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What’s new in the Sails Node.js framework

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Node.js roadmap: What’s next for the JavaScript runtime

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Traffic-shaping WebSockets using Node.js and Redis

How to protect your WebSocket-enabled application against traffic spikes by using Redis as a real-time request counter

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What’s new in Node.js 8 and Node.js 9

Node.js 8 is tapped for long-term support, while Node.js 9 becomes the new current release line

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Microsoft adds multithreading to Node.js for compute-heavy apps

The Napa.js runtime is in development to bring C++-like performance to Node.js

Java vs. Node.js: An epic battle for developer mindshare

Node.js vs. Java: An epic battle for developer mind share

Here’s how the enterprise stalwart and JavaScript upstart stack up in a battle for the server room

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Node.js tutorial: Get started with Node.js

How to install and use Node.js, the NPM package manager, and Node.js modules and frameworks to build powerful web servers

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CoffeeScript 2 arrives with JavaScript syntax improvements

Upgrades should require 'little or no refactoring' for most projects, but there are some breaking changes

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Yarn 1.0 simplifies JavaScript dependency management

Yarn's new Workspaces feature promises easier code sharing across projects without dependency synchronization issues

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MEAN vs. LAMP for your next programming project

LAMP diehards take note: The flexible simplicity of MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, and Node.js is no joke

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The complete guide to Node.js frameworks

A quick tour of the best MVC frameworks, REST API frameworks, full-stack frameworks, and other handy libraries for Node.js

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Node.js forks again, this time over a political dispute

A dispute involving a technical committee member leads to the Ayo,js fork, whose directions and goals remain vague

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Build an app with Flask and Oracle Mobile Cloud Service

A step-by-step guide to defining an API with Flask and deploying to Oracle’s mobile back end as a service

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Why serverless was made for mobile development

Building mobile apps becomes infinitely simpler when we get the antiquated server stack out of the way

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New Node.js API will shield modules from JavaScript engine changes

N-API should break the dependency on Google’s V8 engine and help developers avoid recompilation for new versions and engines

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New project taps Node.js for microservices API gateway

LunchBadger's Express Gateway is an 'out of the box' API gateway for microservices built on the Express framework for Node.js

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Architect has a better blueprint for AWS Lambda deployments

Project handles configuration and provisioning of Lambda functions and related AWS services with a plain-text manifest file

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What is Node.js? The JavaScript runtime explained

Node.js is a lean, fast, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that is useful for both servers and desktop applications

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7 keys to structuring your Node.js app

Keep these considerations in mind to make your Node.js app easy to debug, easy to maintain, and easy to scale

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Node.js 8 brings sanity to native module dependencies

In addition to runtime, URL parsing, and buffer improvements, the new release promises to preserve native module dependencies across upgrades

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