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Why aren't Node.js package managers interoperable?

This post was inspired by this Twitter conversation. The tweet asserts: I should be able to use pnpm while my teammates use yarn or npm, without iss...

#node.js #dependency management

Node.js error-handling gotcha: synchronous errors from an asynchronous function

One thing to look out for in Node.js: functions that may throw an error either synchronously or asynchronously (which, technically, is any function t...

#node.js #error handling

A practical tracing journey with OpenTelemetry on Node.js

I've talked a good deal about observability, tracing and instrumentation in the past. Recently, I decided to try out some new things in those areas, ...

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Monkey-patching the Express router

I maintain Scribe, a library for automatically generating your HTTP API documentation from your codebase. When you run the generate command, Scribe f...

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Promises don't hold up the event loop

A fun thing I came across recently: a pending promise, by itself, won't stop a Node.js script from exiting. Let's say we have a script that ends with...

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A shallow dive into auto-instrumenting Node.js applications with Elastic APM

I don't work for Elastic (yet😄), but I'm a big fan of their products. In fact:...

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Helpful Node.js testing utilities

This is not a post about Node.js' testing frameworks, assertion libraries or mocking libraries like J...

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