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s and frameworks. It was inspired by the Rack for

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

JSGI packages

All these packages are for Node.js.

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

References

External links

JSGI 0.3 specification
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