9 Anti-patterns for Node js Teams
summary
PayPal claims a 2013 migration to Node with 35 apps live and about 500,000 npm installs per day on internal servers while training roughly 400 Java/C++ engineers. Concrete anti‑patterns: dragging Java patterns into JS, rebuilding monoliths instead of publishing small NPM modules (internal registry Kaplow), misusing promises and throwing every error instead of passing Error objects, depending on git URLs, sloppy callbacks, and using Node for SSL termination instead of nginx; prefer letting processes die and restart.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:30Educating Teams
- 5:05Leave Your Baggage Behind
- 7:50Understand JavaScript
- 9:30Play with it
- 9:55Handling errors
- 12:05Wrapping in promises
- 15:45Async
- 17:55No do everything
- 19:45Embrace the ecosystem
