Minimal golang binding to V8. This exposes a non-blocking message passing
interface to the V8 javascript engine. Go and JavaScript interact by sending
and receiving messages. V8 will block a thread (goroutine) only while it
computes javascript - it has no "syscalls" other than sending and receiving
messages to Go. There are only three built in functions exposed to javascript:
$print(string)
, $send(msg)
, and $recv(callback)
.
MIT License. Contributions welcome.
You will need chrome's depot_tools
to build. Follow the instructions here
https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/install-depot-tools
Run make
to trigger a download and build of V8. make install
will trigger
go install
. V8 is statically linked. It's only been tested on my OSX laptop
so far - should be easily portable to linux tho.
make test
to build/run tests. Or just go test
.
To build a debug version use target=x64.debug make
From golang checkout the API here: https://godoc.org/github.com/ry/v8worker
From Javascript you only have:
$print(string)
$send(msg)
$recv(callback)
.
See worker_test.go
for example usage for now.
- more tests
- need ability to pass command line options to V8 when creating a worker (maybe before)
- way to kill worker
- get text of exception