Implement Js

Technical guidelines

• Use Promise instead of async/await for asynchronous operations

• Chain promises sequentially with .then() rather than nesting:

  return doFirst()
      .then(() => {
          return doSecond();
      })
      .then(() => {
          return doThird();
      });
  

• Avoid using ES6+ features that are not widely supported in Node.js environments

• I like functional JS, map/reduce/foreach/filter should be preferred over for loops

• I like to use wrappers for repeating code, like rate limiting, cachine, etc.

• Never use var, always const/let. Unless you really need to change value, use const

• Never change parameters of functions, always create new variables if you need to change something

• Handle errors at the last possible moment to avoid losing error data when rebuilding. Catch earlier only when it makes sense for the logic

Architectural guidelines

• Try to encapsulate complex logic in modules and expose logic so that final code looks almost like pseudocode

• Name modules based off their functionality, not how they are implemented (for example, module for logging stuff to mongo should be called logger, not mongo)

• Where it makes sense, if there is array getter, also implement getter that returns map, calling original getter and transforming result to map

Service pattern

• Services should be defined as objects with methods, not separate functions

• Use _client for the HTTP client (private by convention), do not export it

• Reference the service object by name inside methods

• Example:

  const got = require("got-verbose");
  const config = require("../../config");
  
  const myService = {
      _client: got.extend({
          prefixUrl: "https://api.example.com",
          headers: {
              authorization: "Bearer " + config.get("MY_API_KEY")
          }
      }),
  
      getItems: () => {
          return myService._client.get("items").then((response) => {
              return JSON.parse(response.body).items;
          });
      },
  
      getItemsMap: () => {
          return myService.getItems().then((items) => {
              const map = {};
              items.forEach((item) => {
                  map[item.id] = item;
              });
              return map;
          });
      }
  };
  
  module.exports = myService;
  

Package manager

• Always use yarn instead of npm, unless there is a package-lock.json present (then use npm)

• Never guess npm package versions — use yarn add <package> (or yarn add -D <package> for dev dependencies) and let yarn resolve the correct version. Do not manually edit dependency versions in package.json.

Version control

• Make sure there is .gitignore file present

  • Make sure to ignore node_modules

Libraries and tools

• Lib I like to use for rate limiting (how many calls of method should happen at the same time) is queue-promised

  • Install it, package name is queue-promised

  • Import method wrapper from queue-promised (const wrapper = require("queue-promised").wrapper;)

  • Use it like this const limitedFunction = wrapper(originalFunction, 5); where 5 is how many calls can happen at the same time

• I like to use uuid package for generating uuids. I like to use v4 method from it. and I import it like this: const uuid = require("uuid").v4;

• I like to use node-cron for cron jobs. I import it like this: const cron = require("node-cron");

• I like to use got-verbose, which is a wrapper around got library for HTTP requests. It exposes identical API as got, but has built-in logging and error handling. I import it like this: const got = require("got-verbose");

  • Note: got-verbose does not work with streams. For streaming, use got directly (const got = require("got");)

  • Avoid using .json() method of got-verbose and json option, instead use .body and parse JSON manually, it does have some unexpected behavior

• I like to use forever for running Node.js applications. Use it in the start script: "start": "forever src/index.js"

Claude notice

• Add note to CLAUDE.md that this skill should be always used

• Suggest changes to this skill, when I suggest code style changes

• If you notice a pattern in my instructions, suggest adding it to this skill

• Try to keep CLAUDE.md in sync with project changes

• If you are writing a pseudocode (calling method or API endpoint you are not sure exists), add TODO comment so I know I should fix it

Building container

It is usual for me to use herokuish build like this

FROM gliderlabs/herokuish:latest

COPY . /app

WORKDIR /app

RUN /bin/herokuish buildpack build

ENV PORT 3000

EXPOSE 3000

Cleanup time

When I tell you it is cleanup time, follow this checklist:

• /implement-js

• update docs (README.md)

• update your docs (CLAUDE.md)

• update missing jsdoc...

• check tests

• check linter