Repost Beyond Callbacks or How Koa helps me Code Better
May 7, 2014
REPOST FROM CODEBETTER
I noticed that CodeBetter is slowing down. Maybe dying. I’m preserving my post from there here.
Original post
For the better part of my life I have been a C# programmer. But lately I have ventured into JavaScript land. And I like it. I have come over the “what kind of junk is this”-phase and come to see the power and beauty that is “hidden under a huge steaming pile of good intentions and blunders is an elegant, expressive programming language”. You should read that book, by the way, that’s the one that made me like JavaScript.
Being a backend-guy (I will NEVER understand CSS… There – I’ve said it!) I soon came to look into Nodetoo. And pretty soon after that I met Express. Express was very nice since it reminded me of Nancy. Felt right at...