node-ffi

GitHub describes it as Node.js Foreign Function Interface. The repository metadata lists JavaScript as its primary language. The metadata lists the MIT license. This article stays within the project description and details documented in the GitHub repository README.

GitHub describes it as Node.js Foreign Function Interface. The repository metadata lists JavaScript as its primary language. The metadata lists the MIT license. The README describes the project this way: node-ffi is a Node.js addon for loading and calling dynamic libraries using pure JavaScript. It can be used to create bindings to native libraries without writing any C++ code.

The README section "Node.js Foreign Function Interface" states: It also simplifies the augmentation of node.js with C code as it takes care of handling the translation of types across JavaScript and C, which can add reams of boilerplate code to your otherwise simple C. See the example/factorial for an example of this use case.

The README section "Node.js Foreign Function Interface" states: WARNING : node-ffi assumes you know what you're doing. You can pretty easily create situations where you will segfault the interpreter and unless you've got C debugger skills, you probably won't know what's going on.

The README section "Node.js Foreign Function Interface" states: Linux, OS X, Windows, or Solaris. libffi comes bundled with node-ffi; it does not need to be installed on your system. The current version is tested to run on node v0.6, v0.8, v0.9 and v0.10.

The repository README is the source for this review. It does not replace a local installation or an independent test.

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