Before we start our comparison of Node.js vs Golang, let’s get our terminology right. Node.js is a runtime, or environment, for JavaScript code execution, while Golang is a programming language. However, both are used for backend development where Node.js... (more…)

Promises are well-known in the JavaScript community since they landed in Chrome 32 (Jan 2014) and in Node.js 0.12 (Feb 2015). They were… (more…)

Fawn provides the ability to carry out edits on a mongoDB database as a series of steps. If an error occurs on any of the steps, the database is returned to its initial state (its state before the transaction started). It's based on the two phase commit s... (more…)

node-docker-good-defaults - sample node app for Docker examples... (more…)

We learn how to create a Node.js microservice using the stdlb platform. This microservice enables us to retrieve the name of a city based on GPS coordinates.