Node Roundup: 0.6.14, Mocha 1.0, ncluster, ENVy
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deployment
mocha
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Node 0.6.14
Node 0.6.14 was released soon after 0.6.13. This release includes bug fixes and updates npm to 1.1.12.
Mocha 1.0
Mocha 1.0 has been released. There’s now a GitHub-flavoured Markdown reporter, and JavaScript “compilers” are now supported with mocha --compilers coffee:coffee-script.
An API has also been added, so it’s possible to programatically create tests:
var mocha = new Mocha;
mocha.reporter('spec').ui('bdd');
mocha.addFile('test/suite.js');
mocha.addFile('test/runner.js');
mocha.addFile('test/runnable.js');
ncluster
ncluster (npm: ncluster) by Ben Murphy is a zero-downtime clustering solution. It’ll reload the application when a SIGHUP is issued, and gracefully quit when SIGQUIT is sent.
Ben has designed it to be used with Capistrano. He’s also created a Node/Ubuntu Vagrant deployment solution with instructions for deploying his demo app to a virtual machine (nodejs_vagrant_helloworld).
ENVy
ENVy (npm: envy) by Elio Capella Sánchez is a small module for managing JSON settings files. It’ll use require to load a file called config.json in the project’s root directory.
It also uses a convention for automatically determining the environment and loading the appropriate properties. Given a JSON file like this:
{
"environment": "development",
"development": {
"test": "Development property"
},
"production": {
"test": "Production property"
}
}
Then require('envy').config will load the development settings, so config.test will return “Development property”.
