myjs

A JavaScript interpreter for Python. Run .js files, render HTML pages headlessly, script the DOM, call native C through ffi, and reach the entire Python ecosystem from JavaScript — no Node, no browser, no build step.

pip install myjs
# or, for an isolated CLI:
pipx install myjs

myjs                          # REPL (history, TAB completion, top-level await)
myjs script.js                # run a file
myjs script.js a b            # ...with ["a","b"] as globalThis.argv
myjs -e "6 * 7"               # evaluate a snippet
myjs page.html                # render a page headlessly -> HTML on stdout
myjs page.html -e "document.title"   # ...then read the rendered DOM
myjs examples                 # list the bundled demos; `myjs examples hn --run`
myjs examples cockpit --run   # a live TUI: dashboard, killable workers, raw keypresses

import myjs

myjs.eval("1 + 2 * 3")               # -> 7
myjs.run("script.js")

s = myjs.Session()                   # an isolated global scope
s.eval("const x = 21;"); s.eval("x * 2")   # -> 42

# a .py file calling a .js file directly -- no bridge, no serialization
mod = myjs.import_js("math_utils.js")   # export function double(x) { return x*2; }
mod.double(21)                          # -> 42, a real Python call into real JS

What a script can reach

const libc = ffi.loadLibrary("c");
libc.abs.argtypes = [ffi.types.int];
libc.abs.restype  = ffi.types.int;
libc.abs(-42);                              // 42

const rows = py.import("sqlite3").connect(":memory:").execute("SELECT 1+1").fetchall();
console.table([...py.list(py.list(rows)[0])]);

Headless HTML — render, scrape, automate

page = myjs.Page.load("https://example.com/")   # a URL (fetches HTML + CSS + JS) or a local file
page.eval("getComputedStyle(document.body).color")   # the fetched CSS, applied
page.fill("#search", "widgets")
page.submit("#form")
page.wait_for(".result")                # pump the event loop until it appears
page.text(".result")                    # read it back

myjs.render("app.html", strip_scripts=True)   # SSR: one call -> rendered HTML

Page.load takes a local path or an http(s):// URL. For a URL it fetches the page, every <link rel=stylesheet> (folded into the document so getComputedStyle sees the rules), and every <script src> — all resolved relative to the page URL. <script type="module"> gets module semantics; DOMContentLoaded / load fire. It's Puppeteer without a browser — a pip install, not a 150 MB Chromium download.

Command line

myjs [FILE] [ARGS...]           run a .js file (ARGS -> globalThis.argv),
                                or render a .html file headlessly
  -e, --eval JS                 evaluate JS; with a .html file, against the page
  -o, --output FILE             write rendered HTML to a file
  --html                        force headless-render mode
  --strip-scripts               drop <script> elements after they run
  --gui                         show the resulting DOM in a native window (needs myjs[gui])
  -i, --interactive             enter the REPL after running
myjs examples [NAME] [--run]    list / view / run the bundled demos
myjs                            REPL

The REPL

readline history (persisted to ~/.config/myjs/history), reverse search, and TAB completion of globals and obj.member chains. Multi-line input is auto-detected; top-level await works. Values print the way a real REPL's inspector would -- colored, wrapped past 72 columns, Map/Set/RegExp/ Date/Symbol/Promise shown natively rather than falling back to a generic dump. A live setInterval dashboard redraws in place instead of flashing the whole terminal. Commands: .load <file> (a .js, or a .html rendered into the session as page), .save, .editor, .clear, .help, .exit.

Language embedding

s = myjs.Session(scope={"answer": 42})
s.eval("answer * 2")                     # -> 84

A JS exception that escapes becomes myjs.JSError with js_name, js_line, and js_trace (the call stack). Sessions are isolated; console.log output is captured on s.console_lines.

The language layer passes a curated test262-style battery — closures, classes (extends / super / fields / getters-setters / private / static), destructuring, generators, labelled break, async / await, and the Array / String / Object / Number / Math / JSON / RegExp built-ins, real ES5-style prototype chains, and Symbol. Not covered: Proxy, with.

How it's built

myjs is the runtime layer on top of the domonic-libs acorn port — a faithful Python port of the acorn parser, a tree-walking evaluator, and a code generator (parse / interpret / generate, so JS can go source → AST → source) — running on domonic's DOM. It ships in lockstep with domonic-libs.

Full reference: docs/myjs.md. MIT licensed.