NAME

JSX - a faster, safer, easier JavaScript

INSTALLATION

The JSX compiler requires node.js v0.6.19 or later, npm, and the SDK also requires Perl 5.10.0 or later.

To install JSX from NPM without the SDK (e.g. no web interface support):

npm install jsx -g

To setup JSX SDK , type the following command:

git clone git://github.com/jsx/JSX.git
cd JSX
make setup

If you installed the SDK version, you might want to link the binary for easy access to the jsx command:

npm link

COMPILATION

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

Type the following commands and see what happens:

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

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

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

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

# run a test, calling _Test#test*()
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 (SDK version required):

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

Note that Windows environment is not completely supported yet.

RESOURCES

• JSX Wiki