I would say since scripts are often concatenated and minified/compressed/sent together there’s a chance the last guy had something like: return { ‘var’:’value’ } at the end of the last script without a ; on the end. If you have a ; at the start on yours, it’s safe, example: return { ‘var’:’value’ } ;(function( … Read more
This is misunderstanding of the definition of web server — it should only be used to “talk” with clients. Heavy load tasks should be delegated to standalone programs (that of course can be also written in JS). You’d probably say that it is dirty, but I assure you that a web server process stuck in … Read more
If you are looking for an authentication framework for Connect or Express, Passport is worth investigating: https://github.com/jaredhanson/passport (Disclosure: I’m the developer of Passport) I developed Passport after investigating both connect-auth and everyauth. While they are both great modules, they didn’t suit my needs. I wanted something that was more light-weight and unobtrusive. Passport is broken … Read more
You need to manually create a symlink /usr/bin/node. Shortcut for bash compatible shells: sudo ln -s `which nodejs` /usr/bin/node Or if you use non-standard shells, just hardcode the path you find with which nodejs: sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node Later edit I found this explanation in the link you posted There is a naming conflict … Read more
Update: Joyent now has their own guide. The following information is more of a summary: Safely “throwing” errors Ideally we’d like to avoid uncaught errors as much as possible, as such, instead of literally throwing the error, we can instead safely “throw” the error using one of the following methods depending on our code architecture: … Read more