Node.js

Monitoring access and visits to our Node-powered websites is a good way to improve our knowledge of the inner functioning of MongoDB text search. The problem is with analysing the collected data.

In ExpressJS we can minify CSS files on the fly without using a module.

In ExpressJS sessions can be managed easily.

When we execute Node.js from the command line we can pass arguments to the node command.

Recent versions of Node.js support the Intl.DateTimeFormat constructor for localising dates but the set of locales must be explicitly enabled.

JavaScript is loosely typed. This is fine in 90% of the cases. Let's see what may happen in the remaining 10%.

We can avoid callback hell in Node.js without breaking the Event Loop.

In Node.js UUIDs should be used wisely.

We can create image thumbnails on the fly with ExpressJS and the gm module.

Promises in Node.js require an extra attention when it comes to what happens to exception handling.