node-csv VS node-ffi-napi

Compare node-csv vs node-ffi-napi and see what are their differences.

node-csv

Full featured CSV parser with simple api and tested against large datasets. (by adaltas)

node-ffi-napi

A foreign function interface (FFI) for Node.js, N-API style (by node-ffi-napi)
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0.9% 1.9%
8.4 0.0
14 days ago 16 days ago
CoffeeScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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node-csv

Posts with mentions or reviews of node-csv. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-26.

node-ffi-napi

Posts with mentions or reviews of node-ffi-napi. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-26.
  • The unexpected return of JavaScript for Automation
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2021
    I actually came from AutoHotKey as well, specifically for the cross platform support!

    I've found the dev experience with nut.js to be worlds ahead of AutoHotKey as well. You get to use a real programming language with proper modules, data structures, first-class functions, asynchrony, and have access to a vast ecosystem of third party libraries and tooling.

    Some Windows specific APIs are easier to work with on AHK due to the collection of built-in functions specifically tailored for automation, but everything AHK is still possible with nut.js since you're just writing a node.js script and have access to libraries like https://github.com/node-ffi-napi/node-ffi-napi that can call native system libraries, with a bit more work involved.

  • NPM package ‘ua-parser-JS’ with more than 7M weekly download is compromised
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Oct 2021
    > check out the Web X-Ray repo <https://github.com/mozilla/goggles.mozilla.org/>.

    Thanks for example. Peeking a bit under the hood, it appears to be due to transitive dependencies referencing github urls (and transient ones at that) instead of semver, which admittedly is neither standard nor good practice...

    FWIW, simply removing `"grunt-contrib-jshint": "~0.4.3",` from package.json and related jshint-related code from Gruntfile was sufficient to get `npm install` to complete successfully. The debugging just took me a few minutes grepping package-lock.json for the 404 URL in question (https://github.com/ariya/esprima/tarball/master) and tracing that back to a top-level dependency via recursively grepping for dependent packages. I imagine that upgrading relevant dependencies might also do the trick, seeing as jshint no longer depends on esprima[0].

    I'm not sure how representative this particular case is to the sort of issues you run into, but I'll tell that reproducibility issues can get a lot worse in ways that committing deps doesn't help (for example, issues like this one[1] are nasty to narrow down).

    But assuming that installation in your link just happens to have a simple fix and that others are not as forgiving, how is committing node_modules supposed to help here if you're saying you can't even get it to a working state in the first place? DO you own the repo in order to be able to make the change? Or are you mostly just saying that hindsight is 20-20?

    [0] https://github.com/jshint/jshint/blob/master/package.json#L4...

    [1] https://github.com/node-ffi-napi/node-ffi-napi/issues/143

What are some alternatives?

When comparing node-csv and node-ffi-napi you can also consider the following projects:

libnut - An Node-API addon for desktop automation

JSHint - JSHint is a tool that helps to detect errors and potential problems in your JavaScript code

npm-package-repro

node-jxa - Use your favorite node.js modules (and JS editor) for your Javascript OSX automation scripts

deno - A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.

pnpm - Fast, disk space efficient package manager

rfcs - Public change requests/proposals & ideation

Wintersmith - A flexible static site generator

esprima - ECMAScript parsing infrastructure for multipurpose analysis

handlebars-helpers - 188 handlebars helpers in ~20 categories. Can be used with Assemble, Ghost, YUI, express.js etc.