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NodeCasts
NodeCasts.org has a screencast about Node by Emerson Macedo, hosted on YouTube with 720p available. He has a Twitter account at @NodeCasts where you can request topics for future casts.
Nodecraft
Have you been playing Minecraft? One of my Minecraft buddies found Nodecraft by Jeremy Apthorp. It’s not intended for general use yet, but there’s some interesting JavaScript in there, like protocol.js. You can see stuff like the server packet structure:
var serverPacketStructure = {
0x00: [],
0x01: [int('playerID'), str('serverName'), str('motd')],
0x02: [str('serverID')],
0x03: [str('message')],
0x04: [long('time')],
0x05: [int('invType'), items('items')],
0x06: [int('x'), int('y'), int('z')],
0x0d: [double('x'), double('y'), double('stance'), double('z'),
float('rotation'), float('pitch'), bool('flying')],
I have a feeling Node would be a pretty good platform for a game server. I don’t know if Apthorp intends to keep working on this, but it’s still interesting to look at what he’s done so far.
Tempalias
Tempalias (MIT) by Philip Hofstetter is a Node app for generating temporary email addresses. It’s actually used by tempalias.com.
The frontend code is pure HTML/CSS/JavasScript using Sammy for the interesting part of the logic. You will find that in public/*. The beef of the code lies in the SMTP proxy (lib/tempalias_smtp.js) and in the model class representing an alias (lib/tempalias.js). Static webpages are served by the web server (lib/tempalias_http.js) using node-paperboy which is – as are all other dependencies – located in deps/ as a git submodule.
It’s been around for a while, but it looks like it’s still alive. It’s one to file under your ‘full node app’ bookmarks.
