Snippets about node

Pages from a CMS in Stati

Write the CMS's posts as Markdown before the build starts. A hook is too late.

Load .env files in Node without a package

dotenv is built into Node now.

Reverse proxy a Node app with nginx

Your app listens on 3000, the world talks to nginx on 443.

Run a Node app as a systemd service

Start on boot, restart on crash, logs in journalctl. No pm2 needed.

Run TypeScript directly with Node

No build step, no ts-node, for scripts and quick experiments.

__dirname in ES modules

It's gone in ESM. Here is the replacement, and the newer, nicer one.

Read a JSON file in Node

Two ways, one of them without any fs code at all.

Sleep in Node without writing a timeout function

Node ships a promise-based setTimeout, so the little helper from my old snippet isn't needed there.