[BrianHammond]

.node files are "addons". See the following:

http://github.com/stevedekorte/vertex.js/blob/master/lib/Ver...

http://github.com/stevedekorte/vertex.js/tree/master/lib/Ver...

http://github.com/edvakf/node-tokyocabinet

http://nodejs.org/api.html#addons-289