Subj : Re: Learning JS with Synchronet
To   : Massacre
From : Tracker1
Date : Fri Nov 06 2020 01:01 pm

On 11/5/2020 1:30 PM, Massacre wrote:
> I am looking to write some stuff for SAynchronet and have a
> background in C, BASIC, Python, etc.  Is there a barebones
> "skeleton" code somewhere in Js that I could tinker with that
> has basic fundamentals to test/learn with?

Would keep the Synchronet JavaScript Object Model reference bookmarked.

http://www.synchro.net/docs/jsobjs.html

Most of that is pretty easy to understand... would look in the various 
JS files in exec/load etc.... anything you edit, just put in an 
sbbs/mods/ directory, which will load in practice ahead of the exec paths.

For general JavaScript, would take a look at Eloquent JavaScript.

https://eloquentjavascript.net/

I wouldn't consider the modules section much, as Synchronet doesn't 
follow either CommonJS or ESM modules, it predates them both.  The 
Asynchronous programming part also doesn't apply to Synchronet.

Synchronet uses, iirc, SpiderMonkey 1.8.5 engine, which should be all of 
ES5 (2009), with a couple bits from ES6/ES2015 that were in development 
(very little)... so you may come across unsupported methods or syntax in 
practice looking at other JS code.

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Michael J. Ryan
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