Faiss: [Feature Request] Node-Gyp Bindings

[loretoparisi]

Summary

It would be worth to add a native node-gyp bindings as Spotify Annoy index does here https://github.com/jimkang/annoy-node

Platform

OS:

Faiss version:

Faiss compilation options:

Running on:

• [X] CPU
• [X] GPU

Interface:

• [ ] C++
• [ ] Python
• [X] Node.js

Reproduction instructions

[mdouze]

What is node-gyp?

[Enet4]

node-gyp is a tool for building Node.js addons. This feature request amounts to creating JavaScript bindings that would run on a Node.js runtime.

[beauby]

This is not on our roadmap but could possibly be supported by the community.

On Tue 26 Feb 2019 at 18:21, Eduardo Pinho [e-mail] wrote:

node-gyp https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp is a tool for building Node.js
addons https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v10.x/docs/api/addons.html. This
feature request amounts to creating JavaScript bindings that would run on a
Node.js runtime.

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[loretoparisi]

@beauby thank you, yes it good be an idea that someone could add a PR. Adding here that node-gyp is proven to not add too much overhead through the native binding, and the module will run fast as its native version. I'm using this approach not only for C++ bindings, like native Annoy, FastText, Hunspell, but also to bind whole Java (https://github.com/joeferner/node-java) to run ML pipelines like CoreNLP in Node.js etc.

[mdouze]

Javascript is supported as an interface language by SWIG, see
http://www.swig.org/Doc3.0/Javascript.html#Javascript
so the whole Faiss API can be exposed.

[mdouze]

I made a project. @loretoparisi do you want to give it a try?
https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss/projects/4

[loretoparisi]

@mdouze yes!

[beauby]

Closing, please reopen if you plan to work on this.

[loretoparisi]

@beauby thanks hopefully yes.

[gajus]

Is anyone available to pick this task up on freelance basis?

[Ierezell]

Sorry to necrobump this issue but has there been any advance ? I guess the only other solution was mentioned by @loretoparisi is to use annoy but faiss is really nice to use in python and I guess it would have the same sucess on node.