What is Highland.js?
It manages synchronous and asynchronous code easily, using nothing more than standard JavaScript and Node-like Streams. You may be familiar with Promises, EventEmitters and callbacks, but moving between them is far from seamless.
Highland.js is a tool in the Concurrency Frameworks category of a tech stack.
Highland.js is an open source tool with 3.4K GitHub stars and 146 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Highland.js's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Highland.js?
Developers
Highland.js Integrations
JavaScript, Node.js, WatermelonDB, Cycle.js, and Proppy are some of the popular tools that integrate with Highland.js. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with Highland.js.
Highland.js's Features
- Intended to work with node.js(or browserify) environment which is really nice
- No alien concepts(from JavaScript/Node perspective)
- Back-pressure
- The implementation is on top of Node streams which is really great idea
- Small footprint
Highland.js Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Highland.js?
Modernizr
It’s a collection of superfast tests or detects as we like to call them which run as your web page loads, then you can use the results to tailor the experience to the user. It tells you what HTML, CSS and JavaScript features the user’s browser has to offer.
Modernizr
It’s a collection of superfast tests or detects as we like to call them which run as your web page loads, then you can use the results to tailor the experience to the user. It tells you what HTML, CSS and JavaScript features the user’s browser has to offer.
Lodash
A JavaScript utility library delivering consistency, modularity, performance, & extras. It provides utility functions for common programming tasks using the functional programming paradigm.
fancybox
It is a tool that offers a nice and elegant way to add zooming functionality for images, html content and multi-media on your webpages. It is built on the top of the popular JavaScript framework jQuery and is both easy to implement and a snap to customize.
Moment.js
A javascript date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates.
