sequest (GitHub: mikeal/sequest, License: MIT) by Mikeal Rogers is a simplified interface to the ssh2 (GitHub: mscdex/ssh2, License: MIT) that was featured earlier. It provides a simplified approach on top of the stream based interface. For example, each command…
ssh2
ssh2 (GitHub: mscdex/ssh2, License: MIT) by Brian White is the module for SSH networking in Node.js and is written completely in JavaScript. If you want to do anything SSH related, odds are ssh2 can do it for you. …
mmmagic
mmmagic (GitHub: mscdex/mmmagic, License: MIT) by Brian White is an async libmagic binding for Node.js for detecting content types by actually doing data inspection and not just trusting a file extension. Obviously this is a much slower…
franc
franc (GitHub: wooorm/franc, License: MIT) by Titus Wormer exists to answer one question – what language is this string written in? And no, this time we aren’t talking about programming languages (although I’m sure there’s…
Comparing JavaScript Templating Engines: Jade, Mustache, Dust and More
Lets talk templates, specifically JavaScript powered templates. Even more specifically – template engines that work as well on the server side as they do on the client side. After all,…
ndm
ndm (GitHub: npm/ndm, License: ISC) by Benjamin E. Coe of NPM Inc makes it easy to deploy a complex service oriented architecture by allowing you to easily install OS-specific service wrappers directly from an NPM package and…
queue
queue (GitHub: jessetane/queue, License: MIT) by Jesse Tane is a 130 line implementation of asynchronous function queue with adjustable concurrency. This allows your to schedule a bunch of async jobs and throttle them for whatever…
ware
The middleware architechture is strange beast. On one hand everybody knows about it and knows how to use it. On the other hand, it seems there are only a handful…
Editor showdown: Sublime vs Atom vs Cloud 9
TL;DR Sublime is awesome, Atom has potential and Cloud 9 is downright impressive. History Picking the right editor has always been kind of a big deal for me. I’ve had…
harp.js
harp (GitHub: sintaxi/harp, License: MIT) by Brock Whitten is a zero-configuration static web server with built in pre-processing. harp server can serve Jade, Markdown, EJS, Less, Stylus, Sass, and CoffeeScript as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript without any…