Part of the turnoff for me was the middle-schooler tone and vocabulary. Good walkthrough with good code examples though, obviously written by a very smart JS dev.
In reply to XCSme - no I am not new to Node and my point of the post is to illustrate some of the techniques that I haven't seen published anywhere to HN and the community. My focus is quite different from what you think it is, so maybe it is my bad for bad writing skills, I'm still new to writing and learning.
https://contently.com/strategist/2015/01/28/this-surprising-...