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Node.js popularized JavaScript on the server side. From there, a large community has grown from which Adaltas is an active member.
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JS monorepos in prod 5: merging Git repositories and preserve commit history
Categories: DevOps & SRE, Node.js | Tags: Bash, DevOps, Git, GitHub, JavaScript, Packaging, GitOps, Monorepo
At Adaltas, we maintain several open-source Node.js projects organized as Git monorepos and published on NPM. We shared our experience to work with Lerna monorepos in a set of articles: Part…
May 21, 2021
Plugin architecture in JavaScript and Node.js with Plug and Play
Categories: Front End, Node.js | Tags: Asynchronous, DevOps, JavaScript, Programming, Agile, Open source, Release and features
Plug and Play helps library and application authors to introduce a plugin architecture into their code. It simplifies complex code execution with well-defined interception points, also called hooks…
By David WORMS
Aug 28, 2020
Node.js CSV version 4 - re-writing and performance
Categories: Node.js | Tags: CLI, CSV, Data Engineering, Refactoring, Release and features
Today, we release a new major version of the Node.js CSV parser project. Version 4 is a complete re-writing of the project focusing on performance. It also comes with new functionalities as well as…
By David WORMS
Nov 19, 2018
A simple connect middleware to transpile CoffeeScript files
Categories: Hack, Node.js | Tags: CoffeeScript, Tools, Node.js
This new module called connect-coffee-script is a Connect middleware used to serve JavaScript files written in CoffeeScript. This middleware is to be used by connect or any Connect compatible…
By David WORMS
Jul 4, 2014
Catch 'uncaughtException' error in your mocha test
Categories: Node.js | Tags: DevOps, JavaScript, Mocha, Unit tests
This isn’t the first time I faced this situation. Today, I finally found the time and energy to look for a solution. In your mocha test, let’s say you need to test an expected “uncaughtException…
By David WORMS
Oct 27, 2013
Node CSV version 0.2.1
Categories: Node.js | Tags: CoffeeScript, CSV, Streaming, Release and features
After the announcement of the version 0.2.0 of the Node.js CSV parser at the beginning of october, we are releasing today a new version 0.2.1. This is mostly a bug fix release with enhanced…
By David WORMS
Jul 24, 2012
Node CSV version 0.1 and future developments
Categories: Node.js | Tags: CoffeeScript, CSV, Markdown, Streaming, Release and features
The Node CSV parser has just reach version 0.1 which close the 0.0.x releases. Started almost 2 years ago, the project has received a tremendous amount of participation in the form of bug reports…
By David WORMS
Jul 21, 2012
Asynchronous array iteration in Node.js with Each
Categories: Node.js | Tags: Asynchronous, CoffeeScript, JavaScript, Release and features
Control flow in Node.js is the sort of library for which almost all the developers have created and publish their own libraries. They usually aim at reducing spaghetti codes made of deep callbacks. I…
By David WORMS
Jul 18, 2012
Node CSV version 0.2 with streaming API
Categories: Node.js | Tags: CSV, Data Engineering, Markdown, Streaming, Node.js
The Node CSV parser in its version 0.2 has just been released. This version is a major enhancement as it aligned the parser with the best Node.js practice in respect of streams. The CSV parser behave…
By David WORMS
Jul 2, 2012
Java versus JS fun, a quote from the Node.js mailing list
Categories: Node.js | Tags: Java, JavaScript, Node.js
I just read that one on the mailing list. I found it relevant enough to share it with those who did not subscribe to it: First Lothar Pfeiler: I still wonder, if it’s cool to have such a big…
By David WORMS
Feb 23, 2012
A fresh look at testing Node.js projects: Mocha, Should and Travis
Categories: DevOps & SRE, Node.js | Tags: DevOps, JavaScript, Mocha, Unit tests, CI/CD, Node.js
Today, I finally decided to spend some time around Travis. It’s been a few weeks since that little green image on top of many GitHub homepages has been buzzing me. Well, to be totally honest, this isn…
By David WORMS
Feb 19, 2012
Coffee script, how do I debug that damn js line?
Categories: Hack, Node.js | Tags: CoffeeScript, Debug, JavaScript, Node.js
Update April 12th, 2012: Pull request adding error reporting to CoffeeScript with line mapping Chances are that, if you code in CoffeeScript, you often find yourself facing a JavaScript exception…
By David WORMS
Feb 15, 2012
Announcing Mecano, a set of functions for system deployment
Categories: DevOps & SRE, Node.js | Tags: Automation, CoffeeScript, Infrastructure, JavaScript, Open source
Update July 2016, Mecano is now renamed Nikita. We are releasing Node Mecano on GitHub which gather common functions used while deploying systems. The idea was to group those functions into a…
By David WORMS
Feb 12, 2012
OS module on steroids with the SIGAR Node binding
Categories: Node.js | Tags: C++, CPU, File system, Metrics, Monitoring, Network
Today we are announcing the first release of the Node binding to the SIGAR library. Visit the project website or the source code repository on GitHub. SIGAR is a cross platform interface for gathering…
By David WORMS
Jan 11, 2012
Node HBase, a NodeJs client for Apache HBase
Categories: Big Data, Node.js | Tags: Big Data, REST, HBase, Node.js
HBase is a “column familly” database from the Hadoop ecosystem built on the model of Google BigTable. HBase can accommodate very large volumes of data (tera or peta) while maintaining high…
By David WORMS
Nov 1, 2010
Node.js, JavaScript on the server side
Categories: Front End, Node.js | Tags: HTTP, JavaScript, Server, Node.js
Waiting for the Next Big Language (NBL for Next Big Language), this is now 3 years or more since I predict to my customers a bright future for JavaScript as a programming language for server…
By David WORMS
Jun 12, 2010