/txiki.js

The tiny JavaScript runtime built with QuickJS, libuv and ❤️

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txiki.js — The tiny JavaScript runtime

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Overview

txikia (basque): small, tiny.

txiki.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.

It was formerly named quv.

Features

Browser-like APIs

  • Console API
  • URL & URLSearchParams
  • TextEncoder / TextDecoder APIs
  • EventTarget / Event / CustomEvent
  • XMLHttpRequest & fetch (including AbortController)
  • Performance API
  • Worker API
  • Crypto API (just getRandomValues)
  • WebAssembly (no tables, globals or memory support yet)

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)
  • WASI (no memory support yet)

See the full API.

Other extras:

  • Import directly from HTTP(S) URLs
  • Import JSON files
  • path module
  • uuid module
  • hashlib module
  • BigFloat and BigDecimal extensions

Supported platforms

  • GNU/Linux
  • macOS
  • Windows (experimental)
  • Other Unixes (please test!)

Building

CMake is necessary.

# Get the code
git clone --recursive https://github.com/saghul/txiki.js --shallow-submodules && cd txiki.js
# Compile it!
make
# Run the REPL
./build/tjs

NOTE: The txiki.js build depends on a number of git submodules (e.g. curl, libuv). If you didn't already clone this repository recursively, make sure you initialize these submodules with git submodule update --init before proceeding to the build.

Thanks

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

In addition, txiki.js has these contributors to thank for their help.

Thank you all for making this project possible!