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- Last Updated: March 29, 2024
- Jeremy Morrell
It’s been a little over a year since our last Happy Node Hackers post, and even in such a short time much has changed and some powerful new tools have been released. The Node.js ecosystem continues to mature and new best practices have emerged. Here are 8 habits for happy Node hackers updated for 2017. They're specifically for app developers, rather than module authors, since those groups have different goals and constraints: 1. Lock Down Your Dependency Tree In modern Node applications, your code is often only the tip of an iceberg. Even a small application could have thousands of…
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- Last Updated: April 12, 2024
- Hunter Loftis
At the tail end of 2015, JavaScript developers have a glut of tools at our disposal. The last time we looked into this, the modern JS landscape was just emerging. Today, it's easy to get lost in our huge ecosystem, so successful teams follow guidelines to make the most of their time and keep their projects healthy. Here are ten habits for happy Node.js hackers as we enter 2016. They're specifically for app developers, rather than module authors, since those groups have different goals and constraints: 1. Start every new project with npm init Npm's init command will scaffold out…
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- Last Updated: April 02, 2024
- Zeke Sikelianos
This post is from 2014 – check out the update! For most of the nearly twenty years since its inception, JavaScript lacked many of the niceties that made other programming languages like Python and Ruby so attractive: command-line interfaces, a REPL, a package manager, and an organized open-source community. Thanks in part to Node.js and npm, today's JavaScript landscape is dramatically improved. Web developers wield powerful new tools, and are limited only by their imagination. What follows is a list of tips and techniques to keep you and your node apps happy. 1. Start new projects with npm init npm…
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