beicause / ecmascript

Javascript binding for godotengine

GodotJS - JavaScript language binding for Godot game engine

This module implements JavaScript/TypeScript language support for the Godot game engine using QuickJS as the JavaScript engine.

Features

• Almost complete ES2020 support
• All Godot API available
• Operator overriding for built-in types (Vector3, Color, etc)
• TypeScript support
• Using third-party libraries from npm
• Multi-thread support with Worker API
• Full code completion support for all Godot APIs including signals and enumerations
• Debug in Visual Studio Code with the plugin - currently not available for 4.x

Getting started

Read the getting-started.

Getting the engine

No installation or setup necessary. The binaries for download are the complete, usable Godot editor and engine with JavaScript/TypeScript language support.

Binary downloads

Download the binaries from the release page.

Compiling from source

• Clone the source code of godot:
  • git clone [email protected]:godotengine/godot.git or
  • git clone https://github.com/godotengine/godot.git
• This branch uses version 4.1 so checkout the version with: git checkout 4.1
• Clone this module and put it into godot/modules/javascript:
  • git clone [email protected]:Geequlim/ECMAScript.git godot/modules/javascript or
  • git clone https://github.com/Geequlim/ECMAScript.git godot/modules/javascript
• Recompile the godot engine
  • Use scons with those additional options warnings=extra werror=yes module_text_server_fb_enabled=yes to show all potential errors:
    • Windows: scons platform=windows warnings=extra werror=yes module_text_server_fb_enabled=yes
    • MacOS: scons platform=macos arch=arm64 warnings=extra werror=yes module_text_server_fb_enabled=yes

Documentation, Tutorials & Demos

Read this documentation or look at the tutorials or demos:

• ECMAScriptDemos - Demos
• godot-ECMAScript-cookbook - Tutorial
• godot-typescript-starter - Template
• godot-js-template - Template