Building a Background Job Pipeline That Holds Up
Retries turned an 800-person import into 975 rows. Build a background job pipeline with idempotent writes, backoff, and a DLQ — fix your queue today.
Retries turned an 800-person import into 975 rows. Build a background job pipeline with idempotent writes, backoff, and a DLQ — fix your queue today.
A missing tenant filter returns a 200 with the wrong person’s data. Here’s how I moved the rule out of my code and into Postgres.
Learn how to set up Sequelize migrations in a TypeScript project using Umzug. This step-by-step guide shows how to create version-controlled database schema changes with rollback support for safer development.
Learn how to make your Sequelize and Express API production-ready with proper model validation and centralized error handling. Prevent bad data, return meaningful HTTP status codes, and build resilient Node.js applications that fail gracefully.
Learn how to build a clean and scalable REST API with Node.js, Express, and Sequelize using TypeScript. In this step-by-step guide, you’ll create a User model, implement a repository pattern, define CRUD routes, and structure your backend for long-term maintainability.
Learn a practical testing setup for Node.js and TypeScript using Jest and Supertest. This guide covers unit tests, mocks, and integration testing to help you build reliable, maintainable APIs with confidence.
Learn how to write integration tests for Node.js and Express APIs using Jest and Supertest. Test middleware, validation, error handling, and improve coverage with real-world examples.
Most Node.js developers write state-based unit tests and stop there. While those tests are important, they don’t tell the full story. Real-world applications are made of collaborating modules, and if those collaborations break, your app breaks.
In this guide, I’ll walk you through how to unit test an Express API in Node.js, using practical examples from a Task Manager project.
Stop struggling with messy Node.js code. Discover how to use TypeScript interfaces and inheritance to build scalable, maintainable projects. Learn senior-level strategies to enforce structure and reuse code efficiently.