Arjun Mayilvaganan arjunmayilvaganan

What is your folder-structure preference for a large-scale Node.js project?

0: Starting from Rails

This is the reference point. All the other options are based off this.

|-- app
|   |-- controllers
|   |   |-- admin

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

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System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
- Who is going to use it?
- How are they going to use it?

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

Effective Engineer - Notes

By Edmond Lau
Highly Recommended 👍
http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

	import re
	import subprocess
	from urllib2 import urlopen

	url = 'http://videolectures.net/ecmlpkdd08_carlson_bief/'

	re_flv = re.compile(r'(flv:[\w/]+)')
	html = urlopen(url).read()
	m = re.search(re_flv, html)
	if m:

	// # Mocha Guide to Testing
	// Objective is to explain describe(), it(), and before()/etc hooks

	// 1. `describe()` is merely for grouping, which you can nest as deep
	// 2. `it()` is a test case
	// 3. `before()`, `beforeEach()`, `after()`, `afterEach()` are hooks to run
	// before/after first/each it() or describe().
	//
	// Which means, `before()` is run before first it()/describe()

	# Compiled source #
	###################
	*.com
	*.class
	*.dll
	*.exe
	*.o
	*.so

	# Packages #

	var Backbone = require('backbone');

	// Flash ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

	// The flash is a way for one controller to pass a small amount of information to the next
	// controller, through a navigation event.
	//
	// The flash holds arbitrary parameters, and is cleared by the router after each navigation event.
	var flash = exports.flash = {
	params: {},

	package main

	import (
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"os/exec"
	"syscall"
	)

	func main() {