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jsii
Artifacts are distributable versions of a package. It typically includes the source code and metadata
Advanced tools
- Version
- 1.124.0
- Maintainers
- 3
Overview
jsii allows code in any language to naturally interact with JavaScript classes. It is the technology that enables the
AWS Cloud Development Kit to deliver polyglot libraries from a single codebase!
A class library written in TypeScript can be used in projects authored in TypeScript or Javascript (as usual), but also in Python, Java, C# (and other languages from the .NET family), ...
:question: Documentation
Head over to our documentation website!
The jsii toolchain is spread out on multiple repositories:
- aws/jsii-compiler is where the
jsiicompiler is maintained - aws/jsii-rosetta is where the
jsii-rosettasample code transliteration tool is maintained - aws/jsii is where the rest of the toolchain is maintained, including:
- The jsii runtime libraries for the supported jsii target languages
@jsii/spec, the package that defines the.jsiiassembly specificationjsii-pacmak, the bindings generator for jsii packagesjsii-reflect, a higher-level way to process.jsiiassembliesjsii-config, an interactive tool to help configure your jsii package
:book: Blog Posts
Here's a collection of blog posts (in chronological order) related to jsii:
- 2020-01-11: How to Create CDK Constructs, by Matthew Bonig
- 2020-05-27: Generate Python, Java, and .NET software libraries from a TypeScript source, by Hari Pachuveetil
- 2020-12-23: How the jsii open source framework meets developers where they are, by Romain Marcadier
:information_source: If you wrote blog posts about
jsiiand would like to have them referenced here, do not hesitate to file a pull request to add the links here!
:gear: Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.
Contributors ✨
Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):
This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!
:balance_scale: License
jsii is distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
FAQs
Python client for jsii runtime
We found that jsii demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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