JaxNode Micro Presentations

Build Your Own Tools

Most Common Uses

• Node is used for building Web, services, Mobile, Desktop and tooling
• NPM CLI, Web Pack, Bower just a few examples
• Visual Studio installs Node.js for this reason

NPM CLI

• Use NPM to publish packages
• bin property defines command line
• Commander package for defining commands

var getNextMeeting = require('./lib');
var program = require('commander');

program
	.version(pkg.version)
	.option('-d, --details', 'More details about the meetup')
	.option('-m, --map', 'Google Map to Meetup location')
	.option('-l, --link', 'Open the home page url')
	.option('-a, --address', 'Show the venue address')
	.option('-e, --easteregg', 'Tell you friends to \'jnn -e\' LoL!')
	.parse(process.argv);

if (program.address) {
    console.log('either -d or --details used as argument');
}

Aviation Weather

FAA NOAA Web Services

• aviationweather.gov has XML Rest based
• avwx.rest is REST based JSON, YAML tool

No METAR CLI?

• While their where web services, no CLI
• NPM has a METAR TAF parsing package
• Introduction METAR CLI!!!

DEMO

Questions?