🤓 #4: Portable Node.js

Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless

                January 28, 2019

            🤓 #4: Portable Node.js

                CockroachDB on RocksDB, Who is HorseJS, Verify NPM packages, JavaScript Iterator patterns, API mistakes, Engage with stories

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Portable Node.js

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                  "Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless"

                  — 
                  Thomas Edison,
                    Inventor

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Best 7 links of week #4, 2019

Portable Node.js

A very practical guide on how to write Node.js applications that can run seamlessly in WIndows, Mac OSx and Linux.

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Why we built CockroachDB on top of RocksDB

CockroachDB uses RocksDB for its storage engine because of RocksDB's rich feature set, which is necessary for a complex product like a distributed SQL database.

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Who is @horse_js?

A data science project to uncover the true identity of the notorious JavaScript parody account.

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What if we could verify npm packages?

Reproducible steps for identifying unwanted and malicious code in your dependencies.

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JavaScript iterator patterns

In this article we will explore different ways to create iterators and iterable values in Javascript, specifically functions, iterators, iterables and generators.

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Common API mistakes and how to avoid them

A collection of 8 common mistakes that you might do while building your next API in Node.js and how to avoid them.

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Using Story Structure For Better Engagement

From campfires to books to advertisements to film, stories have a power over us that no other human invention can wield. This article will explain you the basic principles to propose your narrative by using well know storytelling techniques. Warning: your next slides presentation or technical article might become more exciting!

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Book of the week

Mastering Regular Expressions

                                        by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl

Regular expressions are an extremely powerful tool for manipulating text and data. They are now standard features in a wide range of languages and popular tools, including Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, VB.NET and C# (and any language using the .NET Framework), PHP, and MySQL.If you don't use regular expressions yet, you will discover in this book a whole new world of mastery over your data. If you already use them, you'll appreciate this book's unprecedented detail and breadth of coverage.

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