CommonJS

Welcome to CommonJS, a group with a goal of building up the JavaScript ecosystem for web servers, desktop and command line apps and in the browser.

This wiki is a starting point for collecting up ideas, any draft API suggestions for the CommonJS group. Discussions occur on that mailing list and on IRC (#commonjs on freenode).

Meta

• Introduction
• FAQ
• Process
• Target Platforms
• Coding Standards

Current Efforts

This is a list of issues currently being discussed / standardized. They come from the "Low level" department, as we need to have solid basics prior to building a tower.

1. Uniform Baseline / Globals (discussion)
2. Modules (1.1.1)
   1. binary: Binary Data Objects (byte arrays and/or strings) (proposals, discussion, early implementations)
   2. encodings: Encodings and character sets (proposals, discussion, early implementations)
   3. io: I/O Streams (proposals, discussion)
   4. fs, fs-base: Filesystem (proposals, discussion, early implementations)
   5. system: System Interface (stdin, stdout, stderr, &c) (1.0, amendments proposed)
   6. assert, test: Unit Testing (1.0, amendment proposals pending)
   7. sockets: Socket I/O TCP/IP sockets (early proposals)
   8. event-queue: Reactor Reactor/Event Queue (early proposals)
   9. worker: Worker Worker (concurrent shared nothing process/thread) (proposal)
   10. console: console (proposal)
3. Packages (1.0)
4. Package Mappings (proposal)
5. Web Server Gateway Interface (JSGI) (proposals, discussion, early implementations)
6. Promises (proposal)

• Pending Business / Calls for Action / Status Report

Future Efforts

Low-level APIs

This is the collection of APIs that we'd like to see behaving consistently across JavaScript interpreters.

• Language and Runtime Services
• Logging
• Relational database interface
• ResultSets (collections of data maybe from RDBMS, maybe from other sources)
• Concurrency
• String / ByteString I/O
• C unified API to our Target Platforms
• Subprocesses (popen)

High-level APIs

This is the collection of APIs that implement common functionality on top of the low-level API.

• HTTP client APIs
• Email
• Jabber (XMPP)
• Internationalization
• Promise Manager
• Command line processing

Implementations

Implementations	Standards	Proposals and standards in development

In development

• mob is implementing SecurableModules in Ejscript http://www.ejscript.org
• pmuellr posted a sample loader for SecurableModules: http://wiki.github.com/pmuellr/modjewel
• atul varma has a SecurableModule implementation for Python/Spidermonkey: http://hg.toolness.com/pydertron/raw-file/tip/docs.html
• Alexandre implements several commonJS standards in Wakanda (SquirrelFish) http://www.wakandasoft.com
• Titanium is in the process of adding support for CommonJS. http://www.appcelerator.com

Tests

• CommonJS tests compatible with this test framework.

Further Reading

• Existing APIs
• Infrastructure
• High Level Tools
• Random Links

Wiki

• Dumps