actors v0.0.1

Actors

Lots has been said about actors and message passing. I've been wondering how to do that easily both between processes and objects in the same process.

Synopsis

var actors = require('actors');
var server = actors.createConnection({ host: 'localhost'});

server.on('ready', function(){
    var shop = server.createActor('shop');
    var customer = server.createActor('customer');
    
    shop.on('message', function(message){
        if(message.reply){
            message.reply({cakes: 10})
        }
    })
    
    customer.on('ready', function(){
        customer.send('shop', { question: 'How many cakes are left?' }, function(reply){
            customer.send('shop', { order: reply.cakes })
        });
    });
});

Installation

npm install actors

Connection

The options on actors.createConnection are the same as for node-amqp

For more info check out the docs.