A collection of proficient Node.js dev practices

Tao of Node: On Design, Architecture and Best Practices — A developer has boiled down all of the hard-earned best practices and gut feelings he’s picked up for developing high-quality Node apps over time. Opinionated, yes, but high level enough to provide value to most.

Alex Kondov

AWS Graviton2 vs Apple M1 for Node.js Performance — A casual and personal benchmark, with all that implies, and while the M1 continues to impress for local development, it’s neat to see other production grade ARM-based systems ready to go too.

Jamie Knight

How to Manage Sessions using Passport, Redis, and MySQL — A practical walkthrough of creating a simple Express app with user credentials stored in MySQL, sessions in Redis, and Passport tying it all together. A commonly used pattern boiled down to the essentials.

Clara Ekekenta

Authorization in a Microservices World — Thinking through from a simple approach to full-on attribute-based access control. Not Node specific though the final example is Express-based.

Alexander Lolis

Dum: An npm Script Runner Written in Rust — Continuing a trend of building JavaScript tools in, well, not JavaScript, the curiously named ‘Dum’ aims to replace npm run and npx to shave milliseconds off the task startup time. YMMV..

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