Node Updates
nodejs
Much like the regular jQuery Roundup, I thought a semi-regular node.js news update would be useful. The changelog and nodejs google group are good places to keep up to date.
Kiwi
TJ has updated kiwi to version 0.2.2. Kiwi is a package manager that’s much like RubyGems. A lot of kiwi’s functionality is in a shell script, so you can do this without already having node:
kiwi install node
This is possible because the dependencies are minimal:
- sed
- awk
- tar
- egrep
Express
By the same author, Express is a web framework inspired by Sinatra. We’ve featured it before on DailyJS, but recently it’s had a lot of work to update it to work with the more recent node API changes.
As well as a tonne of bug fixes, Express now has over 500 watchers on GitHub and four contributors.
Do
Do is a library for managing asynchronous non-blocking operations in node. Usage is a bit like promises, but it doesn’t require an external library.
Do can convert an external library to make it use Do-style continuables:
var fs = Do.convert(require('fs'), ['readFile', 'writeFile']);
// Returns a copy of fs that has readFile and writeFile converted to Do-style continuables
node-microseconds
If you’re interested in super-accurate benchmarks, Elijah Insua has written a node library for getting microseconds out of the unix gettimeofday system call:
var microseconds = require('../lib/node-microseconds').microseconds;
require('sys').puts(microseconds());
