Gjs: Javascript Bindings for GNOME

Gjs is a Javascript binding for GNOME. It's mainly based on Spidermonkey javascript engine and the GObject introspection framework.

If you use it, especially for GNOME-related projects, please follow the Style Guide. Otherwise, JavaScript is so free-form that code becomes very difficult to maintain.

Releases

• gjs-0.5 (released 2010-02-10)

How to Test

In order to build and test gjs, you'll need latest gobject-introspection from GNOME svn and Spidermonkey (mozilla-js in Ubuntu, found in the xulrunner-dev package). The code is in GNOME git repo:

• http://git.gnome.org/browse/gjs/

Contact

Mailing list: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/javascript-list IRC: irc://irc.gnome.org/#javascript

Links

• Gjs and Gtk+ - Hello World

• Style Guide

• Mapping examples of how to use GObject from JavaScript

• GObjectIntrospection

• Havoc's blog post about embeddable languages

• Alex's blog post about GScript

• Elliot's introduction to gjs/clutter development

• Much code in gnome-shell: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/tree/js

• DBus in Gjs