I know that this question has already been asked HERE but sadly none of the answers suggest a javascript standalone shell that has auto completion. I am reopening this question again, in the hope that some new answers might be found.
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I know that this question has already been asked HERE but sadly none of the answers suggest a javascript standalone shell that has auto completion. I am reopening this question again, in the hope that some new answers might be found.
edit: after using the node REPL a bit more, I’ve discovered this evaluation to be overly positive. There are some serious problems with its implementation, including an inability to yank killed text, issues with editing lines that are longer than the terminal width, and some other problems. It might be better to just use rhino.
The node.js REPL (
node-replon a system with node installed) is the best terminal-based, system-context shell I’ve seen so far. I’m comparing it to rhino and the built-in v8 shell. It provides tab-completion and line editing history, as well as syntax-colouring of evaluations. You can also import CommonJS modules, or at least those modules implemented by node.Downside is that you have to build node. This is not a huge deal, as building apps goes, but might be a challenge if you don’t normally do such things.