nodejs-best-practices

nodejs-best-practices is a cursor rule for Cursor from MN-Lizard-Team/aiyu-multi-agent. It costs 26 tokens per session (1,945 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of decision-making guidelines for building Node.js applications, including framework choice, asynchronous code, security, and system structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when selecting a Node.js framework, designing APIs, handling asynchronous work, and making architecture decisions.
Why use it?
They help developers choose approaches based on the project instead of copying the same Node.js pattern every time.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/. Also seen: mentions Cursor.

Good fit Use them when selecting a Node.js framework, designing APIs, handling asynchronous work, and making architecture decisions.

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Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00026 $0.01945
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00972
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00389
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00194

Measured 4d ago against content hash dd9faad46866, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nodejs-best-practices scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.cursor/rules/skills/nodejs-best-practices.mdc · 337 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 337 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: nodejs-best-practices

Cursor Agent-Requested Rule — applied when AI determines relevance.


Node.js Best Practices

Principles and decision-making for Node.js development in 2025. Learn to THINK, not memorize code patterns.


⚠️ How to Use This Skill

This skill teaches decision-making principles, not fixed code to copy.

  • ASK user for preferences when unclear
  • Choose framework/pattern based on CONTEXT
  • Don't default to same solution every time

1. Framework Selection (2025)

Decision Tree

What are you building?
│
├── Edge/Serverless (Cloudflare, Vercel)
│   └── Hono (zero-dependency, ultra-fast cold starts)
│
├── High Performance API
│   └── Fastify (2-3x faster than Express)
│
├── Enterprise/Team familiarity
│   └── NestJS (structured, DI, decorators)
│
├── Legacy/Stable/Maximum ecosystem
│   └── Express (mature, most middleware)
│
└── Full-stack with frontend
    └── Next.js API Routes or tRPC

Comparison Principles

Factor Hono Fastify Express
Best for Edge, serverless Performance Legacy, learning
Cold start Fastest Fast Moderate
Ecosystem Growing Good Largest
TypeScript Native Excellent Good
Learning curve Low Medium Low

Selection Questions to Ask:

  1. What's the deployment target?
  2. Is cold start time critical?
  3. Does team have existing experience?
  4. Is there legacy code to maintain?

2. Runtime Considerations (2025)

Native TypeScript

Node.js 22+: --experimental-strip-types
├── Run .ts files directly
├── No build step needed for simple projects
└── Consider for: scripts, simple APIs

Module System Decision

ESM (import/export)
├── Modern standard
├── Better tree-shaking
├── Async module loading
└── Use for: new projects

CommonJS (require)
├── Legacy compatibility
├── More npm packages support
└── Use for: existing codebases, some edge cases

Read the full file on GitHub · 337 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 337 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A dd9faad46866

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nodejs-best-practices is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository MN-Lizard-Team/aiyu-multi-agent (7 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,945 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.