Node.js is an event based, asynchronous I/O framework that uses Google's V8 JavaScript engine. Node.js is commonly used for heavy client-server JavaScript applications.
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NodeJS socket for handling errors
It's the first time managing Mongoose by socket.io and I'm wondering if this could be a good way:
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Node.js application file structure [on hold]
Here is one of my node projects file structure.
I'd like to find out the best structure for such kind of server services (API). For example mongoose models stored in ...
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NodeJS authentication function rewrite with promises
I will post both of the modules, some of the code in them may be "irrelevant" for the main concern here, which is Security.prototype.authenticate(). Nevertheless, comments are welcome about all of the ...
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Consuming an API with authentication
I have created a library which consumes the Imgur API.
This is the main file.
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Handling callbacks when doing async programming and dealing with scope
I'm using HapiJS to create a little backend for my side-project. In grabbing RSS feeds, I want to loop through my list of website URLs, grab the correct RSS links in the ...
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Command line utility to output modified Markdown
What this command line utility does is to take a text file and update the content a bit before turning it into Markdown. For example, the first for loop searches all the straight quotes and replace ...
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Multiplayer Tic Tac Toe with Socket.io [closed]
I am trying to learn Socket.io and develop a multiplayer tic tac toe game. Right now, I have developed a game that plays well when hosted locally, but I cannot seem to transmit game moves between the ...
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SQL Server to MongoDB Template
Looking for feedback on a set of templates I've just created. I'm planning on converting them to Yeoman but want to make sure they're ready for prime time before doing so. They are currently in ...
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Creating an async consumable object in Node
Background
I have a situation where I have fixed number of objects with their own routines that would need to be called with the same initial message.
To accomplish this, I have a Factory that ...
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Input a web page with poker events, output a gcal compatible CSV file
This script takes input from poker tournament pages at pokeratlas dot com, and outputs a CSV file that I can import to Google Calendar, listing each of the tournament events, start time, location, and ...
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Sign-up controller and service
I'm programing server side node for a huge project. And I'm thinking my brains out about the best programming pattern that will be suitable for fast modification and changes.
Tell me what you think ...
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Rewriting authentication controller using promises
I am in the process of refactoring some complex code that uses callbacks to instead use promises. I am trying to figure out if my proposed approaches make sense.
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Minimax for Tic-Tac-Toe
I have written AI for Tic-Tac-Toe using Negamax in JavaScript. The Negamax object is translated from an implementation written in Python. The code runs on a Node.js server and the player interacts ...
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Mixing assignment and expressions- good or bad? [closed]
As far as mixing assignment and expressions.... is it better to do or not to do? For cleaner code and readability.
mixing:
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To-do app in node.js
I get the feeling this code for a to-do app is not secure, and as I am just a beginner, I don't know about my coding style, is it conventional/elegant?
Please don't hesitate to criticize me.
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Conditional callback for asynchronous file copy
I'm trying to figure out the most elegant solution to do the following asynchronously using JavaScript (specifically node):
Given a destination file name, check if it is a directory
If it is a ...
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Pagination handlebars helper
I've build a handlebars helper that takes n total pages and currentPage and returns the HTML for the page number links, skipping ...
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Optimization for better response time to use in analytics application
We are trying to use NodeJS for analytics. The following code gets the parameter from a URL and dumps it into a flat file. Is there any way to optimize it to get better response time?
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Handling with the 'error' parameter inside a callback function in node.js
I have multiple controllers and every controller has this error handler:
if (error) {
res.render('error', {
error: error
});
}
Sometimes I have more ...
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Using app.use only in routes that start with /admin
I have several routes, and I need Facebook authentication only in the routes that start with /admin:
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Code enhancement for existing npm package
I am trying to improve the code in the npm package. I have looked through the code but don't have any ideas how to write proper code.
GitHub
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Concise HTTP server
Here's my code for a consise node.js HTTP server.
It does work as intended, but I'd like to ask if there's any glitch or to be improved.
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Serial port for Node.js
I am trying to create a class for serial port using Node.js, but I want to know if there is a better way to write my data class code.
In my sample code below, in the ...
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Creating chat commands properly with Socket.IO
I am developing a chat program (mountreus-chat and GitHub) in Node.js using Socket.io however my code looks awful. I'm starting to use commands and now it's even worse.
Here's a code snippet (you can ...
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DRY code for sending email with SendGrid
I have this code inside a post route:
The first one is to alert me when a user registers on my site:
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Mocha + should.js, testing for node
I'm new to the world of BDD, but I'd like to get a grip of it as soon as possible. It's one of my first tests:
Fluent.js
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Node.js log parser for mongoDB
I have developed a log parser, the goal is to take whatever log type I can, and convert them in a mongoDB collection.
I think I've done a pretty good job at reading whatever type of log are trhown at ...
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Removing properties and elements set to null in JavaScript
I'm looking for a review of the following code.
Is there a better way to remove all properties that evaluate to truthy for a given function?
Is there a better way to prevent a stack overflow in the ...
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Using EJS Partial for commonly used <input> layout
I have a lot of <input> elements in my single page app that share a similar style for validation. To decrease the amount of code repeated (following DRY ...
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Secure and optimize Mongoose model component
Please help in deciding if this method for a Mongoose model component for user authentication can be made more secure and optimized, for efficiency and platform independence.
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Log my external IP address using NodeJS
I've been learning NodeJS recently, and have a small program to get the external IP address on my home network from fugal.net, compare it to the previous IP address, and if there is a change update ...
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Arranging this socket namespace
Finally I managed to work with socket.io namespace stuff which I'm using for building a chat module. Here employees of multiple organizations can join & make chat with other employees of the ...
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Simple Linked Hash Map in JS (node/browser)
I needed a simple data structure to cache the most recent few directory contents for this project I was working on. I thought a Linked Hash Map would be the right approach since we will cache only one ...
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Too many conditions in the method
I am new to node.js and I am just wondering what you think about this code. For me, it seems there are too many conditions in the code. Is there any way to refactor it?
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Tag Fit: Team based mapping of wearable data
Our company is planning on doing a fitness competition.
So as the hackathon project I threw together this team based tracking service.
It measure a walk from Seattle to New York
Player can log in via ...
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Web socket server which needs to query some API and to pass chunk per chunk of data to its socket clients every M seconds
Let's say that I want to query some API which will respond with array of random numbers:
[4, ..., 17, ..., 25]
To keep things simple enough, let's say that array has always 10 elements. For ...
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hapi.js + node.js route reply with external data
My code responds to a request with data from an external site – it retrieves data from the internet that gets packaged with any response.
I am a javascript beginner and am not used to asynchronous ...
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Bitcoin, detecting deposits to the node.js server
I'm trying to detect deposits that user will made. I explained it with comment lines in below.
Can you say are there any flaw in it?
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Simple Poker Game
I'm building a simple Poker game. It is almost complete, but I want to refactor it early.
To calculate hand strength / ranks, I use this library from NPM: poker-evaluator
For deck shuffling, I use ...
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Using an asynchronous function without directly using its callback
I hate functions and re-writing callbacks by "intercepting" them and passing the original along. This is simple: it uses an existing function, exec, and doesn't ...
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Node module for DRY CRUD endpoints
As a learning project I recently started writing a node module to generate / handle the creation of CRUD endpoints in a DRY way.
The problem I was initially wanting to solve was that in my ...
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NodeJS and Express with Promises
I'm relatively new to NodeJS and Express, and I've recently run into the pyramid of Doom while doing stuff that requires multiple steps.
I've found that promises are very promising indeed. But I ...
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JavaScript traits implementation
I wanted to step up my JS game, and move on from mostly closure based scripting, so I decided to write an application in node. I don't have much experience with prototype based programming, and I ...
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Querying MongoDB for information on a collection of books
I have this huge chunk of code. Is there any better to write this code, or am I too paranoid that I check every MongoDB query for error?
The logic is here:
Bookcollection = collection of books
Book ...
