Node.py

nodepy is a CPython platform heavily inspired by Node.js for building reproducible and easily distributable applications. While it provides its own package manager nppm (similar to npm), re-using existing standard Python modules from PyPI is highly encouraged.

Additional Links

• Documentation
• Changelog

Motivation

Python's Import-mechanism is very limited and hardly customizable, which can lead to problems in pluggable environments such as plugin infrastructures. When multiple components provide their own version of a Python module, it can lead to clashes in sys.modules and have one component potentially import the wrong module. Node.js" require() solves this very elegantly, as it is always first resolved based on the location of the file that uses it. Just like Node.js' has its node_modules/ directory, Node.py resolved requirements in the nearest nodepy_modules/ directory.

nppm is an npm-inspired package manager for Node.py packages.

Features

• Manage project dependencies in a package.json file
• Package manager with capabilities to install Node.py and Python modules
• require() makes tracking the origin of a dependency more clear and enables an arbitrary project structure
• Run-time extensions (eg. source code preprocessors)

Requirements

• Python 2.7.x, 3.3+
• Pip 8.0.0+
• Wheel 0.29.0+ (for correct Pip installations with --prefix)
• Pygments (optional, for colorised exception tracebacks)
• Colorama (optional, for colorised output on Windows)

Installation

pip install node.py

Building the Documentation

Install yassg, the build the documentation.

$ nppm install -g git+https://github.com/NiklasRosenstein/yassg.git
$ cd docs
$ yassg