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Express CDN, deliver optimized and CDN-hosted assets in Node.js

Shown by niftylettuce on Jul 4, 2012. Click the card to turn it over.

41points

15comments

#574of 1,677 in 2012

Top 35%of 2012 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

4 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score +0.10.

Idea: 3 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against

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Exactly what commenters were looking for
From 2 comments
- This is exactly what I was looking for but couldn't find, so I was resigned into building something like this over a weekend sometime. Looks like I'll be testing this library out…
  mathrawka on HN
- Awesome. I'm working on a project right now and was close to writing this myself.
  jameswyse on HN
Amazing project
From 1 comment
- This is amazing. Nice job niftylettuce.
  robbiet480 on HN

Only supports Amazon CloudFront for CDN hosting
From 1 comment
- It's a shame that "CDN-Hosted" means only "Amazon CloudFront hosted".
  jahewson on HN
No tests included
From 1 comment
- No offense but even after some years still most npm don't come with any tests. Is that considered normal or to hard to do with the current javascript test libraries?
  rmoriz on HN

Add MaxCDN and Rackspace support
From 1 comment
- thx for suggestion, added to lazyweb requests planned on adding MaxCDN and Rackspace support
  niftylettuce on HN
Add tests
From 2 comments
- added tests to lazyweb requests, thx pull requests welcome
  niftylettuce on HN
- built in 2 days, would love help with the lazywebs such as adding tests and more CDN hosts
  niftylettuce on HN
Split each CDN service into add-on packages
From 1 comment
- I would separate each service into an add-on package, eg: 'express-cdn-rackspace'
  jameswyse on HN
Replace url() calls inside Stylus
From 1 comment
- Replacing url() calls inside stylus is pretty high on my requirements, If I've got some time I'll work on that. Though perhaps that would be better implemented as a stylus…
  jameswyse on HN

Can image optimizers run on the application server without slowing it down?
From 1 comment
- Can you run image optimizers on your application server? Would that slow down everything else?
  KaoruAoiShiho on HN
Why most npm packages lack tests
From 1 comment
- No offense but even after some years still most npm don't come with any tests. Is that considered normal or to hard to do with the current javascript test libraries?
  rmoriz on HN

A connect middleware by qzaidi (magickwand)
From 1 comment
- I wrote something similar, a connect middleware, but not as feature rich as this one. https://github.com/qzaidi/magickwand/blob/master/examples/cdn.js I guess there would be…
  mqzaidi on HN