In this final issue of the year, we look back at the most popular Node links of 2016. We hope you have a happy holiday season and we'll see you in 2017 :-)
Tierney Coren
Using npm as effectively as possible can be difficult. This list of 11 bite-size tricks to help speed up development was very popular this year.
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David Gilbertson
David knows Node well, but upon reading through Node’s documentation some more, a variety of interesting techniques jumped out at him.
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Smashing Magazine
An incredibly in-depth tutorial, complete with code, diagrams, and insights, into the process behind creating an isomorphic/universal React app using React and Express.
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Gergely Nemeth
Node 6.0 was a major release of 2016, but what did that mean for developers?
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Igor Soarez
In a 20 minute talk, Igor Soarez looked at how an influx of developers from various cultures has lead to anti-patterns emerging in Node code.
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Azat Mardan
Protocol Buffers (protobuf) provide an interesting alternative to JSON. They’re denser and provide data schemas for enforcement of structure.
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Realm
Realm is an object database where you simply work with objects as you’re used to and they’re persisted directly.
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Gergely Nemeth
Gergely Nemeth covered things like semantic versioning, databases, dependencies, build systems and error handling.
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The Register
A big Node story from 2016 that many will want to forget but which had lasting repurcussions.
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Jobs
In Brief
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