Test Driven Development or TDD is one approach that really helps in this aspect. TTD basically means you write failing tests before actually implementing the feature. Then you code up the feature to make the tests pass. Then you repeat the process for the next feature. TDD not only minimizes the possibility of bugs in your code, but it also makes you more confident on your code and its behavior.

actually right, having it on production would let us monitor live usage!

pretty nice! thank you :) btw, you might want the users to install it as a dev dependency: install express-status-monitor --save-dev

Here's my setup: Install LiveReload Chrome Extension Install gulp , nodemon and livereload npm modules in the project dir setup gulpfile.js as follows: "use strict" const gulp = require ( 'gulp' ) const nodemon = require ( 'gulp-nodemon' ) const livereload = require ( 'gulp-livereload' ) gulp.task( 'default' , () => { livereload.listen() nodemon({ script: 'app.js' , ext: 'js' }).on( 'restart' , () => { gulp.src( 'app.js' ) .pipe(livereload()) }) }) Enable livereload on chrome Run gulp in the project dir Done! nodemon restarts the server on change and the on restart callback runs livereload. Then the livereload on chrome detects it and reloads the page. Profit! :) Hope this helps. :)

i really wish this was free :/

How about some pythonic way of doing it? Your code returns in about 20 seconds on my machine. The following one-liner takes ~9 seconds: print sum(xrange(100000000))

http://vuejs.org/ FTW!! Simplest one out there! :)

http://vorpal.js.org/ is best one out there! hands down! :)

https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter Or how about a full blown framework - https://www.meteor.com ? comes with example apps -> boilerplates! ;)

I used perl on production just once :D And they say the worst thing happened to us after perl is php! True that! :P