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Using Next Generation Node

Features

ES6 (ES2015)

🚩 TODO Explain some ES6 language features

ES7 (ES2016)

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Promisifying A Callback-based Function In Node 5

Node 5 is awesome! <3 By default, it comes with lots of ES6 features.

Among them are, for example, arrow functions. And there's the spread operator which, in combination with the arguments object, makes writing a promisify() function beautifully simple:

function promisify (foo) {
 return function () {

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A Simple Node.js File Server for Bluemix with Superstatic by Firebase

Step 1: Install Superstatic

npm install superstatic

Step 2: Create File Server

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Building A Simple Countdown Clock

Live example: http://codepen.io/abk955/pen/YwQmMJ

1. Creating the clock structure (in Jade)

• The countdown clock is supposed to display seconds, minutes, hours and days.

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An Easier Way to Enforce Required Parameters in ES6

Expands on Handling required parameters in ECMAScript 6 by Axel Rauschmayer.

The idea (which is credited to Allen Wirfs-Brock) is, in essence, to use default parameter values to call a function which throws an Error if the parameter is missing:

const throwIfMissing () => { throw new Error('Missing parameter') }

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#!/usr/bin/env node

/* Usage: node file-gen [mb]
 *
 * Example: Generate a 1 GB file
 * $ node file-gen 1024
 * time: 9163.383ms
 */

const fs = require('fs')

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let 
    BaseUrl         = "https://fake-odata-api.com/v1/Entities?",
    Token           = "F4K3-T0K3N-D0NT-U5E-L0L",
    EntitiesPerPage = 1000,
 
    GetJson = (Url) =>
        let Options = [Headers=[ #"Authorization" = "Bearer " & Token ]],
            RawData = Web.Contents(Url, Options),
            Json    = Json.Document(RawData)
        in  Json,

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@ECHO off

:: delete all upgrade logs
:: >nul 2>&1 = drop stdout and stderr output
DEL UpgradeLog*.htm >nul 2>&1

:: loop over all backup directories
FOR /d %%G IN (Backup*) DO (
  :: /s = remove all sub directories, too
  :: /q = remove quietly, without confirmation

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@ECHO off

SET downloadUrl=https://api.github.com/users/marktiedemann
SET tempFile=%cd%\.%random%-tmp

BITSADMIN /transfer /download %downloadUrl% %tempFile% >nul
TYPE %tempFile%
DEL %tempFile%

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const http = require('http')
const url = require('url')

const apiPort = 3000
const proxyPort = 3001

const apiResStatus = 200
const apiResBody = `"Hi, I'm the API!"`

const clientReqMethod = 'GET'