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With Node.js, Deno or Bun there are so many JavaScript environments to choose from. However, nothing is as good as the browser environment. bx
gives you an execution runtime for the browser.
With bx
you can easily run this script within different browser environments:
> echo "console.log(navigator.userAgent)" &> script.js
> npx bx ./script.js
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
You can easily switch browsers via the --browserName
parameter:
> npx bx ./script.js --browserName firefox
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:121.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/121.0
It even allows you to run .html
files, e.g. given this file:
<script type="module">
console.log(document.querySelector('b').textContent);
</script>
<b>Hello World!</b>
Running this with bx
results in:
> npx bx ./html.html
Hello World!
FAQs
Command line tool to run JavaScript, TypeScript or HTML files in the browser.
The npm package bx receives a total of 52 weekly downloads. As such, bx popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that bx demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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