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Noze.io is pretty similar to Node.js. You can import fs, http, net, etc and most functions should be named the same like in Node.js. There is concat, nextTick and console.log. It is, however, not exactly the same. A few key differences:

• Modules are named similar but work a little different
  • they are neither objects nor functions
  • you don’t require them, but import them
  • you can’t rename them (ala let blub = require('blob'))
  • they do not carry resources
  • they have no __dirname
  • you cannot require arbitrary JSON files (read them via jsonfile.readFile etc.)
• Get used to trailing closures, just attach a block to an event (stream.onReadable { ... }, not stream.on('readable', function() { }))
• Noze.io only implements Node v3 streams, that is: the readable event and the matching read() method. The old-style data events are not available.
• Swift uses ARC while Node.js has a GC. You can mostly ignore that, but once your code gets more complex you need to consider retain cycles and such.
• Noze.io streams are typed and always work in batches. In Node.js only byte streams process batches, the Node.js “object-mode” is one-object-at-a-time.
• Being typed, a ‘byte’ (UInt8) stream and a Character or String stream are different things. Hence no encoding parameters and such. If you have a byte stream but you want to work with chars, pipe it through utf8 or readlines (e.g. stdin | readlines).
• Noze.io overloads the pipe | operator (this is the only one), it is the same like the .pipe() method (which is also available).
• In Noze.io you can directly pipe from sequences into streams, like: allFetchedRecords | record2html | response

Examples

Node original:

fs.readFile('example_log.txt', function (err, logData) {
  if (err) { console.error("failed:", err); return; }
  console.log("got data:", logData);
});

The same in Noze.io:

fs.readFile("example_log.txt") { err, logData in
  if err { console.error("failed:", err); return }
  console.log("got data:", logData)
}