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Show HN: Express CDN, deliver optimized and CDN-hosted assets in Node.js

41 points by niftylettuce 14y ago

niftylettuce 14y ago
built in 2 days, would love help with the lazywebs such as adding tests and more CDN hosts
- jameswyse 14y ago
  Replacing url() calls inside stylus is pretty high on my requirements, If I've got some time I'll work on that. Though perhaps that would be better implemented as a stylus function, like: http://learnboost.github.com/stylus/docs/functions.url.html http://learnboost.github.com/stylus/docs/functions.url.html
jameswyse 14y ago
Awesome. I'm working on a project right now and was close to writing this myself.
- mqzaidi 14y ago
  I wrote something similar, a connect middleware, but not as feature rich as this one. https://github.com/qzaidi/magickwand/blob/master/examples/cdn.js https://github.com/qzaidi/magickwand/blob/master/examples/cd... I guess there would be several things I can pick up from here.
mathrawka 14y ago
This is exactly what I was looking for but couldn't find, so I was resigned into building something like this over a weekend sometime. Looks like I'll be testing this library out in my production setup instead this weekend :D
robbiet480 14y ago
This is amazing. Nice job niftylettuce.
- niftylettuce 14y ago
  \o thx Robbie
rmoriz 14y ago
No offense but even after some years still most npm don't come with any tests. Is that considered normal or to hard to do with the current javascript test libraries?
- niftylettuce 14y ago
  added tests to lazyweb requests, thx pull requests welcome
jahewson 14y ago
It's a shame that "CDN-Hosted" means only "Amazon CloudFront hosted".
- niftylettuce 14y ago
  thx for suggestion, added to lazyweb requests planned on adding MaxCDN and Rackspace support
  - jameswyse 14y ago
    I would separate each service into an add-on package, eg: 'express-cdn-rackspace'
    - niftylettuce 14y ago
      similar to passport, good idea
    - deleted 14y ago
      [deleted]
  - krmmalik 14y ago
    I'm really looking forward to the MaxCDN support, as our company uses it for most of our projects. Currently we've been manually doing all the optimisations and uploading and whatnot. Though to be fair, we're not using Node.js for any of our existing projects, but i started a new project this week using Node.js and something like this would be a godsend when it comes to scaling the application up. Thanks for creating this.
KaoruAoiShiho 14y ago
Can you run image optimizers on your application server? Would that slow down everything else?

41 points by niftylettuce 14y ago

niftylettuce 14y ago

built in 2 days, would love help with the lazywebs such as adding tests and more CDN hosts

jameswyse 14y ago
Replacing url() calls inside stylus is pretty high on my requirements, If I've got some time I'll work on that. Though perhaps that would be better implemented as a stylus function, like: http://learnboost.github.com/stylus/docs/functions.url.html http://learnboost.github.com/stylus/docs/functions.url.html

jameswyse 14y ago

Awesome. I'm working on a project right now and was close to writing this myself.

mqzaidi 14y ago
I wrote something similar, a connect middleware, but not as feature rich as this one. https://github.com/qzaidi/magickwand/blob/master/examples/cdn.js https://github.com/qzaidi/magickwand/blob/master/examples/cd... I guess there would be several things I can pick up from here.

mathrawka 14y ago

This is exactly what I was looking for but couldn't find, so I was resigned into building something like this over a weekend sometime. Looks like I'll be testing this library out in my production setup instead this weekend :D

robbiet480 14y ago

This is amazing. Nice job niftylettuce.

niftylettuce 14y ago
\o thx Robbie

rmoriz 14y ago

No offense but even after some years still most npm don't come with any tests. Is that considered normal or to hard to do with the current javascript test libraries?

niftylettuce 14y ago
added tests to lazyweb requests, thx pull requests welcome

jahewson 14y ago

It's a shame that "CDN-Hosted" means only "Amazon CloudFront hosted".

niftylettuce 14y ago
thx for suggestion, added to lazyweb requests planned on adding MaxCDN and Rackspace support
- jameswyse 14y ago
  I would separate each service into an add-on package, eg: 'express-cdn-rackspace'
  - niftylettuce 14y ago
    similar to passport, good idea
  - deleted 14y ago
    [deleted]
- krmmalik 14y ago
  I'm really looking forward to the MaxCDN support, as our company uses it for most of our projects. Currently we've been manually doing all the optimisations and uploading and whatnot. Though to be fair, we're not using Node.js for any of our existing projects, but i started a new project this week using Node.js and something like this would be a godsend when it comes to scaling the application up. Thanks for creating this.

KaoruAoiShiho 14y ago

Can you run image optimizers on your application server? Would that slow down everything else?