Node

API Reference: https://nodejs.org/api

End of life/release schedule:

• https://github.com/nodejs/Release/#release-schedule
• https://endoflife.date/nodejs

https://github.com/goldbergyoni/nodebestpractices

Shell scripting with Node.js (Axel Rauschmayer) - https://exploringjs.com/nodejs-shell-scripting

tip

Use the watch mode with node --watch (added in v18.11.0). For example do node --watch index.js.

Node.js testing - https://github.com/testjavascript/nodejs-integration-tests-best-practices

Libraries

• https://nodejs.libhunt.com
• https://nodejstoolbox.com

HTTP clients

https://github.com/sindresorhus/got#comparison

• https://github.com/sindresorhus/got
• https://github.com/node-fetch/node-fetch

HTTP testing

• https://github.com/nock/nock - HTTP server mocking and expectations library for Node.js

Logging

https://betterstack.com/community/guides/logging/nodejs-logging-best-practices

• https://github.com/winstonjs/winston
• https://github.com/debug-js/debug
• https://github.com/pinojs/pino → use it on Express with https://github.com/pinojs/pino-http (see https://github.com/pinojs/pino/blob/master/docs/web.md#pino-with-express)
• https://github.com/klaussinani/signale
• https://github.com/expressjs/morgan → request logger middleware that integrates with Express
• https://github.com/gajus/roarr

Email

• https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer
• https://github.com/forwardemail/email-templates
  • This project uses it: https://github.com/Saas-Starter-Kit/SAAS-Starter-Kit-Pro/tree/main/server/emails / https://github.com/Saas-Starter-Kit/SAAS-Starter-Kit-Pro/blob/cdec5491b8ed52313cedb07ecfbc7657966689f2/server/src/Config/email.js
• https://github.com/eladnava/mailgen
• https://github.com/eleith/emailjs
• Convert HTML to text: https://github.com/EthanRBrown/web-development-with-node-and-express-2e/blob/99c116fb90f2e08c9f231e52d167ad6097df444a/ch11/04-rendering-html-email.js#L63 The project uses Handlebars for HTML emails and it uses html-to-formatted-text to get the text version of the email

Rate limit

• https://github.com/animir/node-rate-limiter-flexible
• https://github.com/nfriedly/express-rate-limit
• https://github.com/tj/node-ratelimiter

See https://github.com/goldbergyoni/nodebestpractices/blob/master/sections/security/login-rate-limit.md

With Redis:

• https://github.com/guardian/gateway/tree/main/src/server/lib/rate-limit
• https://github.dev/lesterfernandez/react-live-messenger/blob/master/packages/server/controllers/express/rateLimiter.js

Environment variables

• https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv
• https://github.com/KATT/envsafe

Version managers

Which tools/services support .node-version file: https://github.com/shadowspawn/node-version-usage

https://twitter.com/Netlify/status/1496177878182121472

• nvm - https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm - There's a ZSH plugin: https://github.com/lukechilds/zsh-nvm
• n - https://github.com/tj/n
• Fast Node Manager - https://github.com/Schniz/fnm
• Volta - https://volta.sh
• asdf - https://asdf-vm.com - Ojo veure https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30917800 i https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf/issues/290

REPL

https://nodejs.dev/learn/how-to-use-the-nodejs-repl

Use node to start it. To exit, type .exit, or press Ctrl+C twice, or press Ctrl+D once.

You can watch files without nodemon with --watch, eg node --watch index.js.

Commands:

• .help - list commands
• .break or .clear
• .editor
• .load <filename> - load file
• .save <filename> - save commands you've run into a file

Debug

https://nodejs.org/api/debugger.html

Write debugger where you want to stop and then run node inspect index.js.

Then:

• n steps to the next line
• c continues the execution. Will stop if a debugger is found
• repl allows you to inspect variables with console.log

https://blog.openreplay.com/an-introduction-to-debugging-in-nodejs/

Performance

Clinic.js - Performance profiling suite - https://clinicjs.org - https://github.com/clinicjs/node-clinic

Detecting Node Event Loop Blockers - https://www.ashbyhq.com/blog/engineering/detecting-event-loop-blockers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30713567

https://nodejs.org/en/docs/guides/dont-block-the-event-loop/

Databases

https://blog.logrocket.com/why-you-should-avoid-orms-with-examples-in-node-js-e0baab73fa5/

https://contra.com/p/gkOQlbLq-validating-postgre-sql-query-results-using-runtime-checks

ESLint plugin: https://safeql.dev

PostgreSQL client

• https://github.com/brianc/node-postgres (pg) - https://node-postgres.com
• https://github.com/vitaly-t/pg-promise - Adds features to node-postgres
• https://github.com/gajus/slonik - Built on top of node-postgres
• https://github.com/porsager/postgres

Query Builder

• https://github.com/knex/knex - https://knexjs.org
  • See Stop using Knex.js: https://gajus.medium.com/stop-using-knex-js-and-earn-30-bf410349856c

ORM

• https://github.com/sequelize/sequelize
• https://github.com/typeorm/typeorm/
• https://github.com/mikro-orm/mikro-orm

Data mapper

• https://gitlab.com/dmfay/massive-js

Generate TypeScript from SQL

• https://github.com/adelsz/pgtyped

Sample code repos and starters

• https://github.com/hagopj13/node-express-boilerplate
  • REST, MongoDB, Docker, JWT (in Authorization header, not in cookie), reset password, verify email, testing with Jest, supertest and node-mocks-http
• https://github.com/ljlm0402/typescript-express-starter
  • Express, TypeScript, pg, TypeORM, GraphQL, Docker
• https://github.com/kriasoft/node-starter-kit
  • Node.js / GraphQL project template pre-configured with TypeScript, PostgreSQL, login flow, transactional emails, unit tests, CI/CD workflow.
  • GraphQL, PostgreSQL, JWT stored in cookie
• https://github.com/kriasoft/relay-starter-kit
  • Monorepo template (seed project) pre-configured with GraphQL API, PostgreSQL, React, Relay, Material UI.
  • (Full Stack) Terraform, SPA with React, GraphQL, Relay, PostgreSQL (Google Cloud SQL, Knex), session cookie
• https://github.com/danielfsousa/express-rest-boilerplate
  • Docker
• https://github.com/guardian/gateway
  • React, Redis, Cypress, Jest, Rate limit
• https://github.com/async-labs/builderbook - https://builderbook.org/
  • Open source web application to learn JS stack: React, Material-UI, Next.js, Node.js, Express.js, Mongoose, MongoDB database.
  • AWS Cloudfront
• https://github.com/diegohaz/rest
  • REST API generator with Node.js, Express and Mongoose
  • Password reset,
• https://github.com/ljlm0402/typescript-express-starter
  • Quick and Easy TypeScript Express Starter
  • Docker, auth with JWT in cookie (see the 'default' template), GraphQL, TypeORM, Sequelize
• https://github.com/tanem/express-bookshelf-realworld-example-app
  • Docker
• https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter
  • A boilerplate for Node.js web applications
  • Not really good, very basic. MongoDB

HTTP2

https://github.com/azat-co/practicalnode/blob/master/chapter13/chapter13.md

Docker

https://github.com/azat-co/practicalnode/blob/master/chapter15/chapter15.md