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Middleware is how Express works. Not just a feature of it -- it is the whole thing. This is the talk I give to every new hire: the five middleware types, execution order, why next() trips everyone up, async error handling, and the patterns we actually use in production.
When our team decided to migrate to TypeScript, I thought it'd take a week. It took three months. Here's the full story -- what went smoothly, what broke, how we handled strict mode, third-party types, and the build pipeline.
I've been asked about the event loop more than any other Node.js topic. Here's how I finally made sense of it -- why Node can juggle thousands of connections on one thread, and the mistakes I kept making that blocked it.
After flying blind in production one too many times, I set up Prometheus and Grafana for our Node.js services. It took some trial and error. Here's what the setup actually looks like once it's working.
Two million packages on npm and most of them are junk. Here are 12 I've actually used in production, with honest notes on why they earned a spot in our stack.