Thank you kindly.  This at least helps get me started.  Yeah, I know it's 
kind of asking for an opinionated answer, but it helps me when I review 
existing code instead of googling for random snippets across the internet.

I'll start with the actual node codebase and move from there.  



On Monday, 15 December 2014 12:51:28 UTC-5, Floby wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> my advice on the matter of "good coding style" and "best practices" are 
> that these are similar to bandwagons. The smarter thing to do would be to 
> try and gain some understanding of the existing practices and where they 
> come from.
>
> that said : 
> - the node.js codebase itself has a pretty straighforward coding style
> - express has had a lot of contributors and does some pretty clever stuff
> - I don't like request's coding style and particularily not how it's just 
> one big file
> - any of substack's module is a good place to start as they are usually 
> small and easy to wrap your head around
> - nodejitsu/flatiron codebases are pretty well done in my opinion, very 
> organised
> - strongloop code should be ok to look at as well
>
>
>
> On Saturday, 13 December 2014 00:03:02 UTC+1, Justin Maat wrote:
>>
>> Apologies since I know this is sort of a broad question, but I'm fairly 
>> new with Node and trying to wrap my helload around some best practices.  I 
>> come from a java/scala background and while learning a new language, I 
>> typically like to look at existing libraries to get some knowledge and 
>> understanding.  
>>
>> My goal - I'm trying to make a npm module that will aggregate a bunch of 
>> different (but functionally related) rest api's then expose them with some 
>> common wrapper functions.
>>
>> For example - http://domain1/some_endpoint/..  , 
>> http://domain2/some_other_endpoint,..   etc.    Where the endpoints 
>> (some_endpoint and other_endpoint) do functionally similar things 
>>
>> Where my module will allow something like 
>>
>> var myapp = require('myapp.js');
>> var Domain1 = myapp.domain1;
>> var Domain2 = myapp.domain2;
>>
>>
>> Domain1.endpoint(args);   //or something to this effect
>> Domain2.endpoint(args);
>>
>>
>> My question is, what are some open source resources that are considered 
>> "good" that I can review for best practices on how to structure the app? 
>>  So far, I've looked through the request, async, and q libraries to try and 
>> find some inspiration but there seems to be a huge difference in coding 
>> styles between alot of these open source projects.
>>
>>
>> So.. I guess my question can be generalized as - what are some good open 
>> source projects that are considered "good" code that can be used for 
>> reference?  
>>
>

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