Mobile number has become the defacto user authentication mechanism in India and hence, OTP generation is a very common use case. otp-gen-agent is a Nano ID based small utility lib to generate OTP (one time password).
Node Version Manager (NVM) is an open source version manager for Node.js (Node) and allows to easily install & manage different versions of Node and switch between them on a per-shell basis.
AbortController is the standard way to abort any ongoing operations. AbortController and AbortSignal are now part of Nodejs LTS (originally introduced in v15.0.0).
Modern apps usually don’t work in isolation. They interact with entities like other APIs, file system, network, databases, etc. Each of these interactions adds an unknown delay to the handling of the incoming request. Sometimes, these interactions can take long time than expected resulting in overall delay in response. In such cases, the apps need a way to abort any operations that have taken longer than expected.
Mongoose is the most widely schema-based solution to model your application data in MongoDB. It includes built-in type casting, validation, query building, business logic hooks and more, out of the box.
Event Loop is what allows Node.js to perform non-blocking I/O operations — despite the fact that JavaScript is single-threaded — by offloading operations to the system kernel whenever possible. Understanding the event loop is crucial for mastering Node.js streams and asynchronous programming patterns.