node
- News
- 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…
- Engineering
- Last Updated: October 29, 2014
- David Gouldin
[Heroku Connect] [heroku_connect] is written primarily in Python using Django. It's an add-on and a platform app, meaning it's built on the Heroku platform. Part of our interface provides users with a realtime dashboard, so we decided to take advantage of socket.io and node.js for websocket communication. But like all Heroku apps, only one type of dyno can serve traffic. This left us with two choices: manage 2 apps, each with its own repo, and carefully consider when and how we deployed them, or find a way to serve both node and Django traffic from the same app.
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- News
- 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.
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