Hunter

Hunter (standing for Hunter Useful and Nice Tool for ECMAScript Reengineering) is a tool to help understanding JavaScript applications via interactive visualizations.

Hunter runs on top of Pharo, a live programming environment.

How to use

We do not provide a ready to use distribution of Hunter, but it is simple to build from sources.

Build: Clone or download this repository and execute ./build.sh in a terminal (Powershell in Windows). Add --32bits argument if your system is 32-bits.

Start: Once the build finished, use ./start.sh to open the application. You can open a JavaScript project in two ways: click on the open button and choose the directory, or drag and drop it.

System requirements

Hunter runs under Linux, OS X, and Windows.
NodeJS (version >= 6) must be available in the PATH of your system.

Development

There are two main alternatives to get a Pharo image with Hunter loaded on it:

• Execute ./build.sh --dev in a terminal, then execute ./pharo-ui Pharo.image.
• Download a Pharo 7 image by yourself, then load the BaselineOfHunter.

For the second alternative, you can evaluate the following inside Pharo:

Metacello new
    baseline: 'Hunter';
    repository: 'github://dorellang/hunter:master/src';
    load.

License

The code is licensed under MIT.

Academia

Evaluating a Visual Approach for Understanding JavaScript Source Code, by Martín Dias, Diego Orellana, Santiago Vidal, Leonel Merino, Alexandre Bergel. Published at ICPC 2020 research. (Prepint)