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We are planning on building a Node.js service. Here's our evaluation of the current ORM landscape:

Last updated: May 2 2016

• Objection.js
  • http://vincit.github.io/objection.js/#introduction
  • Bad: API is Promise based and bulky. This means people can forget to have an error handler due to not being error first
    • http://vincit.github.io/objection.js/#getting-started
  • Good: Uses JSON schema for validation; this means content should be relatively reusable between server/browser
• http://vincit.github.io/objection.js/#validation

twolfson

We are building a Node.js service which will need asynchronous support for tasks like sending emails. Here's our evaluation:

• kue
  • https://github.com/Automattic/kue
  • Good: Seems well documented
  • Good: Supports retries and backoff
  • Good: Uses Redis so 1 less thing to maintain
  • Bad: Only supports Redis so have to wary of key eviction at later stages of growth
  • Bad: Slow to resolve issues
• http://isitmaintained.com/project/Automattic/kue

twolfson

We have been considering how to best handle internal monitoring (i.e. internal stats like disk space, CPU utilization). Here's our current set of solutions:

References:

• https://www.pagerduty.com/integrations/ (Infrastructure monitoring)
• http://stackshare.io/performance-monitoring

Top picks:

• Stackdriver - Free with alerting

twolfson

We are already quite familiar with analytics but here's our course of reasoning for this site setup.

References:

• http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/web-analytics-software-comparison1.jpg

Notes:

• Google Analytics
• Free forever

twolfson

We are adding in notifications to our website. Here's our rundown:

• humane.js
  • http://wavded.github.io/humane-js/
  • Doesn't support message stacking
  • Supports multiple colors
  • Doesn't have "x to close" built into it?
• Notifier.js
  • http://rlemon.github.io/Notifier.js/
• Has message stacking