nodejs-mobile
Full-fledged Node.js on Android and iOS (by JaneaSystems)
hermes
A JavaScript engine optimized for running React Native. (by facebook)
| nodejs-mobile | hermes | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 44 | |
| 2,580 | 10,153 | |
| 0.0% | 0.8% | |
| 0.0 | 9.6 | |
| over 3 years ago | 5 days ago | |
| JavaScript | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
nodejs-mobile
Posts with mentions or reviews of nodejs-mobile.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-30.
- I am a web dev but don't have a computer.
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[iOS] [Code App] [$4.99–> Free] [Open source code editor with built-in Node.js, Python, C, C++, PHP runtime, Git integration and built-in web server]
“This isn't as straight forward as it seems. Porting NodeJS and its underlying JavaScript engine to iOS is challenging and currently we rely on https://github.com/JaneaSystems/nodejs-mobile which is no longer actively maintained. Codesandbox's Play.js uses a modified version of it but it's still at 12.19.0.
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How I improved my React Native app 50x faster
The React Native community is not focusing on providing solid APIs for binary data, unlike NodeJS. They are working on improving it as a front-end framework instead. And they would rely on extensions for other things like platform-dependent features. There is a project called nodejs-mobile which allows you to integrate NodeJS into your app. While it'd be fun for hobby projects, it's scary to rely on such a minor framework for my app focusing on its longevity. In fact, this library looks inactive these days.
hermes
Posts with mentions or reviews of hermes.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-11-09.
- Jaws – a JavaScript to WASM ahead of time compiler
- Porffor: A from-scratch experimental ahead-of-time JS engine
- Hermes Sandboxed Runtime
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LLRT: A low-latency JavaScript runtime from AWS
Hermes is a big one as well: low startup latency, low memory
https://hermesengine.dev/
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A list of JavaScript engines, runtimes, interpreters
Hermes
- Implementation of Arrays via Segments (By Hermes for JavaScript)
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Threads uses Compose!
InstagramBundle.js.hbc.spk.xz is likely a compressed version of Hermes bytecode (js.hbc)"
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Removing Timezones from Dates in Javascript
In React Native's case, it uses an engine called Hermes:
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This Week In React-Native #137: Expo Code Elimination, Monorepo, Hermes, Chain React, EAS, Skia, Expo Router, VisionCamera, React-Native-Graph
📜 I made JSON.parse() 2x faster: Radek proposes to improve the performance of Hermes by using very fast C++ libs based on SIMD instructions. Interesting to read even if you don't use React-Native. Ongoing discussions on the Hermes PR.
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I made JSON.parse() 2x faster
Thanks! There's a preliminary PR with a discussion here: https://github.com/facebook/hermes/pull/933 (and broader context here: https://github.com/facebook/hermes/issues/811 ). But we'll see if there's any interest on Hermes' side to merging it. They definitely want to improve the parser, but it's unclear to me if they want to take on the simdjson/simdutf dependencies.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nodejs-mobile and hermes you can also consider the following projects:
react-native-aes-gcm-crypto - AES-GCM encryption/decryption for React Native
v8.dev - The source code of v8.dev, the official website of the V8 project.
js-spark-md5 - Lightning fast normal and incremental md5 for javascript
quickjspp - Port of QuickJS Javascript Engine.
react-native-quick-md5 - Fast C++ implementation with JSI binding of MD5 for React Native
react-native-skia - High-performance React Native Graphics using Skia