TeleHash, Spark, brequire
TeleHash
TeleHash is a new wire protocol for real time, distributed communication with JSON and UDP. Running this from a shell prompt:
echo '{"+end":"3b6a6..."}' | nc -u telehash.org 42424
will return a response using TeleHash. There’s a TeleHash specification, and possibly more interesting to our readers is the TeleHash Node example.
The combination of JSON and UDP is very interesting and should enable JavaScript developers to make amazingly efficient low-level network applications.
Spark
Spark (GitHub: Wolfy87 / Spark, MIT License) by Oliver Caldwell is a client-side framework that provides DOM querying, HTML/CSS manipulation methods, Ajax, JSON encoding/decoding, animations, and possibly almost everything else jQuery does. The syntax will be familiar to jQuery users:
Spark('p').css({ color: '#ff0000'})
.animate({ opacity: 0.5 }, 2000);
Some of the internals remind me of jQuery a little bit, but it’s much simpler. If you’ve been following our framework series and find this type of project interesting, you’ll probably enjoying looking through the source.
Client/Server Code Sharing with brequire
Sharing JavaScript between client and server by Jonah Fox is a tutorial about his brequire library. It shows how code can be shared between Node and browsers.
The tutorial demonstrates what happens to your code after it’s run through the brequire command-line tool. This includes an example of making Node automatically filter files through brequire’s API.
