You know that feeling of disapointment when you get an error and the stack trace just abruptly ends and you know for a fact it should be much longer, and…

As you web application grows, there comes a time when you will want to have scheduled jobs. The easiest thing is of course go the cron route. However, maintaining and updating it…

Everybody appreciates the distance information between two locations in web mapping services like Google Maps, right? Do you have a similar use case within your application but want to avoid the…

Sentiment analysis is one of those things you don’t get to do very often, as cool as it sounds. It’s one of those things I always wanted to do but…

There are plenty of different runtime environments in JavaScript-land. Whereas this is a good thing there are also situations where the fragmentation is hindrance. Situations in which your application has…

Lets continue building out awesome CLI (command line interface) tool. Previously we have discussed how to take in command line arguments, output tabular data and display progress of long running tasks. Prompting a user…

StrongLoop makes it easy to develop APIs in Node, plus get DevOps capabilities like monitoring, debugging and clustering. Handling errors in async flow In the previous article we’ve talked about managing async flow and escaping the callback hell….

Lets talk about long running CLI (command line interface) applications. When you have a finite process that is expected to take some time, the best thing to do is to…

shmock (GitHub: xetorthio/shmock, License: MIT) is a module by Jonathan Leibiusky provides a super nice API, like the one of superagent but it creates a real http server (using express). The nice thing about this is that you…