avimar

Programming Environment:

• Microsoft Visual Studio Code: build in git-support, auto-complete, TypeScript paramater lookup.
• Bitbucket for GIT: free private repo

node.js backend:

• nconf: loadable, pluggable configuration
• restify: instead of express, it's oriented for APIs
• bunyan: for logging, built in support from restify
• knex.js: SQL query builder/promises/pooling (but it's not an ORM)
• PM2: deploy and clustering

domenic

This article has been given a more permanent home on my blog. Also, since it was first written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.

You're Missing the Point of Promises

Promises are a software abstraction that makes working with asynchronous operations much more pleasant. In the most basic definition, your code will move from continuation-passing style:

getTweetsFor("domenic", function (err, results) {
 // the rest of your code goes here.