Javascript Interpreter

I wanted a convenient way to test out some javascript by running it in a browser and being able to play with it via an interpreter like python has. As it turns out the almighty Bob created a nice interpreter for playing around with Mochikit but I wanted something a bit more generic that would allow me to import any kind of javascript and play with it. It turns out this is really easy so I added one simple function to the interpreter.js file called importjs.

You just call importjs like so

importjs(url)

This will import a javascript file from the url given. It's a very simple function that just adds a script tag to the document wrapped in div tag. You can load up the interpreter and type "importjs" to see the code.

function (jssource) {
  importdiv = DIV();
  importdiv.innerHTML = "Importing " + jssource + " <script type='text/javascript' src='" + jssource + "'></script>";
  writeln(importdiv);
}

Check out the slightly modified interpreter here

This entry was posted on July 8th, 2008 at 07:45:46 pm and is filed under Javascript.
Tags: interpreter, Javascript, MochiKit

2 comments

Comment from: Jeffrey Gelens [Visitor] · http://www.gelens.org/

Cool, last week I was searching for the same thing. Thanks!

07/09/08 @ 10:30

Comment from: Ian Lewis [Member]

· http://www.ianlewis.org/

I've pretty much stopped using this since the firebug console feature is vastly superior to this for debugging stuff.

It's pretty fun to play around with a terminal though.

11/19/08 @ 11:03

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	function (jssource) {
	importdiv = DIV();
	importdiv.innerHTML = "Importing " + jssource + " <script type='text/javascript' src='" + jssource + "'></script>";
	writeln(importdiv);
	}