nodenative

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nodenative is a C++14 (aka C++1y) port for node.js.

Linux and OSX Coverage Status

Please note that nodenative project is under heavy development.

Feature highlights

  • Promises/Future functionality based on system event pool (native::Promise<R>, native::Future<R>)
  • Asynchronous callbacks based on system event pool (native<Future<R>> native::async(F, Args...))
  • Thread pool based on uv_work* (native::worker(F, Args...))
  • HTTP protocol

Sample code

Simplest web-server example using nodenative.

#include <iostream>
#include <native/native.hpp>
using namespace native::http;

int main() {
    Server server;
    if(!server.listen("0.0.0.0", 8080, [](http::shared_ptr<Transaction> iTransaction) {
        ServerResponse& res = iTransaction->getResponse();
        res.set_status(200);
        res.set_header("Content-Type", "text/plain");
        res.end("C++ FTW\n");
    })) return 1; // Failed to run server.

    std::cout << "Server running at http://0.0.0.0:8080/" << std::endl;
    return native::run();
}

Getting started

nodenative requires libuv and http-parser lib to use.

Build

To compile included sample application(webserver.cpp) first run the following command in the project directory:

git submodule update --init

then generate the build files and compile:

./build.py
make -C out

build.py will try to download build dependencies (gyp) if missing. If you prefer to download manually you can do:

$ git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/external/gyp.git build/gyp
OR
$ svn co http://gyp.googlecode.com/svn/trunk build/gyp

by default will generate for make file. if you want to generate for a specific build tool use -f <buildtool>. e.x:

./build.py -f ninja
ninja -C out/Debug/

alternatively you can set custom paths to http-parser and libuv if you dont want to use the submodules. If it is build with make in debug mode, then executables are saved to out/Debug dir.

Run samples

In samples dir you can see samples which use native library.

To run webserver sample compiled by make in debug mode:

out/Debug/webserver

Run tests

To run tests compiled by make in debug mode:

out/Debug/test

Tested on

  • Ubuntu 11.10 and GCC 4.6.1. and OSX 10.10.2
  • ArchLinux with GCC 4.9.1 and clang 3.6.0

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