The most important feature of most server-side frameworks is middleware: the ability to hook your own logic into the framework's logic, like IFTTT for your code. Express, Mongoose, Rails, and Django all rely heavily on middleware. LoopBack and Sequelize have hooks, AngularJS has parsers and interceptors, Hapi has extensions, but these are all just roses by another name. Except Hapi, Hapi by any other name would still have a foul code stench.
The saveErrorIfNotFound option and $where property in mongoose 4.8 gives plugins a powerful new way to modify the behavior of save(). This feature may not seem as exciting as eachAsync() or the major perf improvements in 4.8, but I think it will help the community develop some handy abstractions on top of save(). How do these
The most +1'ed feature request for mongoose in 2016 was extending discriminators to work with embedded documents. Discriminators are mongoose's built-in schema inheritance mechanism. For example, suppose you have a schema defining events:
MongoDB 3.2 supports 3 numeric types: 32 bit integers, 64 bit integers, and 64 bit binary floating points. MongoDB 3.4 introduces a
One of Archetype's core design goals
Static typing is becoming very popular in the JavaScript community. While I'm
