Software tools written in Node.js

Automating Node.js/JavaScript code quality checks with eslint

(Wed Dec 20 2017 16:00:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time))

With eslint, coders can save a lot of time (in theory) by checking code for simple (but hard to find) errors. Take a function where you typed one parameter name, and used a different name, and then your unit testing did not touch that function. You'll find that error after a customer reports a bug. With eslint such an error can be caught before shipping the code.

Yarn versus npm, what's the big deal?

(Tue Sep 19 2017 17:00:00 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)) A couple years ago Yarn came onto the Node.js scene promising to be a better npm than npm. Apparently a lot of people have taken to Yarn, given the frequency with which I see instructions to install packages using Yarn. Since npm is installed along with Node.js, and since Yarn just uses the npm package repository, I'm left wondering what all the fuss is about Yarn. If it's just doing the same thing as npm then what is its reason to exist? What advantage does Yarn have over npm? Let's take a look.