Imagine a world where you can use your favorite scripting language (JavaScript) in your terminal as a replacement for bash, zsh or fish.
JSSh or JavaScript Shell is a somewhat early approach to a REPL for JavaScript with the power to execute any executable in the path and more. It currently is in a very early state of development.
- Builtin functions like
$exit(),$source()and$run(). - full javascript support thanks to rusty_v8.
- all executables in the path are mapped to functions in javascript (e.g.
ls(),pwd()). - You have all environment variables as normal variables.
- Ability to run system commands with
$run. - Custom implementation of
cdas thecdexecutable cannot mutate the cwd of another process.
- Nothing throws errors if wrong arguments are passed
- Almost everything uses
unwrap()(a rust thing) which panics the program if a there's a None value or an error occurs. - You cannot delete any characters that are "stitched together" (ä, é etc.).
- Sourcing a file twice which declares a variable or a function crashes the shell as variable shadowing only exists for child scopes in javascript and cannot be done in the same scope. This can be easily fixed by addressing the
unwrap()issue.
- Error handling lol
- multiline support for input.
- Moving around input with option, command & control custom prompt support.
- Autocompletion of variables, functions and path arguments (like node.js repl).
console.log&console.error(currently only echo works).- Expand on functionality and advantages over other shells.
- Currently every executable just dumps their output to stdout/stderr but then you cannot use javascript to do stuff with it. A solution may be streams but thats a big may. A problem with this approach is that every executable would have to return an object which has a type field which either is
"out"or"err"and a content field with the actual content so to not loose the meaning of text that's printed out. This however would introduce tons and tons of objects which could increase memory consumption/performance used by the garbage collector drastically... - Better syntax highlighting.
- Other stuff I probably forgot when typing this.
This is and likely will stay a hobby project of mine so I cannot push out features anytime of the day.
The code written should also not be taken as the gold standard as this is my first time writing a bigger project in rust, first time using the v8 engine and the first time building a shell...
In order to build this project you would have to clone the repository with git clone https://github.com/RoyalFoxy/jssh.git or git clone git@github.com:RoyalFoxy/jssh.git.
First you obviously need rust installed on your system. visit rust-lang to get started.
As rusty-v8 contains the v8 engine as a binary you do not have to build it yourself but only the wrapper that is rusty-v8. If you want to build v8 yourself go over to the binary-build section on their github repo.
As simple as running cargo build.
Currently there is no way of installing JSSh as it is too early imo to be used as a primary shell. If you still want to use it look at how you can build it here.