Run JavaScript in macOS apps through Microsoft's ChakraCore engine.
This is a very rudimentary sample of building macOS applications that can run JavaScript through Microsoft’s ChakraCore engine.
ChakraCore itself has the following requirements:
$ brew install cmake icu4c
Clone the repository and all of its submodules:
$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/qasim/ChakraCore-Cocoa.git && cd ChakraCore-Cocoa
Then, we can generate ChakraCore’s Xcode project files:
$ ./ChakraCore/build.sh --xcode --icu=/usr/local/opt/icu4c/include
Open the Xcode workspace:
$ open ChakraCore-Cocoa.xcworkspace
That’s it! Build and run the ChakraCore-Cocoa target to see the sample file being executed by ChakraCore, and then printed to console, all inside a macOS app.
This can be used to build native macOS applications that may depend on a shared JS library. One could build a Cocoa wrapper on top of ChakraCore to create an alternative to Apple’s JavaScriptCore.
At the time of writing, ChakraCore cannot be built for iOS targets yet (Microsoft/ChakraCore#1237).