That is true, and node's official advice in this regard is bad. It comes from previous bad designs of error handling and leaking resources (file descriptors mos

That is true, and node's official advice in this regard is bad. It comes from previous bad designs of error handling and leaking resources (file descriptors mostly) caused by domains. However, modern node code typically uses promises and you can use slightly more old-fashioned methods of managing resources: https://stackoverflow.com/a/19540907/110271 https://stackoverflow.com/a/19540907/110271 You can go a step further and fully isolate "crash-assuming" code from "non-crash-assuming" (promise based code): https://gist.github.com/spion/ed8deb7a3b4add0a6d727dc78fe635d8 https://gist.github.com/spion/ed8deb7a3b4add0a6d727dc78fe635...