Edgetpu: Node.js API?

[moeiscool]

I see the python API but where is Node.js? Where is C++? with that we could at least make one without much trouble.

Think of it this way. I develop a DIY NVR platform (https://shinobi.video) . If each person bought a coral that would be a serious spike in sales. Add Node.js API wrappers and you’ll see what I mean ;)

Jetson Nano is a computer but similar idea. Because they made it easy for me to vend my software I made it so they could sell a lot more units.

[Namburger]

@moeiscool Hey!
Thanks for the suggestion, I can put the nodejs API as a suggestion, but we do have a C++ API, matter fact, the python API is a wrapper around the C++. Here is the docs for the C++ api: https://coral.ai/docs/edgetpu/tflite-cpp/#run-an-inference

Note also: there are go-tflite what will also allow you to bind our library with go, I'm not sure how hard is it to use this as alternative to nodejs, but I think go has a very good backend webstack also :)

[moeiscool]

thank you :) i am going to play with this! If i make anything usable I'll report back and perhaps we (the community) can make it merge ready. Cheers!

[Namburger]

@moeiscool I've put this is as a feature request, if we decided to move forward, I'll keep you up to date :).
If you are interested in binding C++ to node, here is a standalone tflite object detection example in c++ (this should be a good start as it is much more simple than this repo): https://github.com/Namburger/edgetpu-detection-camera

[dermodmaster]

Please do not underrate this issue :heart: :)
NodeJS would be very awesome!

[mitchross]

@Namburger any update?

[Namburger]

Unfortunately, no :(
We just haven't got a chance to support other languages at this time as we're going through tons of refactoring and will have a new release soon

[mitchross]

@Namburger Can you share whats going on in this refactor?

[Namburger]

@mitchross Please take a look at libcoral and pycoral, we'll soon deprecate this repo. It won't affects you if you are using tflite_runtime, we've also released a newer version of libedgetpu and the compiler. Watch out for our release updates, there will be news soon.

Unfortunately, as much as I want nodejs supports to be a thing, we have prioritized other features and functionalities that couldn't fit this on our OKRs.