Melon

Melon is a fast modern .NET JavaScript runtime focused in rapid prototyping of projects, using minimal dependencies.

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Why Melon?

Melon is based in .NET, a cross-platform open source framework for building powerful applications, this power is being extended to JavaScript and TypeScript projects with compatibility and interoperability by default.
Melon is architected to work within the npm (node package manager) environment, this means you can install existing packages that are compatible with the runtime's built-in api. We are also working to make more and more packages compatible.
Melon is designed to offer a quick solution for project prototyping, so that it offers the basics needed to create applications while offering scalability and maintainability when necessary.

Web development

Melon brings the power of ASP.NET to JavaScript, allowing you to build synchronous or asynchronous dedicated web applications with few lines, using an express-like interface that is easy and simple to use.

const { http } = Melon;
const app = http.app();

app.get("/", async () => "Hello world");
app.run();

//Listening to http://localhost:80

Intensive async I/O operations

With the API of files and directories adapted to a JavaScript interface, it becomes simple to manage directories or files at the byte or text level in a simple and fast way, with just the use of simple methods without worrying about directly managing streams and cursors.

async function createFileAndReadContent() {
  await fs.writeTextAsync("./hello.txt", "Hello world");
  const content = await fs.readTextAsync("./hello.txt");

  console.log(content);
}

createFileAndReadContent();

//"Hello world"

Multithreading

Multithreaded parallel work can be done simply with Melon, the runtime uses an interface that creates a .NET "Thread" object and allows direct developer interaction via JavaScript, with automatic management by the internal CLR.

const { createThread } = Melon.dotnet.threading;

const workerThread = createThread(() => {
  fs.writeText("./hello.txt", "Hello world");
  const content = fs.readText("./hello.txt");

  console.log(content);
});

workerThread.start();

//"Hello world"

Direct .NET interop

It is possible to create a .NET instance manipulation object quickly using the Realm constructor, with it, there is the possibility to create instances with direct interoperability for use in code.