This work incorporates C source code forked from various projects to implement a lightweight, performant, and unified web runtime environment for JavaScript apps with the following features:
- JavaScript engine and compiler
- Storage engine
- Database engine
- Messaging engine
- Unified command shell / TUI that includes
- JavaScript REPL
- Admin console for deployment and monitoring
This work is licensed under the MIT License. This license is considered to be compatible with the licenses of the forked projects listed below.
QuickJS is an embeddable JavaScript engine created by Fabrice Bellard.
The purpose of this fork is to implement a lightweight JavaScript runtime and standard library for modern web apps. Changes in this fork include:
- Update for C23 and strip features that aren't needed, such as Windows and 32-bit support; remove support for non-standard bigfloat, bigdecimal, and qjscalc
- Implement standard library for web APIs (like
fetch), web request handlers, and distributed app internal service messaging - Add automatic type-stripping for JavaScript + types (a subset of TypeScript)
QuickJS License: MIT License
SQLite is an embeddable SQL data engine.
SQLite License: SQLite is in the public domain.
The ncurses (new curses) library is a free software emulation of curses in System V Release 4.0, library of functions that manage an application's display on character-cell terminals.
ncurses License: LGPL v2.1