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Not only is this article rubbish because there is little to no content and it is taken directly from the NowJS site, but the part about dnode is completely fals
by chapel 16y ago
Not only is this article rubbish because there is little to no content and it is taken directly from the NowJS site, but the part about dnode is completely false.
> DNode is another RPC system for Node.js. "NowJS is a higher-level interface than DNode," our own Pete Warden explains. "It offers an abstraction layer to make calling remote functions very simple without worrying about ports or sockets."
Pete Warden has no idea what he is talking about, both NowJS and dnode are built on top of socket.io which abstracts the sockets/ports part and makes it very much plug and play. Not only that they interface at the same level, the major difference is in how the functions are set and called on either end. NowJS focuses on explicit return statements where as dnode uses callbacks.
Why is this on the front page?
For more information about NowJS and dnode from their creators comments on another submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2316079 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2316079