Recently, four pillars of the JavaScript community (James Snell, Natalia Venditto, Michael Dawson & Matteo Collina) teamed up to create a resource that lays out nine principles for doing Node.js right in enterprise environments. On this episode, Natalia & Matteo join Jerod to discuss all nine.
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Notes & Links
Chapters
| Chapter Number | Chapter Start Time | Chapter Title | Chapter Duration |
| 1 | 00:00 | It's party time, y'all | 00:39 |
| 2 | 00:39 | Sponsor: Notion | 01:28 |
| 3 | 02:07 | Hello party people | 01:36 |
| 4 | 03:43 | How it came together | 03:09 |
| 5 | 06:52 | The nine pillars | 01:31 |
| 6 | 08:24 | 5: Avoid dependency creep | 06:15 |
| 7 | 14:38 | 6: De-risk your dependencies | 04:06 |
| 8 | 18:44 | Sponsor: WorkOS | 02:50 |
| 9 | 21:34 | 7: Avoid globals | 08:34 |
| 10 | 30:09 | 8: Handle errors, log well | 04:37 |
| 11 | 34:46 | 9: Use API specs, generate clients | 05:37 |
| 12 | 40:23 | Sponsor: Jam.dev | 01:31 |
| 13 | 41:55 | 1: Do not block the event loop | 03:53 |
| 14 | 45:47 | 2: Monitor Node-specific metrics | 04:09 |
| 15 | 49:56 | 3: Use Node LTS | 04:36 |
| 16 | 54:32 | 4: Automate testing, code review, conformance | 02:32 |
| 17 | 57:04 | Bonus pillars | 03:09 |
| 18 | 1:00:14 | Closing time | 02:54 |
| 19 | 1:03:08 | Next up on the pod (merch!) | 01:00 |