svn commit: r47564 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Thu Oct 15 04:39:24 UTC 2015

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
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--- 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 at 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>
