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Dan Robinson commented on ARROW-541:
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I'm interested in contributing to a JS/Node implementation. Here's one I worked
on last year: https://github.com/danrobinson/jsarrow. It is probably out of
date with the spec and certainly the C++ implementation (with which it was
fairly tightly coupled), so I'd be fine starting from scratch if you or others
have a roadmap in mind, and maybe cannibalizing it for parts (like the C++
bindings).
+1 to TypeScript (another reason I would scrap most of that old repo).
> [JS] Implement JavaScript-compatible implementation
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>
> Key: ARROW-541
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-541
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Wes McKinney
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> I would really like to see an implementation of Arrow that is compatible with
> NodeJS and modern web browsers. This would enable streaming columnar data to
> the browser without an intermediate conversion to JSON -- I could imagine
> web-based data visualization systems would benefit substantially from this
> functionality.
> Because Google's Flatbuffers library has first-class JS support, this should
> be achievable. Carlos Scheidegger created a prototype implementation of the
> Feather file format (basically: mini-Arrow) last year:
> https://github.com/wesm/feather/tree/master/js
> This JIRA can be an umbrella issue for the JS implementation. As soon as we
> find interested contributors to work on this, we can create JIRAs and attach
> them to this issue until we reach a certain level of maturity.
> Without starting a bike shed discussion, I humbly request that the
> implementation be done in TypeScript https://www.typescriptlang.org/
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