The library allows to create native C++ addons for Node.js version 0.11 and above, and io.js version 1.0.
See Addons documentation for reference.
Node.js native addons uses node-gyp(https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp)
build tool to make them with C++ compiler.
This library is published as an NPM package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/v8pp and maybe used as an addon dependency in a way similar to NAN.
To use v8pp in a native Node.js addon append it as a dependency in the addon
package.json file:
{
"dependencies": {
"v8pp": "^1.0"
}
}
This library uses C++11 with exceptions which should be enabled by overriding
C++ compiler flags in bindings.gyp file:
{
'targets':
[
{
'target_name': 'addon',
'cflags_cc': ['-std=c++11', '-fexceptions'],
'msvs_settings': { 'VCCLCompilerTool': { 'ExceptionHandling': 1 } },
'xcode_settings': { 'GCC_ENABLE_CPP_EXCEPTIONS': 'YES' },
'defines!': ['V8_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS=1'],
'include_dirs': [ '<!(node -e require(\'v8pp\'))'],
'sources': ['hello.cc'],
}
]
}
Here is a side-by-side difference between Node and v8pp in amount of C++ code required to implement similar addons: https://github.com/pmed/v8pp/commit/34c6344bdb1bdf7f0b46db6ea15c8ddd20ac3824?diff=split