Re:Ask HN: Does Node dominate at new startups?
by notduncansmith on Saturday August 02, 2014 @07:56PM
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I wish I did. I can say that watching a lot of Rich Hickey's talks and Gary Bernhardt's Destroy All Software screencasts have made me a better programmer in general, and that has carried over into my Node development practices.
Here's a few nuggets that will help you:
- Use promises instead of callbacks, specifically Q. Don't let anyone tell you the performance will hurt you - I guarantee that promise execution time is not your bottleneck.
- Use event listeners for things like kicking off email notifications.
- Use Mandrill for sending those emails.
- Use promises.
- MySQL is still good tech.
- Use Sequelize to make using MySQL/Postgres not hurt.
- Abstract into middleware when you can.
- Bogart > Express.
- Use promises.
- Use dependency injection (Omni-DI is a good library for this).
- Route handlers are for orchestration, not core business operations.
- Avoid for loops. Prefer Array methods like forEach, map, reduce, and filter.
- Use promises.
I plan on doing more writing about this sort of thing when I have time.
Here's a few nuggets that will help you:
- Use promises instead of callbacks, specifically Q. Don't let anyone tell you the performance will hurt you - I guarantee that promise execution time is not your bottleneck.
- Use event listeners for things like kicking off email notifications.
- Use Mandrill for sending those emails.
- Use promises.
- MySQL is still good tech.
- Use Sequelize to make using MySQL/Postgres not hurt.
- Abstract into middleware when you can.
- Bogart > Express.
- Use promises.
- Use dependency injection (Omni-DI is a good library for this).
- Route handlers are for orchestration, not core business operations.
- Avoid for loops. Prefer Array methods like forEach, map, reduce, and filter.
- Use promises.
I plan on doing more writing about this sort of thing when I have time.