This is exactly why I love SocketStream. The extensibility of it is great. I can use one of the several thousand existing node modules/libraries and install them easily via NPM. In addition, development has been active and Owen (the lead dev) is extremely responsive to any issues on the GitHub repo.

He recently demo'd SS at LXJS 2012 - worth watching IMO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOS1lpWXphs