txiki.js is a small and powerful JavaScript runtime. It targets state-of-the-art ECMAScript and aims to be WinterCG compliant.
It’s built on the shoulders of giants: it uses QuickJS-ng as its JavaScript engine and libuv as the platform layer.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Support for the ES2023 specification (almost complete).
- Aims to be WinterCG compliant.
- TCP and UDP sockets.
- Unix sockets / named pipes.
- Signal handling.
- File operations.
- Child processes.
- DNS (getaddrinfo).
- WASI.
- Miscellaneous utility functions.
- Cross-platform support – Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/saghul/txiki.js
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Developer: Saúl Ibarra Corretgé
License: MIT License
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