[nodejs] APE comparison

[ferenc]

Hi,

Could you please point out the differences between APE-project and
nodejs and how nodejs is different.

What I've found out so far was the JS VM, which is SpiderMonkey in
APE's case.
APE's core is written in C whereas nodejs in C++.

Looking at the features I've seen MySAC already implemented in APE and
only found libmysql module for nodejs.

Regards,
Ferenc





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[mscdex]

On May 19, 10:45 am, ferenc <ferenc.vehm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could you please point out the differences between APE-project and
> nodejs and how nodejs is different.
>
> What I've found out so far was the JS VM, which is SpiderMonkey in
> APE's case.
> APE's core is written in C whereas nodejs in C++.

On May 19, 10:45 am, ferenc <ferenc.vehm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could you please point out the differences between APE-project and
> nodejs and how nodejs is different.
>

Prior to re-finding and deciding on node.js, I had looked at and
tinkered a little bit with APE. Basically, APE is a publish-subscriber
comet server with mysql support. On the other hand, node.js is a more
generic system that allows you to do many different things (including
easily writing a comet server). You can take a look at the
documentation here to see just what the node.js _core_ can do:
http://nodejs.org/api.html

node.js has a very active community with a ton of node.js modules
(written in js) and addons (written in C++) available. You can find a
list of these and other useful links here: http://wiki.github.com/ry/node/wikis

> Looking at the features I've seen MySAC already implemented in APE and
> only found libmysql module for nodejs.

If you click on the "Modules" link on the wiki page linked to above,
you'll find more DB bindings than just libmysql.

[Guillermo Rauch]

Prior to re-finding and deciding on node.js, I had looked at and

tinkered a little bit with APE. Basically, APE is a publish-subscriber
comet server with mysql support. On the other hand, node.js is a more
generic system that allows you to do many different things (including
easily writing a comet server). You can take a look at the
documentation here to see just what the node.js _core_ can do:
http://nodejs.org/api.html

That's not entirely accurate. APE exposes more APIs aside from the one you mention (which is the APE protocol).

For example, a proxy to a TCP socket connection: http://www.ape-project.org/demos/6/tcpsocket-demo-irc.html (thus implementing the IRC protocol on the client side)[1]

Node is different in the sense that it exposes more basic APIs, giving more flexibility to developers and doing a lot more in JavaScript. A WebSocket server in Node consists of implementing the handshake in JavaScript and sending the encoded data through the wire on top of a HTTP server API[2]

In APE, a WebSocket server is written in C and lightly exposed to JavaScript.

[1] this can be done easily with socket.io as well

[2] which is also written in JavaScript on top of a tcp Stream API

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