Nodelike is a weekend hack to implement a roughly Node.JS-compatible interface using JavaScriptCore.framework on iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks.
(JavaScriptCore hasn't been available before iOS 7, and on OS X the project makes extensive use of the newly-updated 10.9-only Objective-C API. Previously on 10.8 there existed only a very low-level and very verbose C API.)
This is currently in a very incomplete state, and not viable for serious use. It could, however, become usable over the following weeks.
- to be drop-in compatible with the current nodejs master
- to be very lightweight
- to reuse javascript code from node (/lib)
- to provide the most minimal binding that is possible (via libuv)
- NOT to archieve Node.js performance (this is meant as a client-side, not a server-side application)
- NOT to be backwards-compatible (nodejs cutting edge and newest iOS/OS X required)
You first need to fetch the nodejs submodule. Do so by:
git submodule initgit submodule update
Afterwards, just open Nodelike.xcodeproj, build the framework and you're all set!