NAME

JSX - a faster, safer, easier JavaScript

INSTALLATION

The JSX compiler requires node.js v0.8.0 or later, npm, and the SDK also requires Perl 5.10.0 or later.

To setup JSX SDK , type the following command:

git clone --recursive git://github.com/jsx/JSX.git
cd JSX
make # to build bin/jsx

To install jsx command, just make a link of bin/jsx to ~/bin.

ln -s "$PWD/bin/jsx" ~/bin

COMPILATION

There's bin/jsx command to compile JSX source code into JavaScript.

Type the following commands and see what happens:

# run Hello World in JSX
bin/jsx --run example/hello.jsx

# display compiled code to stdout
bin/jsx example/hello.jsx

# compile it with fully optimizations
bin/jsx --release example/hello.jsx

# compile a program for node, execute it later
bin/jsx --executable node --output hello.jsx.js example/hello.jsx
./hello.jsx.js # displays "Hello, world!"

# run a test, calling _Test#test*()
bin/jsx --test example/import.jsx # import.jsx has _Test

jsx --help shows how to to use the jsx command.

TESTING

There are unit tests in t/ directory. For server side tests, just type the following command:

make test
# or
make test JOBS=2

WEB INTERFACE

There's a web interface, which compiles JSX source on browsers. Type the following commands to use the web interface.

make web
make server # to run an HTTP daemon
open http://localhost:5000/

EXAMPLES

There are JSX source files in example/ and web/example/, and the the test directory t/.

WINDOWS SUPPORT

you can install jsx command via npm install -g ., and then can invoke jsx. For the web interface, you can run the server by the following commands:

perl web/build.pl
node web/server.js

Note that Windows environment is not completely supported yet.

RESOURCES

• JSX Wiki