I’m loving node JS and, coming from a Java background, am interested in even trying it out for some projects where node may seem a bit of a stretch, such as a search engine project.
One thing I’ve been a bit confused by is it seems JavaScript is lacking traditional data structures, for example a set, which has a precise definition extending even beyond computer science as it has been used in mathematics before computers existed (basically a list that doesn’t allow duplicates). It seems when using node JS there is no library like Java.util that has these basic data types that I have grown accustomed to, I realize I could create them myself but this just adds more overhead to the project.
Are there any libs for node (or JavaScript in general) that address this? I think node has a lot of potential to replace the use of a language like Java for a lot of projects as it has so many advantages in terms of development speed, but having to recreate data structures that are taken for granted in a more mature platform could be too much overhead for a small project.
I apologize if there are other questions like this, however I spent some time searching and didn’t come up with much.
Have you looked into Underscore.js? http://underscorejs.org/
It’s not a one to one with java.util but it provides a bunch of commonly needed utility functions.