WoT.js

Overview

wot.js (basque): small, tiny.

wot.js is a small and powerful JavaScript runtime. It's built on the shoulders of giants: it uses [QuickJS] as its JavaScript engine and [libuv] as the platform layer.

Browser-like APIs

• Console API
• URL & URLSearchParams
• TextEncoder / TextDecoder APIs
• EventTarget / Event / CustomEvent
• fetch (including AbortController)
• Performance API
• Worker API
• Crypto API

Custom features

• TCP and UDP sockets
• TTY handles
• Unix sockets / named pipes
• Timers
• Signals
• File operations
• Event loop
• High-resolution time
• Miscellaneous utility functions
• Worker threads
• Child processes
• DNS (getaddrinfo)

Other extras:

• path module
• mqtt module
• serial module
• BigFloat and BigDecimal extensions

Supported platforms

• GNU/Linux

Building

[CMake] is necessary.

# Get the code
git clone https://www.github.com/czanyou/wotjs-core.git
cd wotjs-core

# Compile it!
make build

# Run the REPL
./build/tjs

Thanks

wot.js stands on shoulders of giants. It wouldn't be what it is today without these libraries:

• [QuickJS]: JavaScript engine
• [libuv]: platform abstraction layer

In addition, wot.js has these [contributors] to thank for their help.

[QuickJS]: `https://bellard.org/quickjs/`
[libuv]: `https://libuv.org/`
[CMake]: `https://cmake.org/`
[txiki.js]: `https://github.com/saghul/txiki.js/graphs/contributors`