Nine pillars of great Node apps

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Recently, four pillars of the JavaScript community (James Snell, Natalia Venditto, Michael Dawson & Matteo Collina) teamed up to create a resource that lays out nine principles for doing Node.js right in enterprise environments. On this episode, Natalia & Matteo join Jerod to discuss all nine.

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Featuring:

• Natalia Venditto – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Matteo Collina – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Nine Node Pillars
• close-with-grace
• TypeSpec

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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1. It's party time, y'all (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Notion (00:00:39)

http://notion.com/jsparty

3. Hello party people (00:02:07)

4. How it came together (00:03:43)

5. The nine pillars (00:06:52)

https://www.platformatichq.com/node-principles

6. 5: Avoid dependency creep (00:08:24)

7. 6: De-risk your dependencies (00:14:38)

8. Sponsor: WorkOS (00:18:44)

https://workos.com

9. 7: Avoid globals (00:21:34)

10. 8: Handle errors, log well (00:30:09)

11. 9: Use API specs, generate clients (00:34:46)

12. Sponsor: Jam.dev (00:40:23)

https://jam.dev

13. 1: Do not block the event loop (00:41:55)

14. 2: Monitor Node-specific metrics (00:45:47)

15. 3: Use Node LTS (00:49:56)

16. 4: Automate testing, code review, conformance (00:54:32)

17. Bonus pillars (00:57:04)

18. Closing time (01:00:14)

19. Next up on the pod (merch!) (01:03:08)

https://merch.changelog.com