The latest articles on DEV Community by Juan (@kouron). https://dev.to/kouron https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4011565%2F23f90c05-c670-427f-8db0-0bf2e5079a31.jpg https://dev.to/kouron en Juan Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:55:50 +0000 https://dev.to/kouron/new-project-4mfa https://dev.to/kouron/new-project-4mfa <p>Today I had the opportunity of stop expecting and start acting, this is my first backend project, is just the firs release cause it will be bigger in the next weeks, the challenge in this first release was managing the search methods to avoid crashing.</p> <p>Any feedback here is welcome!</p> <div class="ltag-github-readme-tag"> <div class="readme-overview"> <h2> <img src="https://assets.dev.to/assets/github-logo-5a155e1f9a670af7944dd5e12375bc76ed542ea80224905ecaf878b9157cdefc.svg" alt="GitHub logo"> <a href="https://github.com/Dlaskn" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Dlaskn </a> / <a href="https://github.com/Dlaskn/price-catch" rel="noopener noreferrer"> price-catch </a> </h2> <h3> </h3> </div> <div class="ltag-github-body"> <div id="readme" class="md"><div class="markdown-heading"> <h1 class="heading-element">🏷️ Price-Catch</h1> </div> <blockquote> <p><strong>🚧 Project Status: Alpha (v0.1.0-alpha)</strong> <em>This microservice and CLI tool is currently in its early Alpha stage. The core extraction logic using Axios and Cheerio is functional and optimized for static HTML content. Support for dynamic JS-rendered pages and advanced fallback methods are planned for upcoming releases.</em></p> </blockquote> <p>Hello world! Welcome to <strong>Price-Catch</strong>, a lightweight and fast microservice designed to extract product prices and currencies from e-commerce websites.</p> <p>Currently, this acts as a standalone CLI tool for testing and local extraction, but it is architected to be integrated as a microservice into a larger, modular ecosystem.</p> <div class="markdown-heading"> <h2 class="heading-element">⚙️ How it Works (The Extraction Cascade)</h2> </div> <p>The extraction engine is built with efficiency in mind. It uses a "cascade" approach, starting with the most lightweight methods and only escalating to resource-heavy methods if necessary.</p> <ol> <li> <strong>Raw HTML &amp; Meta Tags (Current Active Method):</strong> Uses <code>axios</code> and <code>cheerio</code> to fetch and parse the…</li> </ol></div> </div> <div class="gh-btn-container"><a class="gh-btn" href="https://github.com/Dlaskn/price-catch" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub</a></div> </div> programming javascript beginners software