NativeScript (Node-API)

An embeddable, engine-agnostic NativeScript runtime based on Node-API and libffi.

This library allows any JavaScript engine or runtime that supports Node-API to access native APIs directly from JavaScript. At present, it supports accessing Objective-C APIs (thus most of the iOS and macOS SDKs). We hope to support other native APIs, such as the Java-based Android SDK, in future.

Initializing repo

The repo makes use of npm workspaces, so installation is straightforward.

npm install

Generating metadata

deno task metagen ios
deno task metagen macos

Building

deno task build macos
# or build for iOS
deno task build ios-universal

Run examples

node examples/foundation.js
# or
deno run -A examples/foundation.js

# ML Compute example
node examples/mlcompute.js

# AppKit related examples
node examples/appkit.js
node examples/split_view.js
node examples/view_controller.js
node examples/spritekit.js

Notes

Deno Node-API has an issue with napi_get_all_property_names.

Without a custom Deno build from the below PR, you can't use AppKit in Deno (works in Node).

Upstream PR: denoland/deno#19585

License

MIT licensed.

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