[webkit-dev] node-jsc: A node.js port to the JavaScriptCore engine and iOS

[Filip Pizlo]

Wow!  That’s pretty cool!

I think that it would be great for this to be upstreamed. Can you create a bug on bugs.webkit.org <http://bugs.webkit.org/> and post your patches for review?

-Filip

On Sep 13, 2018, at 4:02 PM, Koby Boyango <koby.b at mce.systems <mailto:koby.b at mce.systems>> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm Koby Boyango, a senior researcher and developer at mce, and I've created node-jsc <https://github.com/mceSystems/node-jsc>, an experimental port of node.js to the JavaScriptCore engine and iOS specifically.
> 
> node-jsc's core component, "jscshim" (deps/jscshim) <https://github.com/mceSystems/node-jsc/tree/master/deps/jscshim>, implements (parts of) v8 API on top of JavaScriptCore. It contains a stripped down version of WebKit's source code (mainly JSC and WTF). To build WebKit, I'm using CMake to build the JSCOnly port, with JSC\WTF compiled as static libraries. For iOS I'm using my own build script <https://github.com/mceSystems/node-jsc/blob/master/deps/jscshim/tools/build_jsc.py> with a custom toolchain file <https://github.com/mceSystems/node-jsc/blob/master/deps/jscshim/tools/ios.toolchain.cmake>.
> 
> The project also includes node-native-script <https://github.com/mceSystems/node-native-script>, NativeScript's iOS runtime refactored as node-jsc native module, allowing access to native iOS APIs directly from javascript.
> 
> So first of all, I wanted to share this project with the WebKit developer community.
> It's my first time working with WebKit, and node-jsc has been a great opportunity to experiment with it.
> 
> Second, as I needed to make some minor changes\additions, I'm using my own fork <https://github.com/mceSystems/webkit>. I would love to discuss some of the changes I've made, and offer some patches if you'll find them useful. 
> "WebKit Fork and Compilation <https://github.com/mceSystems/node-jsc/blob/master/deps/jscshim/docs/webkit_fork_and_compilation.md>" describes WebKit's usage in node-jsc and the major changes\additions I've made in my fork (node-jsc's README <https://github.com/mceSystems/node-jsc/blob/master/README.md> and jschim's documentation <https://github.com/mceSystems/node-jsc/blob/master/deps/jscshim/docs/jscshim.md> contains some more information).
> 
> Besides that, I will appreciate any opinions\ideas\insights\suggestions :) 
> 
> Koby
> 
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