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Node 0.2.4
Node 0.2.4 was released on Sunday. This version includes:
- —eval in command line options
- Net-related fixes
- —max-stack-size flag
Download it from nodejs.org, and for 0.2.4-specific documentation bookmark this: http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.2.4/api.html
node-ncurses
Ncurses is something of a nemesis of mine. Working with Ncurses is probably the least fun I’ve ever had programming, and I’ve written a fair bit of Ada in my time. Last week I mentioned Node FFI, which made me wonder if anyone would knock up a quick Ncurses binding, but then I found an existing one called node-ncurses.
Ncurses refers to “New Curses”, it’s an emulation layer for curses that uses Terminfo and a bunch of other stuff so you can make text-based interfaces. If you’ve ever used mutt, irssi, or lynx you’ll know what I mean.
The author has documented the entire API in the readme, it looks a lot like C Ncurses from what I remember of it. The examples demonstrate the API:
var nc = require('../ncurses'), consts = require('../ncconsts');
var win = new nc.ncWindow();
win.print("Max number of colors supported by this terminal == " + win.numColors + "\n");
win.print("Max number of color pairs supported by this terminal == " + win.maxColorPairs + "\n\n");
win.print("White on black\n");
You might think I’m joking about Ncurses being my nemesis, but every time I run the node-ncurses examples I get kernel panics!
The author Brian has a blog where he writes about Node, so you may like to check it out: mscdex.net
Wilson
Wilson by Chris Dickinson is a Django-style Node framework. There’s an example app that uses postgres and documentation at readthedocs.org. If you look at Dickinson’s other projects you can see he’s created quite a few that draw on ideas from Django.
