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Minimum Viable Async with Node 6

With the release of Node 6.0.0, the surface of code that needs transpilation to use ES6 features has been reduced very dramatically.

This is what my current workflow looks like to set up a minimalistic and fast microservice using micro and async + await.

The promise

@staltz
staltz / introrx.md
Last active July 25, 2024 16:52
The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing
@tsiege
tsiege / The Technical Interview Cheat Sheet.md
Last active July 20, 2024 16:44
This is my technical interview cheat sheet. Feel free to fork it or do whatever you want with it. PLEASE let me know if there are any errors or if anything crucial is missing. I will add more links soon.

ANNOUNCEMENT

I have moved this over to the Tech Interview Cheat Sheet Repo and has been expanded and even has code challenges you can run and practice against!






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@branneman
branneman / better-nodejs-require-paths.md
Last active June 29, 2024 16:00
Better local require() paths for Node.js

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions

@ndarville
ndarville / business-models.md
Last active January 13, 2024 17:27
Business models based on the compiled list at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647. I find the link very hard to browse, so I made a simple version in Markdown instead.

Business Models

Advertising

Models Examples
Display ads Yahoo!
Search ads Google
@gavinandresen
gavinandresen / btcpayments.rst
Last active May 28, 2024 17:41
Bitcoin Payment Messages

SEE BIP 70

See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0070 for the latest version of this document; I'll keep this document so the process of discussion/revision isn't lost.

Bitcoin Payment Messages

This document proposes protocol buffer-based formats for a simple payment protocol between a customer's bitcoin client software and a merchant.

@revolunet
revolunet / lzw_encoder.js
Created February 25, 2011 14:55
LZW javascript compress/decompress
// LZW-compress a string
function lzw_encode(s) {
var dict = {};
var data = (s + "").split("");
var out = [];
var currChar;
var phrase = data[0];
var code = 256;
for (var i=1; i<data.length; i++) {
currChar=data[i];
@isaacs
isaacs / comma-first-var.js
Created April 6, 2010 19:24
A better coding convention for lists and object literals in JavaScript
// See comments below.
// This code sample and justification brought to you by
// Isaac Z. Schlueter, aka isaacs
// standard style
var a = "ape",
b = "bat",
c = "cat",
d = "dog",