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Fibers and Threads in node.js – what for?
I like node.js, and I’m not the only one, obviously! I like it primarily for two things: it is simple and it is very fast. I already said it many times but one more won’t hurt. Before working with...
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Node.js: Awesome Runtime and New Age JavaScript Gospel
I am a big fan of node.js but I have a big problem with the core team. No need to hide it and pretend everything is OK. The fibers vs. callback war erupted again this week on the mailing list, with new...
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Asynchronous JavaScript with Generators – An Experiment
I have recently added a third blade to my little asynchronous programming swiss army knife: the generator blade. Looks sharp! Here are some details. Generators Generators are JavaScript’s flavor of...
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node.js for the rest of us
Simple things should be simple. Complex things should be possible. Alan Kay I published streamline.js 18 months ago but did not write a tutorial. I just took the time to do it. The tutorial implements...
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Node.js stream API: events or callbacks?
Last year, I wrote a blog post about events and node streams. In this post, I proposed an alternative API for streams: callback-oriented rather than event-oriented. For readable streams, the proposal...
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Node’s social pariahs
I learned a new expression on the node mailing list this week: social pariahs. The node.js police is after them, and it looks like I’m on the black list. I should probably take it easy and just “roll...
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Harmony Generators in streamline.js
Harmony generators have landed in a node.js fork this week. I couldn’t resist, I had to give them a try. Getting started If you want to try them, that’s easy. First, build and install node from Andy...
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Bringing async/await to life in JavaScript
My dream has come true this week. I can now write clean asynchronous code in JavaScript: no callbacks, no intrusive control flow library, no ugly preprocessor. Just plain JavaScript! This is made...
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Easy node.js streams
JavaScript is a great playground for experimentation. After ES6 generators and Galaxy I went back to one of my pet topics: streams. The simple streams API that we have been using in our product works...
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TJ leaving node.js
I just saw the news. TJ Holowaychuk, one of node’s important and respected contributors is leaving node.js for Go. Of course, this is not good news, especially for people like me who have invested a...
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