JSDB: A JavaScript Interpreter

Recently I have taken keen interest in JavaScript, mainly because to handle jQuery better. I have always found JS very cool but never had the time to dig deeper into the language. In this EID vacation at KU, I had plenty of leisure times even after my tasks at Leevio and the free lance jobs. I started passing time with JS and found something really cool that I didn’t know so far.

JavaScript is a programming language. Yeah, just like the interpreted languages like Python, PHP and Ruby, JS is another good old programming language. My ignorance, I never knew this! 🙁 I have always thought that JavaScript is merely a client side scripting language that works with web browsers only 😛

My perceptions started changing few months ago when I saw some server side applications of JavaScript coding. Lately, a few days back I saw the node.js projects which is quite similar to the Twisted project implemented in Python. I started wondering how JS is being interpreted on the server side. Google answered me 😀 There are JavaScript interpreters for even shell scripting 🙂

I first tried the interpreters from Mozilla but unfortunately couldn’t make them work on my machine. So, I switched to JSDB 😀 The interpreter is available free for download at: http://www.jsdb.org/ 🙂

They say on their homepage:

JSDB is JavaScript for databases, a scripting language for data-driven, network-centric programming on Windows, Mac, Linux, and SunOS. JSDB works with databases, XML, the web, and email. It is free and open-source. Use it as a JavaScript shell, to run CGI programs, or as a web server.

Yeah, I indeed use it as a JavaScript Shell 😀

Here is the Documentation of what JSDB has inside. I have made a PDF print out of the page for offline reading!

I really find the tool interesting because I am writing small throw away programs those are not really that much useful but the development curve is contributing to my JS skills 😀