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Comparison of server-side JavaScript solutions

This is a list of server-side JavaScript solutions.

1 Server-side JavaScript use
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

Server-side JavaScript use

Examples of current uses of JavaScript on the server side
Project-product name	JavaScript engine	Server platform(s)	Comments
10gen	Rhino	10gen application server	Uses Rhino parser; compiles JavaScript to Java
Alfresco	Rhino	Any Java servlet container and standalone.	Has JavaScript API that allows webscripts to create, access, delete, and manipulate data in the main Alfresco repository
Apache Sling	Rhino	Any Java servlet container and standalone	Generic Java web application framework that allows to use any script language via the standard Java Script Engine interface; Sling is RESTful by design and sits on top of a Java Content Repository, giving scripts full access to the JCR
APE	SpiderMonkey	Standalone HTTP	Used to write custom server modules (manage message queue, users, channels, sockets, HTTP, ...). [2]
AppJet	Rhino (modified)		Also provides hosting in a virtual machine
Aptana Jaxer	SpiderMonkey	Apache HTTP Server	A community open source Ajax-server based on the Mozilla browser (DOM + JavaScript engine). HTML, JavaScript, and CSS are native to Jaxer, as are XMLHttpRequests, JSON, DOM scripting, etc. It offers access to databases, files, and networking, as well as logging, process management, scalability, security, integration APIs, and extensibility. Not developed anymore by Aptana.
ASP	JScript	IIS
CouchDB	SpiderMonkey	Standalone HTTP	Used in MapReduce and update validation functions as well as to transform JSON documents and view results into HTML or other content-types.
Eclipse e4	Rhino	Equinox OSGi, bundled with Jetty, any servlet container (using the servlet bridge)	Extensions can be written in JavaScript, not just Java, especially servlets using the OSGi HTTP Service. Frontends can be developed with Eclipse RAP using the SWT and JFace APIs, or any other UI framework. Focus is on modularity (plug-ins), extensibility, scalability.
EditMe	Rhino	Hosted (Tomcat)	Wiki with embedded JavaScript engine and API for application development within the wiki
GLUEscript	SpiderMonkey	Apache HTTP Server, FastCGI and stand-alone	Glueing Libraries Using Ecmascript (GLUE) ports sqlite, mysql, memcached, wxWidgets, POCO, ... to JavaScript. GLUEscript is the successor of wxJavaScript.^[1]
Google Apps Script	Rhino (com.google.apps.maestro.rhino)	Google AppEngine	Implement Enterprise Workflows with Apps Script. Google Apps Script can be embedded in Google Sites giving your Google Site a backend. In addition, you can automate simple tasks across Google Products. Google Apps Script also allows interaction with non Google APIs and JDBC calls to databases.
GromJS	SpiderMonkey	Bauk	GromJS is a Server Side JavaScript (SSJS) interpreter which provides the ability to use an enhanced version of the JavaScript language on a web server with similar functionality to PHP, CGI, ASP, mod_perl or any other server side scripting solution.^[2]
Helma	Rhino	Jetty HTTP Server	Complete package with web server and framework.
JSSP	Rhino	Any Java servlet container	Contains a modified Rhino version for embedded SQL support
MynaJS	Rhino	Any Java servlet container
Narwhal	Rhino, SpiderMonkey, V8^[3]	Standalone
Node.js	V8	Standalone	JavaScript asynchronous, event-based I/O. Influenced by systems like Ruby's Event Machine, Perl's POE or Python's Twisted. Plenty of modules available.
Opera	Futhark	Opera Unite	JavaScript is the server-side language used to develop services for the Opera Unite feature of the Opera browser. This is a server built in to the browser. The JavaScript API includes local file access to a virtual sandboxed file-system and persistent storage via persistent global variables.
SilkJS	V8	Standalone	JavaScript Synchronous, CommonJS, JST (JSP-like template)/Markdown templating, easily extended with C++/Javascript Linux/OSX compatible. Pre-fork Http Server, Modules: MySQL, ORM, memcached, redis, SQLite3, Oracle, ncurses, GD2, cURL, SSH, FTP/SFTP, GitHub, builtin - LESS compiler and CoffeeScript compiler. "SilkJS enables JavaScript as a scripting language in the server environment. You can think of SilkJS as a command shell, along the lines of Perl or PHP, except the language you write in is JavaScript."^[4]
TeaJS	V8	Standalone	Formerly known as v8cgi.
WakandaDB	WebKit JavaScriptCore	Standalone	JavaScript Synchronous multi-threaded web server and no-sql database, supporting the CommonJS module specification, written in C++.

Other common server-side programming languages are JavaServer Pages (JSP), Active Server Pages (ASP), Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, ColdFusion, and others.

References

^ GLUEscript, By Franky Braem
^ GromJS, By Mark Constable
^ [1]
^ SilkJS, By Michael Schwartz

External links

The Server-Side JavaScript Google Group dedicated to creating cross-platform SSJS standard APIs.
Mozilla JavaScript shells especially section "Standalone JavaScript shells"

ECMAScript

Dialects

Engines
(comparison)

Carakan
Futhark
InScript
JavaScriptCore
- SquirrelFish
JScript
KJS
Linear B
Narcissus
QtScript
Rhino
YAJI
SpiderMonkey
- TraceMonkey
- JägerMonkey
Tamarin
V8
Chakra
Jurassic
JavaScript .NET
Jint

Frameworks,
libraries

JavaScript
(comparison)

Client-side (list, Ajax frameworks)	Ample SDK CougarXML Dojo Echo Ext JS Google Web Toolkit jQuery Lively Kernel midori MochiKit MooTools Prototype Pyjamas qooxdoo Rialto Rico script.aculo.us SmartClient SproutCore Spry YUI Library

Server-side (comparison)	AppJet Jaxer Node.js

Libraries (list)	Backbone SWFObject SWFAddress Underscore

ActionScript

PureMVC

Multiple
implementations

Cappuccino
- JavaScript
- Objective-J

People

Other

Comparison of server-side JavaScript solutions

Contents

Server-side JavaScript use

See also

References

External links