The Art of Building Node.js Projects at Scale

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A large open-source API framework moves from dozens of separate repos into a single Lerna monorepo to manage 50+ npm packages, cut PR and CI complexity, and automate versioning and publishing; it adopts TypeScript project references to speed incremental builds and give IDE-signatures for hidden contracts; it builds an inversion-of-control container and component/extension model to support pluggable auth, connectors and async dependency injection; results: LoopBack 4 ships (v4 released) and contributor productivity and testing become measurably easier.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:17Let's run a few polls
3. 2:42A large scale Node.js project
4. 4:20LoopBack - a large scale Node.js framework
5. 5:54V4 - The next generation of LoopBack
6. 13:00TypeScript Project References
7. 15:04Plain JavaScript
8. 16:45TypeScript (LoopBack 4x)
9. 18:37See the difference
10. 21:15LoopBack 4 core - an loc container
11. 23:05(Async) dependency injection
12. 24:32Declare dependencies
13. 27:09Extensibility
14. 27:52An example of extension point/extensions
15. 28:42Connect extensions to its extension point
16. 30:35Sequence of Actions
17. 32:37Summary

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