Best practices for Node developers (JS Party #139)

Node.js development began a bit like the Wild West, but over time idioms, anti-patterns, and best practices have emerged. Yoni Goldberg’s Node Best Practices repo on GitHub collects, documents, and explains the best practices for Node developers. On this episode, Yoni joins us to discuss.

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Featuring:

• Yoni Goldberg – Website, GitHub, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Node Best Practices on GitHub
• Amal’s npm unpublish blog post
• The tweet about dependabot joke
• Dominic Tarr on The Changelog
• We discuss event-stream on JS Party #54
• npm blog post on event-stream
• We discuss dependency selection on JS Party #56

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!