dannliuu / activetick-addon

activetick.com C++ bindings for node.js

Node package for millisecond-precision streaming financial data & historical data using activetick.com

-- C++ node extension that links against CppSDK. Uses Google Protobuf to structure data interchange between languages. As such it has a very small node footprint and is extremely flexible. Protocol Buffer could be used to interchange to any language or protocol. Also fast.

-- Uses libuv async_send() to interrupt Node.js runtime only as needed and immediately on message frames

-- Requires activetick.com subscription

-- Requires Node 0.12.7 - OS X or Ubuntu Linux

OS X

• brew install protobuf pkg-config

UBUNTU LINUX

• sudo apt-get install libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler pkg-config

To-Do

• Support every API method
• Memory Management
  • CPP: delete *pointer;
• Usage documentation
• Make node-version independent (using nan)