Addendum: Caolan McMahon (the author of async library) provides a nice example and more details regarding prefering closures over object methods in the first point of his article http://caolanmcmahon.com/posts/nodejs_style_and_structure/. Many of his other points are also helpful to someone starting out with Node (especially "Always check for errors in callbacks" and "Stick to the callback convention"):
There is a vocal minority on the Node.js mailing list and elsewhere which > promotes the use of other strategies for handling asynchronous code ... > [but] The vast majority of Node developers follow this style > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
