Subj : Re: Learning JS with Synchronet
To   : Tracker1
From : Massacre
Date : Fri Nov 13 2020 03:39 am

  Re: Re: Learning JS with Synchronet
  By: Tracker1 to Massacre on 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.
 >
 > --
 > Michael J. Ryan
 > tracker1 +o Roughneck BBS
 >
Thank you!  I will take a look and dig in.

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