When I discovered a three-day-old
edit in the Node wiki, I clicked on the hyperlink given there and got
to the site-directory “ The Node Toolbox ” , which is quite useful. As I understood right away, the purpose of this site is to categorize (or tag) all those javascript packages for Node that are contained in the package manager
npm directory. Thus, this site can be a valuable starting point for finding packages for Node according to their intended purpose. (In the open source world, this tool, like others before it, allows an attentive person not to reinvent
a bicycle by accident.)
At the top of the site “The Node Toolbox” there is a “hot ten” of the most recent packages and a dozen of the most used packages (according to the number of dependencies of other packages
on them) - in general, this tool is less useful and innovative than the list of categories, because these ratings and they are already visible
on search.npmjs.org (moreover, there are fifteen packages in the ratings,
and “The Node Toolbox” has only ten).
Looking more or less closely at these ratings over the past few months has led me to the impression (perhaps wrong: I don’t lead to
archive files , but rely on memory) about the gradual increase in popularity of the
async package, which is now among the ten most used by It is useful in that it contains two dozen functions that seriously simplify the integration of calls to asynchronous functions, the creation of larger fragments of algorithms. I can not fail to note that the observed popularity is completely deserved by the async package. There is reason to think of some of the functions of the async package (and a noticeably large part of them) as a kind of asynchronous analogue of the corresponding
underscore functions used in batch processing collections (that is, arrays
and objects) - and yet the same rating calls the underscore package most used in other packages for Node. It is logical that its asynchronous analog is popular.
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On Twitter, the site
“The Node Toolbox” corresponds to twitter
@ nodetoolbox , which is far from hyperactivity. Basically, news about the glitches and innovations of the site, and even answers to the replicas of other microblogging.