Backend Patterns
REST and GraphQL API design, repository and service layers, caching, and database optimization for Node.js backends.
- What
- REST and GraphQL API design, repository and service layers, caching, and database optimization for Node.js backends.
- Cost
- Free
- Needs
- Use "Backend Patterns" with your Muse.
- Install
- Copy the installer prompt below into your Muse — your agent does the rest.
Curated by Skill Harbor: a dense reference of backend architecture patterns for building or reviewing Node.js, Express, and Next.js API routes and their data access. Covers resource-based REST URL design with filtering, sorting, and pagination conventions, the repository pattern for abstracting data access (with a worked Supabase example), the service layer for keeping business logic out of controllers, database optimization (N+1 queries, indexing, connection pooling), and caching strategies across Redis, in-memory stores, and HTTP cache headers. Also touches background jobs and async processing, structured error handling and validation, and middleware for auth, logging, and rate limiting. Written as pass/fail code examples, so an agent can apply the patterns directly while writing or reviewing code. By @affaan-m, listed here with credit to its creator. From the affaan-m/ECC repository (MIT). Honest caveats: Node.js and TypeScript oriented throughout; the ideas transfer to other stacks but the examples will not compile elsewhere. Skill Harbor never reviews the code, review it yourself before use.
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Install
Copy the install package below, then paste it into MuseThe install prompt below already includes the vetting steps: your agent follows the community checklist before installing anything with executable code. Want more?
Use "Backend Patterns" with your Muse. Prerequisites: the Muse app (mobile or web). Pure guidance skill, nothing to install. A Node.js/TypeScript backend to build or review. 1. Open the skill: https://github.com/affaan-m/ECC/blob/main/skills/backend-patterns/SKILL.md and copy the full SKILL.md text. 2. Paste it into a chat with Muse and add: "Review [this API route / this data-access code] against these backend patterns: [paste your code or describe the endpoint]." 3. Ask Muse to flag violations (missing repository layer, N+1 queries, no pagination, unstructured errors) and propose the corrected shape. Tip: the repository pattern plus service layer is the highest-leverage change for most codebases. Start there before micro-optimizing queries. Safety: a skill is plain-text instructions; it runs nothing by itself. Review any code before committing it, never paste secrets into a chat, and review anything Muse proposes before it acts.
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Questions
How do I install a build?
Every product page includes a copy-paste install prompt. Paste it into your Muse and it sets the build up for you — no manual configuration.
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