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Extensive use of global variables in js codebase?
I've been tasked with refactoring/simplifying the architecture of a (relatively) large node.js codebase and it makes ample use of global variables. I don't have much experience with javascript so just ...
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How should I store time stamps so that it's easily accessible and won't take too much space
tldr at the bottom if you don't want to read all this! :)
First of all the db I'm using is MongoDB! So I've been building a fun project and all has been well but I hit a small problem. Effectively, ...
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Performant way for archiving image files in NodeJS on each user requests
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Images are uploaded to the server once in a while. Users send an API request for downloading all of those images that were uploaded to the server (Images reside in the server itself). ...
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architecture - relation of scraper and orm classes
Consider the following application structure.
The scraper class extracts the necessary information from a page, and I want to save it to the DB.
The ORM class is a wrapper around sequelize.js. It ...
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Microservices Architecture separating backend and front end
We are trying to move (slowly) into Microservices architecture from our current monolithic based architecture. I've done my research on microservices architecture and would like to get some feedback ...
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I'm building an app with Node, Express, and MongoDB. Is AngularJS necessary?
Node, Express, and MongoDB are really connected so I can understand why they are frequently used together. For a web app of medium complexity, can I get away with only using HTML/CSS and EJS for the ...
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Different type of MEAN Stack Architectures
I am reading a book (Getting MEAN by Simon Holmes) about MEAN Stack which talks about different architectures that can be used while developing an app in MEAN Stack and I got a little confused with ...
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Methods of separating front and back-end with full stack javascript?
Suppose I have a front-end which is mostly a single-page application written using angular, grunt, and bower. And suppose I have a backend, which is mostly just a REST API sitting on top of an ORM, ...
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Synchronous architecture with asynchronous repository
In order to keep clean architecture of my node.js microservice I have controllers, services and e.g. repositories.
I want a synchronous data flow: controller -> service -> repository -> service -> ...
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Call the database every time, or create an object in memory, and if so, how and how often to update?
I'm creating an app in javascript/nodejs and using neo4j as database.
Let's say I have an entity User in my database. It has a bunch of properties, like boxes_collected and places_visited, which keep ...
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Please explain object versioning in the nodejs module system
This question is about the persistance of variables across different modules in nodejs when they don't directly "require" each other, but do "require" a common ancestor.
It is also the generalised ...
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Idiomatic Javascript code architecture
I am writing a node.js application which I am breaking down into modules, the issue is I am not sure how to organise my code in an idiomatic Javascript way.
Currently each of my modules exposes a set ...
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Writing a game engine using javascript
..by this I mean a logic handler for a chess game. Basically validating a move and checking if somebody has won.
Now ignore the complexity of the game(if you can..) I'd like some sort of psuedo code ...
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