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Learn how to implement request-scoped data in Node.js by leveraging Async Hooks and AsyncLocalStorage, covering use cases, trace ID management, code examples, and best practices for building robust, session-level isolation in backend services.
This article explores the concept of a “micro‑backend” by adapting micro‑frontend principles to server‑side applications, detailing how to use IoC, monorepo management with Lerna, and Midway’s configurable scanning to split a large Node.js codebase into independent, maintainable domain modules without changing developer workflows.
TypeScript 3.8 introduces several powerful features—including type‑only imports and exports, ECMAScript private fields, top‑level await, enhanced JSDoc modifiers, and the export‑as‑namespace syntax—each explained with code examples and guidance on avoiding common pitfalls in modern JavaScript development.
Based on the 2019 GitHub Octoverse report, JavaScript remains the most active language, but Dart’s contributor growth surged 532%, and this article explores Dart’s modern language features, isolate‑based concurrency, server‑side frameworks like shelf, and its robust tooling, highlighting its potential for backend development.
This article introduces the fundamentals of serverless architecture, explains how Docker containers and Kubernetes orchestration enable dynamic scaling, and outlines various autoscaling mechanisms and scenarios for elastic resource management in modern cloud-native applications.
The article outlines Node.js's rapid growth, its 2020 release cadence, and highlights major updates such as ECMAScript module support, WebAssembly integration, diagnostic reports, expanded internationalization, and other performance and security enhancements.
This article explains how Alibaba's Midway‑FAAS framework abstracts multiple cloud function providers into a unified, vendor‑lock‑in‑free, flexible and cost‑effective serverless architecture, detailing its standardised serverless.yml, runtime extensions, TypeScript support, and real‑world deployment experience.
This article explains why WebAssembly needs a standardized system interface, introduces the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) for portable and secure execution, and provides a step‑by‑step tutorial for compiling a C "cat" program with wasi‑sdk and running it via Node.js.
The article explains two critical npm vulnerabilities—arbitrary file access via a crafted bin field and binary planting that lets globally installed packages replace executables—detailing their impact, how they can be exploited, and urging users to upgrade promptly.
This guide explains how to capture user input synchronously in Node.js by accessing the standard input file descriptor directly, compares it with the asynchronous readline approach, and shows practical code examples for different buffer sizes and platform considerations.
