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Production-Grade Node.js Architecture Playbook
A one-page-per-lens playbook of the architectural decisions senior Node.js engineers actually make — module boundaries, APIs, data, errors, testing, plus security, performance, and tooling on the outer ring. A condensed companion to The Conscious Node. Pin it next to your editor.
What's inside
- Five architectural lenses every senior engineer reads a Node.js codebase through — structure, APIs, data, errors, tests, plus security, performance, and tooling on the outer ring.
- "Where does this data live?" decision tree — in-memory, Redis, or database.
- "Query builder or ORM?" decision tree — Kysely, Objection.js, or plain pg.
- "What do I log and what do I never log?" — structured logs, correlation IDs, redaction.
- The 10 rules of senior Node — heuristics that survive any framework cycle.
- Recommended 2026 Node.js stack at a glance.
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