node.js’s single thread default architecture prevents it from utilizing multi-cores machines. When you create a new node.js application in WebStorm for example, this is what you get: var debug = require('debug')('myApp'); var app = require('../app'); app.set('port', …

A fork of node.js with faster release cycle and open source governance. io.js v1.0.0 also marks the return of Ben Noordhuis with third most commits in node.js as a technical commitee. For those who don’t know about Ben Noordhuis’s story1. Here’s a short version: Ben Noorddhuis was a major …

Pretender is a mock server library in the style of Sinon (but built from microlibs. Because javascript) that comes with an express/sinatra style syntax for defining routes and their handlers. var server = new Pretender(function(){ this.put('/api/songs/:song_id', function(request){ return [202, …

I recently tumbled upon an error when trying to connect to SQL Server in nodejs using mssql package. Logon failed for login 'username' due to trigger execution I have no problem connecting to a dev db server of mine, probably due to I don’t have any restriction/security setup on it. I only got this when …

http://www.slideshare.net/wookieb/callbacks-promises-generators-asynchronous-javascript The problem Consider the code snippet below: var x = doSomething(); typeof x === 'undefined'; // true The second statement will not wait for the first one to complete, hence result in true in the second statement. When it …