What terminal output tools are there for being able to layout text output for status boxes and cool things like that?

shush, blessed is the main one

also look at ink

Anything that is a little more light-weight?

darkseid_: oh yeah she'll be fine, the bigger problem is learning Dutch, honestly

Dutch people will refuse to speak Dutch to you and auto-switch to English

lots of european countries do that, it's super annoying

hmm, would've thought the folks at ko-fi would've registered kofi.com and ko.fi

lol that reminds me, my dad got invited to a wedding in Tanzania so naturally, as one does, he started to teach himself Swahili, and I'm like.. go dad, way to show me what I should be like in my 60's!

'course, then covid happened and he couldn't go

actually, I was also invited, but I got a late start on the Swahili train so I hadn't learned much by the time it was called off

not that it would have been necessary to learn it; I just thought it was a fun idea

joepie91: that's actually not as bad as when you get competent enough in a language for people to think you're much more fluent than you are and start talking really fast at you haha

hello evryone, is the one way to handle any request in nodejs like one stack 1 by 1 and with one internal between them like 1 minute

wutthewut

...maybe an accidental paste? half a message for us, another half for a mystery channel that I'm going to assume involves competitive tetris

LOL

With fs.createReadStream(), do I need to add .on, .pipe, etc.. in the same tick? Or can I use a function to return a fs.createReadStream?

I am having issues with using a function which has fs.createReadStream() in it, I get an error that pipe and on doesn't exist.

createReadStream(...).on is not a function

Actually, nm, the function was an async function :/

wyoung: to answer your first question anyway, though, the stream should start paused like any read stream. it won't start emitting until you either invoke .pipe or start listening for the data event

jaawerth: Cheers

hey

is webrtc at a realistic stage for webrtc to power a social network?

similar to gnutella from web

hi all

freenode.autojoin = "##typescript,##javascript,#reactjs,#node.js"

we are not your IRC client's config file ;)

I realized that haha

Forgot to prefix with command

:)

who knows streams profoundly?

cek: I know enough about them to thoroughly dislike them (the implementation of them in Node, that is), does that count? :P

I don't get why no data is buffered when there's no `data` or `readable` attached on socket

it looks like it's sending a tcp fin to sending party

cek: data *should* be buffered up to the highwatermark, after which it will pause the upstream

(if any)

yeah, but it doesn't happen over here. wtf

I don't recall if there's anything specific to sockets

how are you determining that it doesn't?

.readableLength is 0 and no `readable` event triggered after data's been sent and `readable` handler attached

it looks like i have to listen to `data` otherwise it would drop shit

EddyKid: technologically sure. the reason it'll never happen is because the critical mass you need to even keep it alive is much larger than the number of people needed to make it compelling as a product, and the latter is hard enough

cek: sorry, I got distracted by something else

cek: have you verified that nothing else has quietly attached a `data` handler?

which would put it into flowing mode, and I think that might also prevent `readable` events from firing

Anyone have a preferred slugification library before i go auditing all the garbage i'm sure is out there?

var print = console.log.bind(console, '>') <-- lol people make me chuckle

`title.split(' ').slice(0, 6).map(word => word.replace(/\W+/g, '')).join('-')` :D

Ah yes, what could possibly go wrong with this implementation

absolutely nothing, it's the pinnacle of perfection

certainly not anything pesky like... unicode lol

n> 'this 👍 💝💝 💩 !@#sdf=܁ ؟Ķ'.split(' ').slice(0, 6).map(word => word.replace(/\W+/g, '')).join('-');

(okay) 'this----sdf-'

yeah, maybe not perfect

Also, I wish grabbing various forms of letters was like, a *lot* easier than it is.

forms?

you can use "u" flag

Like that "Ķ"

It'd be nice to be able to do something like hold shift-capslock and a virtual keyboard would pop-up showing accent variations and stuff.

zsoc: first decision to make is whether you want to transliterate emoji

yeah i don't, this isn't all that complicated tbh

samsch: that's called a "compose key"

or well

you can have that attached to a compose key :P

samsch: ah, well... if it's a character set that you regularly have to input, then there's usually a pretty easy way to do so if you use the native OS implementation of that input method... in my experience anyway

samsch: "IME"! that's the term

IME = input method editor... i guess i only called it an IM lol

僕はバカです >.>

I swear I've seen a graphical unicode IME for Linux at some point

but I can't find it now

Ah yes, the obvious solution of writing C++ code to build up your own support tedyin.com/posts/a-brief-intro-to-linux-input-method-framework

samsch: IMEs seem to be one of those topics that people either don't talk about at all, or REALLLLLY like to talk about :)

Ok, so I enabled capslock as a compose key, but it seems that you still run blind until you learn the compositions

samsch: yeah hence mentioning a graphical IME

Nothing really coming up searching around, and really gotta get back to more productive stuff >_> I think my actual complaint is that this stuff doesn't exist by default in all systems.

Happy Friday! ... Stream question: What's the proper way to handle piping to temporary destinations? I'm tailing a log file into PostgreSQL using `pg-copy-streams` from a file stream that is piped into fast-csv/format before being piped into a `pg-copy-streams` that'll be used for 30 seconds before flushing to db. I try to .pause() .unpipe() .pipe() .resume() but no more data flows from the filestream.

pringlescan: "temporary destinations" as in, the destination needs to be changed every once in a while?

I'm not sure if I need a pipeline or to manually resume the `filestream` that pipes into the `csv` stream ... in other words, does unpiping/pausing a downstream stream bubble up to the source stream?

@joepie91: exactly!

pringlescan: then simply unpiping and re-piping should be sufficient

if there are no more listeners on a stream, then it should pause

and resume once a listener is available again

It's not working as expected, I have an interval that outputs processed lines every 30 seconds and after the first unpipe/pipe I don't get anymore lines (with and without explicit pauses, I had the manual open and it said I didn't need those)

"should" everywhere, because Node streams tend to be a mess :)

actually, it's filestream->binary split->csv writer->[[ temporary postgres/ many postgres over time]]

@joepie91: that's how I understood the documentation, now I'm trying to figure out what's stuck/stopped

`end` is being emitted by the file stream... so I guess I'm just hitting the end of the file >_< ... naturally once I add all the debug logging and hop on IRC I figure things out, I guess I need to be tailing

pringlescan: oh, yeah, end-of-streams will mess things up

tail is a lot faster at skipping lines than I am, I can skip at 30k lines a second, maybe I'll just use child process to invoke tail and pipe that instead of using createFileStream --- I was originally using `pv` and stdin but switch to files for simplicity

I don't recall the specifics but I've seen code explicitly intercept end-of-stream events before for cases like this

also, I'd recommend not invoking child processes at all unless there's no other way to solve your problem (and even then, only with execFile/spawn, not exec)

there's a lot of security-related caveats to it

hey is there a way to jump into a shell for an already running node process

dimino, if you launched it with --inspect, then you could connect to it with chrome dev tools

or the process could provide a repl over tcp or whatever

hm I dont think I did that... oh well

Does anyone know the name of the tool which generated these screenshots? Marak/faker.js #1040

Marak: npmjs.com/package/webpack-bundle-analyzer

folks, we've been troubleshooting this error for 6 hours and we're at a lost i.imgur.com/Pk8fgmU.png is it a redherring?

Thank you @ljharb Good to see you in here

Is Sail.js still the best node framework?

merpnderp: hm? it never was a good option

joepie91: boss is looking to speed up development and is looking for headless CMS's.

joepie91: have any alternatives?

but Sails isn't a headless CMS?

this seems like an ill-defined question

like, if you want an off-the-shelf headless CMS, then pick, well, a headless CMS, something that runs as-is

not a monolithic framework

if you want a custom system, then make use of well-scoped single-responsibility libraries and good code quality to speed up development, as usual

in neither case is a monolithic framework the answer

What's the difference between a headless CMS and something like Rails/Sails?

I can't tell the difference.

one is a stand-alone service that you build something against as if it were a third-party API, the other is a generic framework that you build a custom application with

typically anyway

joepie91: know of any good headless CMS's we could customatize and add node hooks in?

Because I just showed my boss Sails.js, and he just installed it and is loving it.

I don't see how Sails doesn't do what a headless CMS does.

It autogenerates and API against your database, and you don't have to use their front end.

Looks like sails at least uses sessions, so that's *something*

Stores the sessions in-memory in dev though, which is kinda bleh

What are some of the performance metrics that you normally measure on serverside?