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Node.js Cookbook

Node.js Cookbook - Fifth Edition

By : Bethany Griggs, Manuel Spigolon
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Node.js Cookbook

Node.js Cookbook

By: Bethany Griggs, Manuel Spigolon

Overview of this book

Node.js is a game-changing technology for building modern web applications and tooling, bringing the power of JavaScript to the server and enabling full-stack development in a unified language. This updated edition of this Node.js cookbook, featuring Node.js 22, equips you with the latest advancements and enhancements in the Node.js framework ecosystem. From Bethany Griggs, who has served on the Node.js Technical Steering Committee and participated in the Node.js Release Working Group, and Manuel Spigolon, a core maintainer of Fastify, comes this fifth edition of the Node.js Cookbook to help you master Node.js 22. This book guides you step by step through crafting reusable code with Node.js modules, streamlining development using the Fastify web framework, and implementing data persistence in databases and rigorous testing practices for robust applications. You’ll address security concerns, optimize performance with worker threads, deploy Node.js microservices using containerization and orchestration, and tackle troubleshooting with effective debugging strategies. Packed with real-world examples, this guide empowers you to harness Node.js 22's full potential for creating secure, performant, and dynamic applications.
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Detecting memory leaks

Memory leaks can drastically reduce your application’s performance and can lead to crashes. V8 manages objects and dynamic data in its heap, a binary tree-based structure designed to manage parent-child node relationships. The V8 Garbage Collector (GC) is responsible for managing the heap. It reclaims any memory that is no longer in use – freeing the memory so that it can be reused.

A memory leak occurs when a block of memory is never reclaimed by the GC and is therefore idle and inefficient. This results in pieces of unused memory remaining on the heap. The performance of your application can be impacted when many of these unused memory blocks accumulate in the heap. In the worst cases, the unused memory could consume all the available heap space, which, in turn, can cause your application to crash.

In this recipe, we’ll learn how to use Chrome DevTools to profile memory, enabling us to detect and fix memory leaks.

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