JSGI, or JavaScript Gateway Interface, is an

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between

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s and

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-based

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s and frameworks. It was inspired by the

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for

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and WSGI for Python and was one of the inspirations of PSGI for

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. is a

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of JSGI. It has been included in and further developed by the

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project.

JSGI packages

All these packages are for

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Low level

Q-IO
Promise-based I/O, includes JSGI based HTTP server and client
jsgi-node
Low level JSGI interface for Node.JS

Framework

These frameworks allow using

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with Q: * * The names are inspired by Sinatra.

References

External links

JSGI 0.3 specification
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