Node.js
EADDRINUSE: Finding and Killing Whatever Took Your Port
Address already in use. Here is how to find the process, why it sometimes is not a process at all, and why the port stays busy after you kill it.
JavaScript
Maximum Call Stack Size Exceeded When It Is Not Recursion
Sometimes it is infinite recursion. Often it is spreading a large array into a function call, and the fix is completely different.
JavaScript
Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0 Means You Got HTML
The angle bracket is the first character of an HTML error page. Your API returned a page, not JSON, and here is how to find out which page.
JavaScript
No Access-Control-Allow-Origin Header Is Present: What CORS Is Actually Doing
CORS errors are a browser protecting you from a response it already received. Understanding that one fact makes every CORS error obvious.
Node.js
Finding a Node.js Memory Leak With Heap Snapshots
Memory climbs, the process gets killed, and restarting fixes it for six hours. Here is the diff based method that finds the retainer.
Node.js
UnhandledPromiseRejection Crashes Your Node Process Now
It used to be a warning. Since Node 15 it terminates the process, and that change surfaced a lot of latent bugs.
JavaScript
Cannot Read Properties of Undefined: A Systematic Way to Find the Real Culprit
The error names the property, not the reason. Here is how to work backwards from the message to the function that returned nothing.