Top 7 JavaScript Cplusplu Projects

ChakraCore

15 9,031 5.3 JavaScript

ChakraCore is an open source Javascript engine with a C API.

Project mention: This year in Servo: over 1000 pull requests and beyond | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-18

I thought it would be a fun weird project to make Servo work with MS' abandoned JavaScript engine:
https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore
Of course it is written in C++ and you'd probably want a pure Rust browser. But it is sad seeing that fairly complete open source JIT JavaScript engine sit and rot.

ganja.js

8 1,492 2.5 JavaScript

:triangular_ruler: Javascript Geometric Algebra Generator for Javascript, c++, c#, rust, python. (with operator overloading and algebraic literals) -

Project mention: The Montreal Problem: Why Programming Languages Need a Style Czar | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-15

Some people's brains just work this way. Here's an example of a somewhat popular and regularly maintained library written in a similar style: https://github.com/enkimute/ganja.js/blob/6e97cb45d780cd7c66...
Once your learn to recognise the commonalities, you'll see examples everywhere. The most extreme and stereotypical version is the billboards written by some homeless people. You can probably picture it already in your mind's eye: A wall of very dense text with little whitespace or structure, and a mix of fonts and colours seemingly at random.
I had a brilliant mathematician friend who wrote like this. He would squeeze and entire semester's worth of study notes into a single sheet of paper, on one side. It was impenetrable gibberish to everyone else, but the colours and 2D positioning let him build a mental mind-map.
For people like this, if you reformat their code even a tiny bit, their mental map is invalidated, and they lose track of it completely and become upset. I discovered this (the hard way) when applying automatic code formatting tools to the codebases I mentioned previously.
Personally, I find this type of thing to be absolutely fascinating, because it's the intersection of many fields of study, and hence is under-studied. There's elements of pedagogy, psychology, literacy, compute science, etc...
It's an open question how we can get large groups of neurodiverse humans to collaborate on a codebase when they don't even "read" or "think" in compatible ways!

SurveyJS

surveyjs.io sponsored

Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
cordova-cli

1 925 5.1 JavaScript

Apache Cordova CLI
cordova-plugin-file-transfer

1 596 5.8 JavaScript

Apache Cordova File Transfer Plugin
cordova-plugin-device

1 384 2.8 JavaScript

Apache Cordova Device Plugin
tree-sitter-cpp

8 225 0.0 JavaScript

C++ grammar for tree-sitter

Project mention: Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-21

Grammar page (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-cpp) reference two documents at the very end:
- Hyperlinked C++ BNF Grammar (https://alx71hub.github.io/hcb/)
- EBNF Syntax: C++ (ISO/IEC 14882:1998(E)) https://www.externsoft.ch/download/cpp-iso.html
The second doc has a year in the title, so it's ancient af.

cordova-node-xcode

2 188 3.2 JavaScript

Apache cordova
InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).