A version/environment manager is essential if you work with different Node.js versions—but which should you use? Ayooluwa Isaiah investigates the competing options.

The Data Access Layer (DAL) is the most critical part of any application. This is where the code integrates with an external source of truth like a database. In this take, we'll show you how to build a DAL that talks to Postgres via Node. Then we'll go into best practices like Clean Architecture and what this means in practical terms. Ready? Let’s go! First, a quick note about the code: The code will have modern niceties like TypeScript, unit tests, and will tackle potential scalability issues.

Web applications are necessary to enhance the visibility of a business organization and help them achieve better ROI. Therefore, firms need to choose the right web development language to get the best results. Node.js has emerged as a leading programming language for developing web applications. But in hindsight, there are some complications that developers face with Node.js app maintenance.

At times, Node.js can feel like a black box. Shifting to an asynchronous programming model changes how developers are required to handle and interpret existing data. There are many solutions out there to help the users gain more visibility; however, it has been proved that all those solutions out there to capture such critical information come with a high toll on the performance of every application implementing them.

Sometimes an application needs more than Node.js to develop and bootstrap itself. Maybe the project needs some automation from a different programming language than JavaScript; even in that scenario, Node.js can run those required tasks; with that, your whole application could be easier to maintain and won’t have a lot of technologies mixed in the same project.

The Node.js team announced the release of version 18 on April 19. Node.js 18 has some significant new features that Node developers should be aware of. In this article, we'll look at some of the major highlights from this release.

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When we create software, we rarely do it without errors. API creation isn’t exempt from this fact, so sooner or later we’ll need to debug it. In JavaScript, the first stop for a debugging task is often logging to the console, but using a debugger can give us a more integrated experience. Node js is a cross platform and open source JavaScript runtime environment that allows the JavaScript to be run on the server-side.

Cloud deployments have gotten more complicated over the years. That’s on them, but it’s not necessarily to a fault – there’s just so much more you can do now than in the past. That blossoming in capabilities really owes itself to each new service getting easier over time. AWS, Google, and Azure started offering to relieve the burden of on-premises computing infrastructure.

The capacity to reuse and build upon the foundations of other people is one of the most powerful aspects of software development. The code-sharing has helped in the rapid advancement of software. This process of code sharing in Node.js is eased via module.exports or exports, which can be used both within individual projects and in external npm dependencies. Modules are code structure building elements that help Node.js developers better structure, reuse, and distribute code.