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!!!