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sahat/jsrecipes
Source Code for JSRecipes
JSRecipes is a static Angular 1.x site hosting short how-to guides for Node.js and frontend JavaScript — things like form validation with Express, socket.io basics, and Bootstrap UI patterns. It was a companion to Sahat Yalkabov's Hackathon Starter and was last touched in 2015. This is an archive, not an active project.
The content structure is clean — posts are plain Markdown files organized by backend/frontend and beginner/intermediate/advanced, so the actual recipes are readable without running the app. Sahat was a reliable writer at the time and the Node.js recipes cover real pain points (CSRF, file upload, OAuth with Passport) with working code rather than toy examples. The Gulp build is simple and the Angular routing is straightforward enough that forking and hosting it yourself takes maybe an hour.
Abandoned for over a decade — Angular 1.x is end-of-life, the Express patterns predate async/await and modern middleware conventions, and several recipes reference packages that are themselves deprecated or have had breaking changes. The README is four lines of stack bullets and a license block; there is no documentation on how to add a recipe or what the contribution workflow looked like. Images are loaded from a Dropbox URL that no longer works, so the live site (if it still runs) has broken screenshots throughout. 256 stars over 11 years is not a strong signal of ongoing usefulness.