Subj : Getting started with JS addons to Sync
To   : Sam Alexander
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Jun 21 2017 10:42 am

  Re: Getting started with JS addons to Sync
  By: Sam Alexander to All on Tue Jun 20 2017 07:43 pm

 > Hi all.  I'd like to get more into coding with JS an Sync, but I have someq
 > uestions.  For starters I've been reading LOTS about node.js, so will this
 > work with Sync?

node.js is a completely different JS interpretter that runs in a different
model (event/asynchronous while Synchronet's JS engine, the Mozilla JavaScript
engine, runs code proceduraly).

That said, there's probably way to launch node.js via CGI or a native service,
but you wouldn't get any of the Synchronet object model.

 > Can JS with sync interact with the services?

Which services are you referring to?

 > I'd love to write
 > some add-ins that consume API services from other sites, but i'm not sure
 > what options are there. And what about OS operations like modifying files,
 > usrs,
 > processes, etc... this will be on Linux.

Look here: http://synchro.net/docs/js.html

 > And is there any MySQL support?

No, but someone did integrate SQlite once.

                                            digital man

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