List of languages that compile to JS

CoffeeScript + Family & Friends

Name Description CoffeeScript Unfancy JavaScript CoffeeScript II: The Wrath of Khan Rewrite of the CS compiler

Family (share genes with CoffeeScript)

Name Description Coco A CoffeeScript dialect that aims to be more radical and practical, also acts as a test bed for features that get imported in CoffeeScript. LiveScript A fork of Coco that is much more compatible with CoffeeScript, more functional, and with more features. IcedCoffeeScript A CoffeeScript dialect that adds support for await and defer keywords which simplify async control flow. Parsec CoffeeScript CS based on parser combinators. The project’s aim is to add static metaprogramming (i.e. macros + syntax extensibility) to Coffee Script (CS), similar to how Metalua adds such features to Lua. The resulting compiler, once merged with the official compiler, should be usable as a drop-in replacement for it. Contracts.coffee A dialect of CoffeeScript that adds built-in support for contracts. Uberscript A CoffeeScript fork that adds type annotations which are compiled to Google closure compiler type annotation comments. ToffeeScript A dialect of CoffeeScript that support Asynchronous Syntax and Regexp operator =~ Caffeine A dialect of CoffeeScript that supports packages and classes import, useful for browser applications heap.coffee A dialect of CoffeeScript that offers a C-like type system with manual memory management EmberScript Ember.js-infused CoffeeScript. BlackCoffee CoffeeScript with hygienic macros. See also #3171

Friends (philosophically related)

Name Description NodeScript JavaScript without the Variable Declarations and Semicolons Bizubee The World’s Most Intense Programming Language! Kaffeine Enhanced Syntax for JavaScript. Moescript Indent-based language. The original repository at https://github.com/moescript/moescript is missing. The link is to a surviving fork. pogoscript Language that emphasises readability, handles async control flow nicely, is friendly to domain specific languages and compiles to regular JavaScript LispyScript A JavaScript with Lispy syntax and Macros. [○](#other “this item appears twice in this list; jump to its other instance”) Hot Cocoa Lisp A Lisp-like language that compiles to JavaScript. [○](#other “this item appears twice in this list; jump to its other instance”) Sibilant JavaScript with a lisp. [○](#other “this item appears twice in this list; jump to its other instance”) ki Clojure-like syntax, mori ’s immutable data structures in a few sweet.js macros. Can be intermixed with JavaScript. [○](#clojure-like “this item appears twice in this list; jump to its other instance”) jisp A JS-native and axiomatic Lisp that focuses on the core ideas of code-as-data, S-expressions, and macros, introducing as few new concepts as possible. [○](#other “this item appears twice in this list; jump to its other instance”) Ham Looks very similar to JavaScript at first, but offers (hopefully) many useful features GorillaScript Compile-to-JavaScript language designed to empower the user while attempting to prevent some common errors, offers Macros, optional Typing, and asynchronous syntax. RedScript Ruby-flavored JavaScript. Daonode Functional logic solver, compiler. LiteScript Literate, highly-readable, type annotated, imperative language that compiles to JavaScript. ColaScript Similar to Dart, CoffeeScript, Python and PHP Taijilang A customizable and extensible language with dynamic parser and meta language. MoonScript MoonScript is a dynamic scripting language that compiles into Lua. The syntax of MoonScript has been heavily inspired by the syntax of CoffeeScript. Earl Grey An extensible language with pattern matching, hygienic macros and a syntax similar to Python. Khepri Lightweight language that reworks Javascript’s syntax to be better for untyped functional-style programming. Spider Spider is a programming language that compiles to JavaScript (ES5 and ES6 targets). It takes the best ideas of Go, Swift, Python, C# and CoffeeScript. CirruScript Write JavaScript with indentations and polish notations, similar to S-Expression but with fewer parentheses. TLC Tag Line Commands is a inline macro language for calling+formatting javascript/coffeescript/livescript json output into HTML. CokeScript Inspired by Python and Ruby that integrates natively with the Virtual-DOM library imba Compiles to performant and readable JavaScript Cor Straightforward language for the Web Iode A language inspired by Swift FutureScript A more radical, but more readable, different new language. PearScript Shorthanding JavaScript one more time. RamdaScript JavaScript in the Ramda way. RoyalScript A functional language that has loops, types, structs, and much more.

JavaScript Extensions

Security enforcing JavaScript

Name Description Caja Compiles ES5/strict to ES3 and supports object-capabilities ADsafe Client-side static verifier and API, making third party scripts safe. Jacaranda Static verifier supporting object-capabilities. Dojo Secure Framework for building secure mashups.

Static typing

NOTE:Some of the projects listed below are also statically typed, such as mobl, GWT, JSIL, NS Basic, and Haxe.

Name Description Dart C/Java-like syntax with optional typing by Google. TypeScript Typed superset of JavaScript by Microsoft. TeJaS From Brown PLT. Types for JavaScript (itself). asm.js Subset of JavaScript that can be used as a low-level, efficient target language for compilers. Now included in Firefox. JavaScript++ JavaScript superset with classes, type checking, among other features Mascara [commercial] Enhances JavaScript with powerful features like classes, namespaces and type-checking. Roy Tries to meld JavaScript semantics with some features common in static functional languages Elm Type-safe functional language that compiles to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Swym Statically typed, with type inference and generics Typecast.js JavaScript platform for statically typed variables without a custom compiler. PureScript A small, strongly typed programming language that compiles to JavaScript and C++, featuring extensible records and effects, and type classes. Flow Static type checker for JavaScript, supports optional types and null checks by Facebook. ActionScript With Apache Royale ASJS (formerly FlexJS) - Based on ECMAScript 4, ActionScript provides typing and can be compiled to JavaScript. BuckleScript OCaml compiled to readable JavaScript.

Synchronous to Asynchronous JavaScript Compilers (CPS)

Name Description Streamline.js Uses underscore (_) to stand for callbacks. This fork preserves line numbers for debugging. mobl The new language for programming the mobile web. StratifiedJS JavaScript + structured concurrency. NarrativeJS JavaScript extension with asynchronous futures and promises. jwacs JavaScript With Advanced Continuation Support. Wind.js Wind.js is an advanced library which enable us to control flow with plain JavaScript for asynchronous programming (and more) without additional pre-compiling steps. TameJS Adds new keywords ‘await’ and ‘defer’ Continuation.js A lightweight JIT compiler for simplifying asynchronous JavaScript programming with no runtime dependences. It supports both Node.js and browser-side JavaScript and is compatible with CoffeeScript (also TypeScript, and any other scripts compile to js). Kal Makes asynchronous programming easy and clean by allowing functions to pause and wait for I/O, replacing an awkward callback syntax with a clean, simple syntax JSPipe Provides JavaScript primitives to write async code without callbacks or chained functions. Inspired by Goroutines and Channels found in Go and in Clojure. For Web and NodeJS. ES5 and ES6. promiseLand PromiseLand is a very promising Language. It includes ES5 strict mode, uses the * dereferencing operator to access promise results and introduces additional features designed to let you focus on your program logic. Such as dynamic typesafety, frame addressing, generic load and safe features.

JavaScript Language Extensions

Name Description ContextJS An implementation of Context-oriented Programming for JavaScript. Objective-J Shares with JavaScript the same relationship that Objective-C has with the C programming language: that of being a strict, but small, superset. Mochiscript Object-oriented JavaScript with syntactic sugar. Released as a Ruby gem. jangaroo AS3 (ActionScript) to JavaScript. Flapjax Event-driven, reactive evaluation. jLang Adds object oriented syntax, namespaces, operators overriding Restrict Mode TIScript Gentle extension of JavaScript Six Six is a language super-set of JavaScript that enables new syntactic features from the 6th edition of ECMAScript to be used, through a transpiler, in your scripts today. js-- JavaScript subset for interactive/visual programming . Latte JS Superset of JavaScript (eventually ES6), with similar goals to CoffeeScript, but keeping JS syntax. JSX A superset to add an XML-like syntax to represent HTML elements in React by Facebook oj Objective-C inspired superset of JavaScript with a tiny runtime, built-in obfuscator, and experimental type checker (courtesy of Typescript). mfjs Adds arbitrary side effects not already available in JavaScript. They may include but not limited to delimited continuations, asynchronous, logic, reactive, parallel, distributed and probabilistic programming. It doesn’t extend syntax so it may be used with any other language compiling to JavaScript.

Ruby

Name Description Opal Ruby to JavaScript compiler. HotRuby Runs opcode, compiled by YARV on Ruby inside a web browser or in Flash. ColdRuby Compiler of Ruby 1.9 MRI bytecode, and a runtime written in JavaScript to aid in execution of Ruby code. rb2js Converts Ruby to JavaScript. RubyJS A successor to rb2js Red Writes like Ruby and runs like JavaScript Quby Used for game coding site, open source . 8ball Ruby-to-JavaScript source-to-source transformer Ruby2JS Minimal yet extensible Ruby to JavaScript conversion. ruby-parser.js Original Ruby 2.0 parser ported to pure JavaScript, produces AST

Python

Name Description PYXC-PJ [CS friend] Python to JS. Can generate a (line/col)-number mappings file. Pyjamas Python to JS. Pyjaco Python to JavaScript compiler with module support. Pyjs Python to (readable) JS. Skulpt Python. Client side. PyCow Python to MooTools JS. PyvaScript Python-like syntax to JavaScript. RapydScript JavaScript with a Pythonic syntax. Bulbul Python3 to JavaScript/ES6/ES7 compiler. Apparently the only Python-to-JS compiler intended to provide support for AngularJS, React, Aurelia and other modern JS libs. Brython Browser Python. Embed Python 3 in <script type=”text/python”> PythonScript Python-like compiled to JavaScript pythonscript Python compiled to readable JavaScript using the AST. (proof of concept) Rusthon Integrates several python to js methods into one project. Very Active. Not only for JS & Py, but also Go, C, Nim, etc. PyPyJS PyPy. Compiled into JavaScript using Emscripten. JIT-compiling to JavaScript at runtime. Batavia Run Python bytecode in the browser Transcrypt New Python 3.5 to JavaScript transpiler. Supports multiple inheritance, bound function assignment, selective operator overloading, highly readable JS output, sourcemaps, small downloads, fast execution using call memoizing. Integrated with closure compiler / minifier, optional static checker and fabric.js graphics lib for HTML5 canvas. pseudo-python A restricted python to javascript/c#/go/ruby compiler JavaScripthon Transpile Python3.5 to ES6 and to ES5 (with the help of BabelJS, but w/o the need for nodejs). Supports classes, generators, async functions.

Erlang

Name Description Shen First and yet smallest Erlang JavaScript Compiler based on Erlang AST. It allows you to translate Elixir, Joxa, Lol and Erlang programs to JavaScript with erlc. JavaScript/OTP subset . Has node npm package called erlang-shen-js . LuvvieScript A browser-based dom-scripting language that is a strict sub-set of Erlang which is AST-to-AST transpiled to JavaScript ( code ) browserl Erlang Emulator written in JavaScript

Elixir

Name Description ElixirScript Converts Elixir AST to JavaScript AST to JavaScript code.

Perl

Name Description Perlito Project to compile Perl 5/6 to JavaScript, Ruby, SBCL, and Go. p2js Perl to JavaScript converter

Java/JVM

Name Description GWT Google Web Toolkit, compiles Java to JavaScript. Java2Script Eclipse Java to JavaScript compiler plugin and JavaScript version of SWT. j2js Java bytecode to JavaScript. Strongly-Typed JavaScript (STJS) JavaScript code generator from Java source. It is built as a Maven plugin. BicaJVM JavaScript implementation of JVM. Doppio JVM interpreter on CoffeeScript. Processing.js A Java-based visualization language that interprets to JavaScript. Kotlin Statically typed programming language targeting the JVM and JavaScript. Ceylon A modular static-typed JVM language compilable to JavaScript. GrooScript A framework to convert Groovy code to JavaScript. node-jvm Java virtual machine in pure node.js Bck2Brwsr Run “browserified” Java Code in, well, the browser. QWT QWT consists of a Java-to-JavaScript compiler, a prepared library of Qooxdoo componente (version 0.7.x) and some other tools. Similar to GWT TeaVM An ahead-of-time transpiler that takes JVM bytecode and produces JavaScript. Dragome SDK Compiles JVM bytecode to Javascript. JSweet A Java to JavaScript transpiler built on top of TypeScript and giving access to hundreds of JavaScript libraries in Java.

Scala

Name Description Scala.js The official Scala to JavaScript compiler js-scala JavaScript as an embedded DSL in Scala scalagwt Enhanced GWT (accepts jribble as well as Java) plus Scala to jribble. JScala Scala macro that produces JavaScript from Scala code.

C#, F#, .NET related languages

Name Description jsc [experimental] Recompile your .NET assembly to JavaScript, ActionScript, PHP or Java. JSIL MSIL (.NET bytecode) to JavaScript Script# Compiles C# to JS. CilJs Translates CIL/MSIL (.NET bytecode) (C#) to JavaScript Prefix In development Blade Visual Studio add-on for converting C# to JavaScript SharpKit C# to JavaScript Cross-Compiler Saltarelle C# to JavaScript Compiler. Saltarelle is now part of Bridge.NET . FunScript F# to JavaScript compiler with JQuery etc. mappings through a TypeScript type provider Pit F# to JavaScript compiler WebSharper Lets you compile F# to JS. NemerleWeb Nemerle language compiled to JS. Blue Storm F# to JavaScript (and some other languages). JScriptSuite .NET to JavaScript compiler (cross browser API, client site controls and components). DotNetWebToolkit Toolkit providing a .NET CIL to JavaScript transcoder and Visual Studio project/debugging integration Netjs .NET to TypeScript and JavaScript compiler. It uses multiple stages to produce JavaScript for your web apps. WootzJs C# to Javascript cross-compiler built on top of Microsoft Roslyn, which handles the complex process of converting your C# code into syntax trees with symbol information DuoCode C#-to-JavaScript compiler powered by Microsoft Roslyn Bridge.NET Open Source C#-to-JavaScript compiler using Microsoft Roslyn . Includes support for jQuery + many other frameworks. Developed and well supported by a professional team. Try online at Deck.NET . Fable F# to JavaScript Compiler

Lisp, Scheme

Clojure-like

Name Description ClojureScript Clojure to JS, the official version. Supports the majority of Clojure including persistent datastructures. ClojureJS Subset of Clojure to JS. Chlorinejs A fork of ClojureJS with a port of clojure.core library. wisp A homoiconic JavaScript dialect with Clojure syntax, S-expressions and macros. Aims to be rich subset of Clojure(Script) that seamlessly interops with both Clojure(Script) and JavaScript. [○](#friends-philosophically-related “this item appears twice in this list; jump to its other instance”) Scriptjure Library for generating JavaScript from Clojure forms. ki Clojure-like syntax, mori ’s immutable data structures in a few sweet.js macros. Can be intermixed with JavaScript. [○](#friends-philosophically-related “this item appears twice in this list; jump to its other instance”)

Scheme-like

Name Description BiwaScheme Scheme(R6RS) in JavaScript Fargo Scheme in JavaScript Moby Scheme A Scheme running in JS. nconc Scheme interpreter in JavaScript with stack-friendly tail calls and full call/cc Scheje A Little Scheme on Top of Clojure - compiles on Node.js and the Browser. scheme2js Scheme to JavaScript. Spock A Scheme to JavaScript compiler that uses Henry Baker’s Cheney-on-the-MTA compilation strategy Whalesong Racket to JS compiler RacketScript Lightweight Racket to JavaScript compiler. The generated code is ES6, which can be translated to ES5 using Babel or Traceur. urlang A nanopass compiler accepting Racket-like syntax

Other

Name Description eslisp An S-expression syntax for ECMAScript/JavaScript, with Lisp-like hygienic macros that are just JS functions. Aims to be very close to JS, and highly experimental. EdgeLisp A Lisp in the tradition of Common Lisp Parenscript Subset of Common Lisp to JS. Ralph Lisp-1 dialect that compiles to JavaScript, inspired by Dylan Oppo A JavaScripter’s lisp. Inspired by JavaScript, Clojure and CoffeeScript. Compiler built using Jison . LispyScript A JavaScript with Lispy syntax and Macros. [○](#friends-philosophically-related “this item appears twice in this list; jump to its other instance”) Outlet A simple Lisp that supports CPS and in-browser stepping debugging, and other things. In development. Hot Cocoa Lisp A Lisp-like language that compiles to JavaScript. [○](#friends-philosophically-related “this item appears twice in this list; jump to its other instance”) Sibilant JavaScript with a lisp. [○](#friends-philosophically-related “this item appears twice in this list; jump to its other instance”) jisp A JS-native and axiomatic Lisp that focuses on the core ideas of code-as-data, S-expressions, and macros, introducing as few new concepts as possible. [○](#friends-philosophically-related “this item appears twice in this list; jump to its other instance”) JSCL A Lisp-to-Javascript compiler bootstrapped from Common Lisp

OCaml

Name Description Ocamljs OCaml to JS. O’Browser OCaml bytecode interpreter in JS. Js_of_ocaml OCaml bytecode to JS compiler. Bucklescript OCaml to readable JS

Haskell

Name Description UHC (Utrecht Haskell Compiler) backend converts UHC core to JavaScript, allowing the compiling of Haskell code to JS. ghcjs Compile normal Haskell into JS jmacro Quasi-Quoted JS that you can insert Haskell values into (there is also shakespeare-js for that purpose), but also supports a more Haskellish syntactic version of JavaScript. lambdascript Compile a subset of Haskell into JS YHC (York Haskell Compiler) backend, as above but with YHC core language. jshaskell haste fay A proper subset of Haskell that compiles to JavaScript forml A contemporary programming language intended to approximate the safety of Haskell and the expressiveness of Ruby.

Smalltalk

Name Description Amber Formerly known as Jtalk Clamato A Smalltalk dialect that is designed to operate within the JavaScript runtime. Silver Smalltalk [commercial?] Smalltalk in the browser. (Still active?) Lively Kernel Smalltalk/squeak-like development environment in the browser. See also Avocado , built on top of it. Little Smallscript Little Smalltalk to JavaScript translator. SqueakJS Squeak VM in Javascript PharoJS PharoJS is a Pharo to JavaScript compiler and infrastructure for remote test and debugging. The goal is to enable developing apps in Pharo while deploying them on top of a JavaScript engine.

C/C++

Name Description Emscripten LLVM to JavaScript compiler. LLVM is “an aggressive open-source compiler for C and C++,” as well as other languages. Cheerp (formerly Duetto) “compiles C++ applications to binary code and JavaScript. Based and integrated into the LLVM/clang infrastructure” maja Vala (gobject) to JavaScript Clue C language compiler to different runtimes (Lua, JS, Perl 5, C, Java, CL). LLJS Typed dialect of JavaScript that offers a C-like type system with manual memory management Mandreel Can convert C++ and Objective-C applications based on OpenGL ES to JavaScript or Action Script 3 web application. Bonsai-C Convert C code to asm.js

Basic

Name Description NS Basic/App Studio [commercial] Visual Basic-style BASIC to JavaScript compiler. Includes IDE. Targets iOS and Android qb.js An implementation of QBASIC in JavaScript Spiderbasic [commercial] SpiderBasic is new web client-side programming language based on established BASIC rules. Its main purpose is to allow development of very complex, windowed based web applications. It provides a large commandset to handle complex and reactive GUI, 2D games, and many more in a coherent manner. Monkey (see below)

Pascal, Modula, Oberon

Name Description Smart Mobile Studio [commercial] Object Pascal to JavaScript compiler and Delphi like IDE that brings classes, inheritance, interfaces and more to JavaScript Elevate Web Builder [commercial] Visual development tool for web applications that compiles standard Object Pascal source code into JavaScript Oberon 07 Translates Oberon to JavaScript code ready to be run in web browser or nodejs. Compiler itself is written in Oberon (with extensions) and compiled to JavaScript.

Go

Name Description Go2js Line-to-line translator from Go to JavaScript. GopherJS A compiler from Go to JavaScript. TARDISgo Compile Golang to Haxe (then on to JavaScript, Flash, Java, C++, C#, PHP, Python & Neko)

Multitarget

Name Description Haxe Compiles to several platforms (C++, Flash, JS, Neko, PHP, Java, C#, Python). Fantom Evolutionary object-oriented language emphasizing succinct and effective APIs (JVM, CLR, JS). LZX (Laszlo XML) LZX is OpenLaszlo’s declarative user interface language, which is compiled into JavaScript 2 as an intermediary format, and further compiled into either JavaScript 1.5 or ActionScript 3. Clue and jsc Target multiple runtimes in addition to JavaScript Nim Compiles to C, C++, Objective-C, and JavaScript Monkey A Basic-like programming language that compiles to several platforms (JavaScript, ActionScript 3, C++, Java, C#). The main application/game framework is [commercial]. defrac Compiles Java bytecode to several platforms (including JavaScript) Ć Programming Language Automatically translated to C, Java, C#, JavaScript, ActionScript, Perl and D. Skew A web-first, cross-platform programming language with an optimizing compiler (compiles to JS and C++)

Tierless languages (produce both client & server)

Name Description Fun A programming language for realtime webapps – compiles to client-side and server-side JS. Ur In the tradition of ML and Haskell. mobl The new language for programming the mobile web. E Compiles E to JS. E is a secure distributed persistent pure object language. Sugar New programming language designed to replace JavaScript for client-side (and server-side) web development Opa Write your complete application in just one language, and the compiler will transform it into a self-sufficient executable STIP.js Slicing Tierless Programs in JavaScript

Visual programming tools

Name Description Waterbear Tool for making Scratch-inspired block-based languages on the web. Examples include blocks for JavaScript, ProcessingJS, NodeJS, and more. Snap JavaScript of BYOB, which is a fork of Scratch ScriptBlocks Illumination [Commercial] Visual, cross-platform tool creates apps for Android, iPhone, iPad, Desktops and HTML5 or Flash websites. The I language underlies the tool. JsMaker Visual JavaScript programming Meemoo Flow-based visual programming framework for hackable web apps NoFlo JavaScript implementation of Flow-Based Programming. Programs (network graphs) can be visually created with DrawFBP Blockly Web-based, graphical programming language. Users can drag blocks together to build an application Maeda Block Visual game programming language powered by enchant.js and Google Blockly. See also the Japanese version .

SQL

Name Description sql-parser sqld3 Alasql SQL to JavaScript parser and compiler sql.js SQLite compiled to javascript RBQL SQL-like language that compiles to JavaScript and Python

PHP

Name Description phype Run PHP code directly in your browser uniter Run PHP code in Node.js or the browser php.js PHP VM with JavaScript, allow to run PHP code in Node.js or the browser

Prolog

Name Description prolog.js Prolog parser, compiler, and interpreter in JavaScript Yield Prolog Compiles Prolog into JavaScript, C#, and Python Tau Prolog Prolog interpreter in JavaScript

Others

Name Description Pyret A teaching language that runs in the browser. Oia A port of Io to JavaScript. Plaid A gradually-typed, typestate-oriented language designed as a better Java. Quixe A Glulx VM interpreter written in JavaScript Gnusto A Z-Machine VM interpreter written in JavaScript Logo Interpreter Reb2Static Rebol to JavaScript RPN Interpreter for a language with a Reverse Polish Notation syntax. jsForth wForth Agda A dependently typed functional programming language and mechanized proof assistant XLCC Interpret LCC into JavaScript on node SMLtoJs SML to JavaScript compiler lua.js Lua parser Brozula Lua bytecode interpreter Pygmy A dynamic language that compiles to JavaScript designed to be readable but concise enough to be competitive in code golf. ErlyJS JavaScript to Erlang compiler Topaz Rebol inspired language on top of JavaScript NGN APL APL-to-JavaScript compiler written in CoffeeScript CobolScript COBOL language compiler to JavaScript. Idris Dependently typed functional language with a JavaScript backend. Wortel J/APL inspired language with Polish Notation, compiles to JavaScript. oK K5 implementation on top of Javascript. JEnglish Interprets regular English statements into HTML/CSS uilang & uiscript Simple UI-focused script languages for web designers Hodor Hodor programming language L2 A simple, table-based language for data analysis YoptaScript Language for gopniks (post-Soviet aggressive young lower-class suburban male dwellers coming from families of poor education and income)

Tools for Compiler Writers

JavaScript Parsers and Extensions

Name Description Narcissus Mozilla’s experimental JavaScript compiler in JavaScript by Brendan Eich and others. CommonJS version in DoctorJS Jasy: Python port of Narcissus with some enhancements PyNarcissus Narcissus’s parser ported to Python (used in pyjon ) rbnarcissus Narcissus’ parser ported to Ruby. Traceur Google’s vehicle for JavaScript Language Design Experimentation EcmaScript 5 Parser (es-lab) EcmaScript 5 Parser (qfox) reflect.js Implementation of Mozilla’s (SpiderMonkey) Parser API in JavaScript bdParse A JavaScript LL(1) parser in JavaScript parse-js Common Lisp JavaScript parser ZeParser Esprima Educational (but fast) ECMAScript parser with output compatible to Mozilla Parser API js.js A JavaScript JavaScript interpreter. Instead of trying to create an interpreter from scratch, SpiderMonkey is compiled into LLVM and then emscripten translates the output into JavaScript. sweet.js Brings hygienic macros to JavaScript. Lets you write extensions to JavaScript that must be invoked by the user. smpl.js The first compiler built for the purpose of transpiling first. acorn A small, fast, JavaScript-based JavaScript parser Babel Turn your ES6+ code into ES5 friendly code

JavaScript Optimizers

Name Description Closure Compiler An optimizing compiler. Can generate a (line/col)-number mappings file. UglifyJS

JavaScript Parser Generators

Name Description jison Bison in JavaScript, used by CoffeeScript nearley A fast, lightweight Earley parser generator OMeta/JS Metacompiler for many languages to many targets, including js. ( source ) PEG.js Parser generator for JavaScript based on the parsing expression grammar formalism languagejs PEG parser written in JavaScript with first class errors Canopy Self-hosting PEG parser compiler for JavaScript, influenced by Ruby parser generators such as Treetop and Citrus JS/CC LALR(1) parser generator jsparse PEG by Grandmaster Chris Double ReParse Parser combinator library for JavaScript like Haskell’s Parsec p4js Monadic parser library for JavaScript JSGLR Scannerless, Generalized Left-to-right Rightmost (SGLR) derivation parser for JavaScript ANTLR 3 Has a JavaScript target. ANTLR 4 has not implemented its JavaScript target yet . Cruiser.Parse LL(k) parser MetaCoffee PEG parser using CoffeeScript and white-space-significant syntax Bennu Parsec inspired Javascript parser combinator library. bison-lalr1.js JavaScript skeleton for Bison GNU Parser Generator

JavaScript AST, Semantics

Name Description WebAssembly W3C cross-browser collaboration on a new, portable, size- and load-time-efficient format suitable for compilation to the web. Closure Compiler AST Documentation SpiderMonkey Parser API See also reflect.js above. The AST interface specification is succeeded by the ESTree specification effort. ESTree Specification An effort to better standardize an AST specification based on the original Spidermonkey Parser API. It is used by Acorn, Esprima, and SpiderMonkey’s own parser. This succeeds the original SpiderMonkey Parser API’s AST specification. Shift JavaScript AST Specification See this blog post with more information JsonML AST Format used by the es5 parser treehugger JavaScript AST transformation tools JavaScript Shaper JavaScript syntax tree shaping burrito & js-traverse See this post for more info, as well as node-stackedy for an example and node-browserify for running it in a browser instead of node falafel Transform the ast on a recursive walk rocambole Inspired by burrito & falafel, recursively walk and transform EcmaScript AST JavaScript types Lambdajs and flow typing SourceMap Map JavaScript debugger output to original source Zeon A static visual JavaScript analyzer / editor. See also ZeParser . escodegen JavaScript code generator esmangle Minifier for Mozilla Parser API AST estraverse ECMAScript traversal functions from esmangle project ecma-ast AST node data structures for ECMAScript 5.1 based on the SpiderMonkey Parser API esast Slow compilation? Use typed data for fast AST construction and rendering. Compatible with JSON trees following estree . Astring Tiny and fast JavaScript code generator from an ESTree-compliant AST.