What’s JSBox?

JSBox is an Integrated Development Environment for JavaScript. You can learn to code JavaScript here, as we provide tons of utilities to enhance the development experience.

JSBox is amazing for both beginners and experienced engineers. Don’t you wanna try it out?

Don’t hesitate to create cool stuff—do it now!

Examples

These examples will help you understand what we can do with JSBox; they are all made in JavaScript:

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Image searching

Realtime currency calculator

Tip calculator

What can JSBox do?

Of course you can write JavaScript, but the most important thing is that you can create native iOS utilities, such as:

Upload photos you have just taken to the server
Create a widget to check bus information
Schedule tasks by leveraging date-based or location-based notifications
Design an extension for the Photos app to search photos directly
Make a real-time tool to query the exchange rate
Collect your most important contacts and handle it on the widget

There are many possibilities; we believe you can create coolest stuff.

What’s in JSBox?

JSBox is not only a full-fledged environment for standard JavaScript, but also provides many utilities:

A safe environment to run JavaScript natively with incredible performance
A beautiful editor to write JavaScript, multiple themes, auto completions and snippets…
A VSCode extension to write code extremely fast and comfortable
Several APIs to interact with iOS, detailed documents are provided
Almost all the cool tech in iOS: Today Widget, Action Extension, 3D Touch, Home Screen Shortcut…

We are still working on it and will introduce cooler features in the future.

vscode-jsbox: JSBox Development Utilities on VSCode
react-jsbox: A Custom React Renderer for writing JSBox apps in React
jsbox-cli: CLI version of JSBox VSCode extension
jsbox-cli-plus: Another CLI version of JSBox VSCode extension
jsbox_pc_debuger: JSBox logging utility on your PC
jsbox-ksc: Keyconfig experience on web-based rich text editors in iOS

If you have something interesting and want to join the list, feel free to open a PR!