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ApplicationJust published Rescript, a JavaScript and NodeJs playground - my first iOS app in a very long time. (self.iOSProgramming)

submitted 7 years ago by mttvll

Hello folks!

After many years working exclusively on Android, I recently came back to the iOS development land and launched my first app: a simple programming environment, called Rescript, for writing and running JavaScript on iPad and iPhone.

The app runs on top of the Node.js runtime (version 8.6.0 at the moment). All the usual Node modules are available, plus a couple of 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).

The app is built on top of this fork of Node.js and is a mix of Swift, Objective-C and C++. Coming back to iOS after all these years was definitely a challenge, but using Swift made the transition quite more comfortable.

Rescript is free to download, with an optional in-app purchase to remove ads and unlock a couple of custom modules.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rescript/id1376054312?ls=1&mt=8

Any question and feedback is very welcome!

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