Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 04:39:23 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r47564 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201510150439.t9F4dNos040150@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Thu Oct 15 04:39:23 2015 New Revision: 47564 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47564 Log: Add Node.js report from olivierd Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Thu Oct 15 04:19:11 2015 (r47563) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Thu Oct 15 04:39:23 2015 (r47564) @@ -596,4 +596,62 @@ </help> </project> + <project cat='ports'> + <title>Node.js Modules</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Olivier</given> + <common>Duchateau</common> + </name> + <email>olivierd@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://www.assembla.com/spaces/cozycloud/subversion/source">Node.js + modules</url> + <url href="https://people.FreeBSD.org/~olivierd/porters-handbook/using-nodejs.html">Pre-draft + documentation</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime + for easily building fast, scalable, network applications. It uses + an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight + and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications + that run across distributed devices.</p> + + <p>The goal of this project is to make it easy to install the + modules available on the <a href="http://npmjs.org/">npm package + registry</a>.</p> + + <p>Currently, the repository contains more than 100 new ports, + in particular:</p> + + <ul> + <li>CoffeeScript (a programming language that transcompiles to + JavaScript)</li> + <li>node-gyp (allows building Node.js addons, often written in + C or C++)</li> + <li>Request (a simplified HTTP client)</li> + </ul> + + <p>We have also written several helpers for the porting, available + in our experimental repository. + </p> + </body> + + <help> + <task> + <p>Bring in grunt.js (and modules), the JavaScript task runner.</p> + </task> + <task> + <p>Put more effort into support of node-gyp in the USES + framework</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> + </report>
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