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Nodejs Quick Tips #1

Creating Multiple Files

Unfortunately, the fs.writeFile does not accept an array for creating a bunch of files at once. To solve this problem, put all files in an array and loop through them to create the files.

Categories: #JavaScript
Tags: #NodeJs
Private Instance Method Variables

Instances Methods and Their Personal State

This post is for intended for JavaScript (not Java).

One may put instance method variables within an instance method to provide encapsulation, but what do you do when you want to maintain a private state for each instance method on each instance method execution?

Categories: #JavaScript
Readable-stream

Streaming Consistency

Since Node's streaming Api is still changing and is in 'unstable' category, writing a npm module using streams may cause some unexpected behaviors on older versions of Node. To ensure that streams are compatible with older versions of Node, a drop-in replacement for stream is available called 'readable-stream'.

Categories: #JavaScript
Tags: #NodeJs
Streaming Lines

Line by Line

There are many streaming modules on npm to read lines from text files, but many are inaccurate and slow. Inaccurate means that there is a failure to read many lines and slow means that files with a lot of text per line will cause the modules to crawl.

Categories: #JavaScript
Tags: #NodeJs