> "I've written a Dropbox-like tool in node.." @Matt I'd be interested in that, as I have to write a similar command-line tool for OS X. I was going to use watchr <https://github.com/bevry/watchr>which I've had success with in the past, but I will have to write the logic to mirror changes to a second (network-mounted) directory. It might help me to take a look at your implementation. Is it on Github?
On Thursday, February 7, 2013 7:22:00 PM UTC, Matt Sergeant wrote: > > It's not a great idea to do this in Node due to the UI requirements you > have. There's a couple of UI options out there for Node but none of them > are great, and none of them will give you access to the system tray (or > menu bar on Mac). > > I've written a Dropbox-like tool in node (for mirroring files on Hubdoc > locally) but it's command line only and I'd never give it to the public, > and I've only run it on a Mac. > > Having said that, there's no good tool out there for doing this in a nice > cross platform way. File notification even in Node is pretty busted in any > sort of cross platform manner (I'm not flaming - the docs say so). You may > as well write something that's platform specific. You might be able to > levarage libuv though. > > Matt. > > > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Alexey Petrushin > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> It seems node.js available on all major platforms (Mac, Unix, MS). >> >> I need to built very simple application for file synchronization (like >> dropbox or google drive) it should do three things: >> >> - One-click installation, so node.js should be be bundled with app (not >> required to be installed separately). >> - Show dialog and ask user to select directory and enter secure key (is >> there any cross-platform UI kits for Node.js, maybe using HTML/CSS to built >> such a simple form?). >> - Sit in tray (ability to use tray icon is nice but not required) watch >> selected directory for file changes and notify server. >> >> Is it a good idea to built such application with node? If it's not a good >> idea - what are other options? >> >> -- >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "nodejs" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
