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Node Roundup: Node 0.9.0, ttycast, Simba

25 Jul 2012 | By Alex Young | Tags node modules terminal config
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Node 0.9.0

Node 0.9.0 is out, and this marks the first in the 0.9 series of unstable releases. In the recent commits there’s been an interesting discussion about uncaughtException:

So if uncaughtException may be removed in the future, does that mean every node.js process will have at least 1 domain?

Node 0.8.3 is the latest addition to the stable line, and this release adds a lot of fixes:

  • net: fix net.Server.listen({fd:x}) error reporting (Ben Noordhuis)
  • net: fix bogus errno reporting (Ben Noordhuis)
  • build: fix add-on loading on freebsd (Ben Noordhuis)
  • build: fix spurious mksnapshot crashes for good (Ben Noordhuis)
  • domain: Fix memory leak on error (isaacs)
  • events: Fix memory leak from removeAllListeners (Nathan Rajlich)
  • zlib: Fix memory leak in Unzip class. (isaacs)
  • crypto: Fix memory leak in DecipherUpdate() (Ben Noordhuis)

ttycast

ttycast

ttycast (GitHub: dtinth / ttycast, License: MIT, npm: ttycast) by Thai Pangsakulyanont is a terminal-to-web broadcasting utility built with ttyrec, Connect, and Socket.IO.

Once ttyrec and ttycast are installed, activity within a terminal can be viewed through a browser. The author has written up some tips on how to do this over SSH.

I tried it out, but I had a problem running it due to a Connect version issue. I’ve let the author know through GitHub so hopefully it’ll work out of the box fairly soon.

Simba

Simba (License: MIT, npm: simba) by Charles Bourasseau is a configuration management module:

simba
  .add('db')
  .children() 
    .add('host', 'localhost')
    .add('port')
    .add('username')
    .add('password')
  .end();

console.log(simba.get('db').get('host')); // 'localhost'

There is full documentation available for Simba that explains some of the underlying concepts and each API method.


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