Get the best tips of building startup with Node.js from AfterShip - a shipment tracking API for online retailers, supporting UPS, FedEx, USPS, DHL and over 200 carriers.

1. Top 5 Best Practices for
Node.js Development

2. What’s AfterShip
Node.js Best Practices

3. Shipment tracking API
Support 200+ carriers

4. White-label tracking data
30K Online Retailers

5. The Art of Package Tracking
Unifying tracking data
Pending
Info
Received
In Transit
Out
for Delivery
Failed
Attempt
Exception Delivered

6. We track over 30M shipments
10x growth year to year
7,000,000
6,000,000
5,000,000
4,000,000
3,000,000
2,000,000
1,000,000
0
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
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Monthly Shipment

7. AfterShip Stack
We build product, not technology
beanstalkd

8. Evolution – AfterShip Stack
Reason for changing

9. What’s AfterShip
Node.js Best Practices

10. Define your
coding guideline
Less communication
Avoid spagetti code
https://github.com/AfterShip/coding-guideline-javascript

11. Use npm
Even for Private library

12. DO NOT
reinvent
the wheel
async, momentjs, request
lodash, pm2, jshint, mocha,
grunt

13. Structure Node.js
application

14. We made a big mistake
API first

15. AfterShip is hiring (always)
Backend / Frontend developers
Love coding
Apply the best tech to AfterShip
Self-learner
Find solution via your own ways
Adaptability
New projects, new tools

16. founders@aftership.com
Check out aftership.com/jobs