route.post('/', async (req, res, next) => {

  // This should be a middleware or should be handled by a library like Joi.
  const userDTO = req.body;
  const isUserValid = validators.user(userDTO)
  if(!isUserValid) {
    return res.status(400).end();
  }

  // Lot of business logic here...
  const userRecord = await UserModel.create(userDTO);
  delete userRecord.password;
  delete userRecord.salt;
  const companyRecord = await CompanyModel.create(userRecord);
  const companyDashboard = await CompanyDashboard.create(userRecord, companyRecord);

  ...whatever...


  // And here is the 'optimization' that mess up everything.
  // The response is sent to client...
  res.json({ user: userRecord, company: companyRecord });

  // But code execution continues :(
  const salaryRecord = await SalaryModel.create(userRecord, companyRecord);
  eventTracker.track('user_signup',userRecord,companyRecord,salaryRecord);
  intercom.createUser(userRecord);
  gaAnalytics.event('user_signup',userRecord);
  await EmailService.startSignupSequence(userRecord)
});

route.post('/', 
  validators.userSignup, // this middleware take care of validation
  async (req, res, next) => {
    // The actual responsability of the route layer.
    const userDTO = req.body;

    // Call to service layer.
    // Abstraction on how to access the data layer and the business logic.
    const { user, company } = await UserService.Signup(userDTO);

    // Return a response to client.
    return res.json({ user, company });
  });

export default class UserService() {

  async Signup(user) {
    const userRecord = await UserModel.create(user);
    const companyRecord = await CompanyModel.create(userRecord); // needs userRecord to have the database id 
    const salaryRecord = await SalaryModel.create(userRecord, companyRecord); // depends on user and company to be created
    
    ...whatever
    
    await EmailService.startSignupSequence(userRecord)

    ...do more stuff

    return { user: userRecord, company: companyRecord };
  }
}

const dotenv = require('dotenv');
// config() will read your .env file, parse the contents, assign it to process.env.
dotenv.config();

export default {
  port: process.env.PORT,
  databaseURL: process.env.DATABASE_URI,
  paypal: {
    publicKey: process.env.PAYPAL_PUBLIC_KEY,
    secretKey: process.env.PAYPAL_SECRET_KEY,
  },
  paypal: {
    publicKey: process.env.PAYPAL_PUBLIC_KEY,
    secretKey: process.env.PAYPAL_SECRET_KEY,
  },
  mailchimp: {
    apiKey: process.env.MAILCHIMP_API_KEY,
    sender: process.env.MAILCHIMP_SENDER,
  }
}