Node Roundup: Boxcars, password-reset, Kraken
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middleware
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Boxcars
Boxcars (npm: boxcars) by Azer Koçulu is a library for fetching remote or local resources:
boxcars('http://google.com', '/var/log/foo.log', 'http://github.com')(function(error, homepages) {
// Prints the homepage of google.com
console.log(homepages[0]);
});
It can also be used to define collections of resources, or cache them through preloading. The author has included tests written with his highkick and lowkick modules.
password-reset
password-reset (License: MIT/X11, npm: password-reset) by James Halliday is middleware for dealing with password resets that will work with Express.
It’s built with James’ pony module which sends emails, and a full example including the required Express routes is included in the project’s documentation.
Kraken
Kraken (License: MIT, npm: kraken) by Przemek Matylla is a client for the Kraken Web Optimizer.
Image URLs or uploads can be optimised using this module, and a Kraken Account is required to use it.
Kraken itself was built with Node, and there are a few details about their implementation on the Kraken About page.
