links-about-node

Just a bunch of links related to Node.js and nodejs internals

Also checkout videos on links-about-web-programming

Preamble

You should be unhappy with code you wrote a year ago. If you aren't, that means either A) you haven't learned anything in a year, B) your code can't be improved, or C) you never revisit old code. All of these are the kiss of death for software developers. -- from Coding Horror

Why I'm The Best Programmer In The World

Learn Javascript basics

• Javascript cheat sheet (pdf)
• Another cheat sheet (github repo)
• Yet Another cheat sheet (web page)
• ES6 cheat sheet (github repo)
• StandardJS guidelines to write beautiful code (web page)
• Node Hero: Getting started with Node.js tutorial (blog article) (Really good tutorial to begin with)
• Quick learn of new Javascript features

Node internals

Maybe, you should begin by reading What Hackers Learn That the Rest of Us Don't, specifically the section 2 if you "don't have time to read it all"

• Broken Promises: how promises can be misused (yt video)
• Which programming language is fastest? (benchmarks)
• Is JavaScript interpreted by design? (StackExchange thread)
• How JavaScript works: inside the V8 engine + 5 tips on how to write optimized code (blog article)
• A sneak peek into super optimized code in JS frameworks (yt conf)
• Just-in-time compilation explained (MDN)
• Libuv: the underlying lib of Node.js (youtube conference)
• Deep dive into libuv (youtube conference)
• Everything you need to know about node.js event loop (youtube conference)
• More on the node.js event loop (youtube conference)
• Node.js guide about the event loop (blog post)
• What is shared between threads, and what's not (stack exchange question)
• Why Threads Are a Bad Idea For Most Uses (pdf)
• How JavaScript works: memory management + how to handle 4 common memory leaks
• Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches (blog post)

Advanced uses

• Why Learn Functional Programming in JavaScript? (blog post)
• Templates literals | MDN
• Async functions (blog post)
• Express vs Hapi performance (2017) (blog post)
• Mistakes made with mongooseJS (blog post)
• Programming Best Practices: Memory Efficiency with Closures (yt conf)
• this operator examples
• arrow functions in react classes

Others

• The history of the URL (blog post)
• The Architecture of Open Source Applications

Unit testing

• A useful guide about testing
• The short version of this useful guide
• Unit testing Guide for Mongoose
• Mocking is a code smell (blog)

Debugging

• Node.js Tools for development debugging (blog post)
• Debug Node.js with Google Chrome (blog post)
• New DevTools features to debug Node.js (youtube conference)

Hardcore Debugging

The type of debugging you don't do for fun

• MDB to debug core dumps
• MDB_v8 to debug Node.js core dumps
• Debugging Node.js applications using core dumps
• Debugging Node.js in production (youtube conference) advanced debugging techniques

Security

• A Roadmap for Node.js Security (google sec team)
• Analyzing your repo for known-vulnerable dependencies (website)
• Writing secure node.js code (youtube conference)
• npm & dependencies security management (youtube conference)
• Somebody Tried to Hide a Backdoor in a Popular JavaScript npm Package
• Cross-Site Request Forgery mitigations (github)
• Eval no more: a journey through NodeJS' VM module, VM2 and Expression Language (blog post)

Use in production

• Node.js Logging Best practices (blog post)
• Node.js at scale (blog post) tutorial about using Node in production (dockerisation, scalability...)

Talks from companies

• Node.js at Uber (youtube conference)
• Designing (architecturally speaking) very large applications (Google) (text article + video)