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Brian Hulette commented on ARROW-541: ------------------------------------- I ported my original implementation over to TypeScript and opened a PR that includes it: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/358 Its still pretty rough around the edges, but it does add the ability to read the arrow file format in the browser and with Node. > [JS] Implement JavaScript-compatible implementation > --------------------------------------------------- > > Key: ARROW-541 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-541 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Wes McKinney > > 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/ -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)