nyks

nyks provide a set of "missing" stuffs in nodejs basic api. All those functions will eventually end up in the official API :-).

Natives

child_process

• require('child_process').exec_window(cmd, args, callback);

child_process.exec equivalent for windowed applications.

Date

• Date.now() Return current unix timestamp, in seconds, as float

fs

• require('fs').deleteFolderRecursive(path); Recursive folder deletion

• require('fs').md5File(file_path, callback)

• require('fs').md5FileSync(file_path) Return md5 checksum of a file

• require('fs').filesizeSync(path); Filesize sync

• require('fs').tmppath (ext) Return a unique file path in OS temp dir

• require('fs').renameCross(src, dest, callback) Rename src to dest (even on cross devices)

http

• require('http').downloadFile(url, file_path, callback) Download a remote file to a local file

• require('http').json(url, callback) Fetch a remote JSON object

Natives

Object

• Object.sort(obj, keys) Return a new object based on obj's existings keys
• Object.column(obj, column_key, index_key) Column mode of obj (see http://php.net/manual/fr/function.array-column.php)

Buffer

• Buffer.prototype.indexOf(byte) Binary search of byte Return -1 if not found

Array

• Array.prototype.diff(array) Exclude one array from another

String

• String.prototype.startsWith(str) Return boolean

• String.prototype.endsWith(str) Return boolean

• String.prototype.replaces(dict) Replace key => value in current string

• String.prototype.rreplaces(dict) Recursive (iterative) replaces

• String.prototype.stripEnd(str) Return trimmed string of "str" if present (else, leave untouched)

zero_functions

• bool(val) Return boolean value of *val with "f", "false", "n" and "no" casted as "false" (case insensitive)

• guid() Return a guid