libkernel
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libkernel is a node module for web developers that would like to use the Skynet kernel in their applications, or would like to build modules for the Skynet kernel. It contains a bunch of helper functions and syntax sugar for interacting with the kernel itself, and it also contains a bunch of functions for dealing with Skynet objects such as skylinks.
libkernel for the time being should be considered highly unstable - there is ongoing discussion about whether the scope of libkernel is too broad and whether some of the Skynet related functions should be split out into their own libraries. Methods you depend on today may be gone or have altered APIs tomorrow, we hope to have libkernel in a stable place within the next 2-3 weeks.
A particular quirk of libkernel is that errors are always of the type string | null rather than being of type Error. This is because libkernel is
frequently used in webworkers and other settings where errors need to be
serialized and send over postMessage, and the Error type is generally not
suitable for this. We therefore use strings everywhere as errors, to ensure
that libkernel can be used in all relevant places.
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helper library to interact with skynet and the skynet kernel
The npm package libkernel receives a total of 10 weekly downloads. As such, libkernel popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that libkernel demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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