[Suggestion] ref-libraries about awesome-nodejs

[sindresorhus]

Sure. I think it's enough to link to ref though. Can you do a pull request?

Just curious. How would you use ref to interact with header files? I'm very noob at this. Is this meant to be used with an FFI module?

[mifi]

You can't directly interact with .h-files, but you can make equivalents of c data structures and pointers in javascript. It can be useful when you want to parse/generate data according to a proprietary binary protocol, maybe over the network or through ioctl-calls. In my case I am trying to make a node module for parsing OSX's com.apple.network.statistics ioctl response.
fs.read method returns a Buffer which can be described by structs defined here:
http://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-3247.10.11/bsd/net/ntstat.h

ref is actually being used by node-ffi too :)

Which category should I put it under? Parsing? Misc?

[sindresorhus]

Parsing

[mifi]

See #582