gcloud-node - a Google Cloud Platform Client Library for Node.js

SEP 17, 2014

This post originally appeared on the Google Cloud Platform blog

Today we are announcing a new category of client libraries that has been built specifically for Google Cloud Platform. The very first library, gcloud-node, is idiomatic and intuitive for Node.js developers. With today’s release, you can begin integrating Cloud Datastore and Cloud Storage into your Node.js applications, with more Cloud Platform APIs and programming languages planned. The easiest way to get started is by installing the gcloud package using npm:

$ npm install gcloud

With gcloud installed, your Node.js code is simpler to write, easier to read, and cleaner to integrate with your existing Node.js codebase. Take a look at the code required to retrieve entities from Datastore:

var gcloud = require('gcloud');

      var dataset = new gcloud.datastore.Dataset({
      projectId: 'my-project',
      keyFilename: '/path/to/keyfile.json' // Details at
      //https://github.com/googlecloudplatform/gcloud-node#README
      });

      dataset.get(dataset.key('Product', 123), function(err, entity) {
      console.log(err, entity);
      });

gcloud is open-sourced on Github; check out the code, file issues and contribute a PR - contributors are welcome. Got questions? Post them on StackOverflow with the [gcloud-node] tag. Learn more about the Client Library for Node.js at http://googlecloudplatform.github.io/gcloud-node/ and try gcloud-node today.

Posted by JJ Geewax, Software Engineer

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