node is can be a good idea. But people don't take JavaScript programming seriously. Most libraries objectively suck.
Google, authors of V8 and #1 subject matter experts on V8, have published coding standard. Does someone use it in the node community? No. Everyone loves "standard", a lousy standard that allows everyone put a badge on their github page while still having a code base full of vomit.
JSDoc. A great solution for documentation. You would expect major libraries to adopt it, or a similar thing. But again, no. Major libraries such as busboy do not use them. The documentation resembles a napkin.
Then everything else: input validation, error handling, consistency... etc. Take "request" for instance, one of the most widely used libraries. The state machine it implements is inconsistent. You abort a request and get a timeout, you can abort a request without starting it and get an exception. Issues that will drive you insane while debugging.
Express, one of the most widely used web frameworks on node.js. Do this on a route: setTimeout(function(){ throw new Error(); });. Great, now you have broken out of the error handling context. Great job.
Node libraries suck all across the board. It's the PHP of the 21st century. There are exceptions, like: lodash, bluebird, and others.
Google, authors of V8 and #1 subject matter experts on V8, have published coding standard. Does someone use it in the node community? No. Everyone loves "standard", a lousy standard that allows everyone put a badge on their github page while still having a code base full of vomit.
JSDoc. A great solution for documentation. You would expect major libraries to adopt it, or a similar thing. But again, no. Major libraries such as busboy do not use them. The documentation resembles a napkin.
Then everything else: input validation, error handling, consistency... etc. Take "request" for instance, one of the most widely used libraries. The state machine it implements is inconsistent. You abort a request and get a timeout, you can abort a request without starting it and get an exception. Issues that will drive you insane while debugging.
Express, one of the most widely used web frameworks on node.js. Do this on a route: setTimeout(function(){ throw new Error(); });. Great, now you have broken out of the error handling context. Great job.
Node libraries suck all across the board. It's the PHP of the 21st century. There are exceptions, like: lodash, bluebird, and others.