Should npm Really Be Used as a Build Tool?

I’d like to talk about one of the web’s new “best practises” and my personal experiences with it. The intention behind this article isn’t to get as much developers as possible away from using npm as a build tool, but rather to contribute to a large…

What’s New With Feathers: Issue #1

Now that a few more people are paying attention to FeathersJS we wanted to make it easier for everyone to get visibility into the ongoing changes in the Feathers ecosystem.

How V8 optimises JavaScript code?

In my previous article, I was talking about NodeJS and why it’s fast. Today, I want to talk about V8.

I suppose, some of you heard that JavaScript executes as fast as C++. Some of you don’t understand how it’s even possible. JavaScript is a…

Private Methods in ES6 and Writing Your Own DB

Lessons learned from making my first npm package

Decided to write a database in Javascript for server side developer freedom in NodeJS. ES6 is my preferred flavor of Javascript, so off I went. Here is what I learned from…

While this seems nice in theory, if your server is properly configured, the only thing Nginx should be doing is proxying port 80/443 requests to the port your Nodejs app is running on.

For the purpose of security (and this CRITICAL) you Nodejs app should be run as a non-privileged user, meaning requests sent by this user for…

A Custom Node REPL with History is not as hard as it looks

A quick note on how we built the REPL pack for Trails.js

A search for how to set up a custom REPL (Read, Evaluate, Print Loop) in Node yields results with many…