I wish I did. I can say that watching a lot of Rich Hickey's talks and Gary Bernhardt's Destroy All Software screencasts have made me a better programmer in gen

I wish I did. I can say that watching a lot of Rich Hickey's talks and Gary Bernhardt's Destroy All Software screencasts have made me a better programmer in general, and that has carried over into my Node development practices. Here's a few nuggets that will help you: - Use promises instead of callbacks, specifically Q. Don't let anyone tell you the performance will hurt you - I guarantee that promise execution time is not your bottleneck. - Use event listeners for things like kicking off email notifications. - Use Mandrill for sending those emails. - Use promises. - MySQL is still good tech. - Use Sequelize to make using MySQL/Postgres not hurt. - Abstract into middleware when you can. - Bogart > Express. - Use promises. - Use dependency injection (Omni-DI is a good library for this). - Route handlers are for orchestration, not core business operations. - Avoid for loops. Prefer Array methods like forEach, map, reduce, and filter. - Use promises. I plan on doing more writing about this sort of thing when I have time.