jay

Supercharged JavaScript REPL 😎

Jay is a terminal-based JavaScript REPL focused on increasing prototyping speed and productivity, it provides:

• require modules directly from the registry
• Eager eval (requires node >= 12.3.0)
• Top level await
• Typeahead + dropdown menu-style completion
• Colored input
• Bracket/quote pair completion
• Fresh require
• Full readline keybindings support
• Lazy loaded built-in modules
• _ variable

Get it:

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npm install -g jay-repl

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npx -p jay-repl jay

Sample usage:

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$ jay --help
node v12.0.3 [email protected] [email protected]
Type `> jay.help()` in the prompt for more information.
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