Configuration management - the one thing that you know should be done right, yet is so easy to just ignore and put off until later. Here is an easy way to do application configuration for cloud based node apps. lazy config management Ideally an app's conf... (more…)

Validate your request parameters using a validator middleware that can be plugged into any Nodejs/ Express application. (more…)

See nodejs/CTC#12 for discussion/background. I would say that that thread is a better place for general discussion, and I prefer it if comments here would be kept to what is directly relevant for t... (more…)

I'm not going to go into a rehash of all the details here. Our process guidelines require that in order to request that an individual be removed from the CTC an issue needs to be opened and put on ... (more…)

Yarn has been a great alternative to npm and we’ve been using it at Switchboard for quite a while. You can get a bird’s eye view of the packages that have updates available using yarn outdated. As you might expect, it will check each dependency in your pa... (more…)