-complaints-repeated-harassment/)The fork is called [Ayo.](https://github.com/ayojs/ayo) It stems from a [controversial vote](https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/310) to remove a member (Rod Vagg) from Node’s TSC, and Rod has [also responded in turn.](https://github.com/nodejs/CTC/issues/165#issuecomment-324798494) The New Stack [![Progress\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/7308719b.png)](http://www.telerik.com/campaigns/kendo-ui/javascript-future-2017?utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=jsweeklyprimary&utm_campaign=kendo-ui-whitepaper-futurejs17-2017q3)[[Whitepaper\] The Future of JavaScript—2017 and Beyond](http://www.telerik.com/campaigns/kendo-ui/javascript-future-2017?utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=jsweeklyprimary&utm_campaign=kendo-ui-whitepaper-futurejs17-2017q3)2017 predictions for the key and rising JavaScript libraries and frameworks and JS’s New Frontiers in this whitepaper. 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