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Native Abstractions for Node.js

12 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 0 stories, 12 comments · first 2015-01-14 · latest 2025-09-20

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  1. …https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js https://github.com/barrysteyn/node-scrypt https://github.com/nodejs/nan https://github.com/mixmark-io/turndown https://github.com/mixmark-io/domino https://github.com/webpack/webpack https://github.co
    comment by CMay · 2025-09-20 · in Less is safer: Reducing the risk of supply chain attacks
  2. Or use the relatively new NaN helper TypedArrayContents: https://github.com/nodejs/nan/blob/master/doc/v8_misc.md#api...
    comment by zbjornson · 2016-04-03 · in Type conversions from JavaScript to C++ in V8
  3. …uses libuv[2] behind the scenes to launch a thread[3]. 0. https://www.npmjs.com/package/bcrypt 1. https://github.com/nodejs/nan 2. https://github.com/libuv/libuv 3. https://blog.scottfrees.com/building-an-asynchronous-c-addon...
    comment by warfangle · 2016-02-17 · in How to Safely Store Your Users' Passwords in 2016
  4. And it (and native modules) do this pretty well via nan ( https://github.com/nodejs/nan ).
    comment by STRML · 2016-01-20 · in Enable Node.js to Run with Microsoft's ChakraCore Engine
  5. …layer called NaN ("Native Abstractions for Node.js") for people developing Node binary plugins. https://github.com/nodejs/nan
    comment by cpeterso · 2016-01-19 · in Enable Node.js to Run with Microsoft's ChakraCore Engine
  6. Its a long goal as of now that everyone want to achieve. You can follow this discussion at https://github.com/nodejs/nan/issues/349
    comment by ksp4186 · 2016-01-13 · in ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open
  7. This is definitely a problem today, but NAN ( https://github.com/nodejs/nan ) which is now the recommended way to build native modules, offers a way out. That project provides a stable API to insulate module developers from changes between…
    comment by aravindet · 2015-12-05 · in Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source
  8. …(more) stable, even in the face of constant v8 upgrading. That already exists, it's called nan: https://github.com/nodejs/nan
    comment by M2Ys4U · 2015-10-30 · in Node.js 5.0 Released
  9. …Native Abstractions for Node.js ) to help Node plugin maintainers. https://github.com/jxcore/jxcore https://github.com/rvagg/nan
    comment by cpeterso · 2015-04-03 · in Io.js community thoughts on reconciliation
  10. …Vagg has a project called NAN[0] to try and allow node modules to compile across node versions. [0] https://github.com/rvagg/nan
    comment by LukeB_UK · 2015-02-07 · in Node v0.12.0 (Stable)
  11. …Abstractions for Node.js"), was created to improve API compatibility for Node binary addons: https://github.com/rvagg/nan
    comment by cpeterso · 2015-02-05 · in Introducing node-firefox
  12. …is a compatibility layer to assist with making these modules work across different V8 versions: https://github.com/rvagg/nan
    comment by ivank · 2015-01-14 · in Io.js 1.0.0