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 147 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?
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
PHP
Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
