Node.js/Javascript Stack

README.md

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
• nodemailer: sending email (e.g. via Amazon SES plugin)

Tests/dev:

• mocha: test runner
• supertest: API/web tests
• should: easier/better assertions, including simple promise support
• eslint: forget style, just try to find errors -- see my config (+ eslint-plugin-lodash-fp)

Both node.js and front-end

(but size many make it prohibitive on front-end)

• bluebird: promises with extra features (promisify/spread/join/props/tap/map)
• lodash/fp FP-guide: functional version of array/object manipulation
• zxcvbn: determine password strength
• momentjs: date manipulation

Front-end:

• bower: for packaging/install of deps (you can just use NPM but haven't looked for a simple way)
• riotjs: the front-end framework -- works with jquery
• js-cookie: save cookies
• bootstrap: basic styling
• jquery.payment: credit card validation before submission (via stripe)
• jquery.rest: easy/simple REST queries (tiny package)
• sweetalert2: popups for info/prompts
• intl-tel-input: phone inputs, with country flags
• jQuery: still useful

NOTE: For front-end, I stay away from loading a big promise library, avoid web-pack, transpilation with babel, etc. I avoided the complexity of any build system because there seemed to be few benefits. However, that means no promises since MSIE has no promise support (you can include a polyfill however).

LICENSE: (Public Domain) CC0 1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

sample-eslintrc.json

//LICENSE: CC0 1.0 Universal

{
    "env": {
        "es6": true,
        "node": true,
        "mocha": true
    },
    "plugins": ["lodash-fp"],
    "rules": {
        "no-undef": 1,
        "no-unused-vars": ["warn", { "varsIgnorePattern": "should" }],
        "no-cond-assign": "error",
        "no-shadow": "error",
        "no-dupe-args": "error",
        "no-unsafe-finally": "error",
        "complexity": ["warn", 20],
        "max-depth": ["warn", 3],
        "no-use-before-define": [
            "error",
            "nofunc"
            ],
        "no-lonely-if": "error",
        "no-dupe-keys": "error",
        "no-func-assign": "error",
        "quotes": ["warn", "single", {"avoidEscape": true}],
        //"lodash-fp/consistent-compose": "off",
        "lodash-fp/consistent-name": ["error", "fp"],
        "lodash-fp/no-argumentless-calls": "warn",
        //"lodash-fp/no-chain": "error", //see https://medium.com/making-internets/why-using-chain-is-a-mistake-9bc1f80d51ba#.rv037oiec use flow()
        "lodash-fp/no-extraneous-args": "error",
        "lodash-fp/no-extraneous-function-wrapping": "warn",
        "lodash-fp/no-extraneous-iteratee-args": "error",//YEY!! see docs here: https://github.com/lodash/lodash/wiki/FP-Guide
        //"lodash-fp/no-for-each": "warn",//let's see this
        "lodash-fp/no-single-composition": "error",
        "lodash-fp/no-submodule-destructuring": "error",
        "lodash-fp/no-unused-result": "error",
        "lodash-fp/no-partial-of-curried": "error",
        "lodash-fp/prefer-compact": "error",
        //"lodash-fp/prefer-composition-grouping": "error", //I don't understand it
        //"lodash-fp/prefer-constant": ["error", {"arrowFunctions": false}],
        "lodash-fp/prefer-flat-map": "error",
        "lodash-fp/prefer-get": "error",
        "lodash-fp/prefer-identity": ["error", {"arrowFunctions": false}],
        "lodash-fp/preferred-alias": ["error", {"overrides": ["toString"]}],
        "lodash-fp/use-fp": "error"

        /*"lodash/prop-shorthand": "warn", //@TODO: lodash plugin, never triggers?
        "lodash/matches-prop-shorthand": "warn",
        "lodash/matches-shorthand": "warn",
        "lodash/prefer-includes": "warn"*/

    }
}