How to Create C/C++ Addons in Node

Node.js is great for a lot of reasons, one of which is the speed in which you can build meaningful applications. However, as we all know, this comes at the price of performance (as compared to native code). To get around this, you can write your code to interface with faster code written in C or C++. All we need to do is let Node know where to find this code and how to interface with it. There are a few ways to solve this problem depending on what level of abstraction you want. We'll start with the lowest abstraction, which is the Node Addon.