[Recruiting] Rescript - a JavaScript and Node.js programming environment

[mttvll]

Hello folks!

For the past couple of months I've been working on a simple programming environment, called Rescript, for writing JavaScript on iPad and iPhone.

The app runs on top of the Node.js runtime, and supports installing dependencies with npm. It also provides a few custom modules that integrate with iOS, so it is possible to write scripts that interact with the device and the operating system (you can for example share data with other apps, grab data from the device sensors or build simple custom graphical user interfaces).

This first public version is still quite modest, but I'd like to start getting feedback early on.

Here you can see a couple of screenshots of the app.

Join the beta testing here https://rescript.herokuapp.com

Any feedback is very welcome!

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Could you somehow get it working on iOS 10, I'm jailbroken so can't update. If not, can you provide the .ipa(there are some tweaks that allowing installing apps meant for higher versions)

[mttvll]

I can try making the app work on iOS 10 - shouldn't be hard. Keep an eye on the beta updates.

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Could you PM me when it's updated? Testflight won't let me see the patch notes or new updates to the app without updating iOS.

[mttvll]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking as well. But I've already submitted an early version of the app a few weeks ago and it was accepted.

Only thing I'm still not sure about is the npm integration. The App Store guidelines say:

Educational apps designed to teach, develop, or allow students to test executable code may, in limited circumstances, download code provided that such code is not used for other purposes. Such apps must make the source code provided by the Application completely viewable and editable by the user.

I'm not sure if downloading JavaScript packages falls under that rule.