io.js === [![Gitter](https://badges.gitter.im/Join Chat.svg)](https://gitter.im/iojs/io.js?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge&utm_content=badge) This repository began as a GitHub fork of [joyent/node](https://github.com/joyent/node). io.js contributions, releases, and contributorship are under an [open governance model](./CONTRIBUTING.md#governance). We intend to land, with increasing regularity, releases which are compatible with the npm ecosystem that has been built to date for node.js. ### Is it io.js or IO.js or iojs or IOjs or iOjS? The official name is **io.js**, which should never be capitalized, especially not at the start of a sentence, unless it is being displayed in a location that is customarily all-caps (such as the title of man pages.) ### To build: Prerequisites (Unix only): * `gcc` and `g++` 4.8 or newer, or * `clang` and `clang++` 3.3 or newer * Python 2.6 or 2.7 * GNU Make 3.81 or newer * libexecinfo (FreeBSD and OpenBSD only) Unix/Macintosh: ```sh ./configure make make install ``` If your python binary is in a non-standard location or has a non-standard name, run the following instead: ```sh export PYTHON=/path/to/python $PYTHON ./configure make make install ``` Prerequisites (Windows only): * Python 2.6 or 2.7 * Visual Studio 2013 for Windows Desktop, or * Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop Windows: ```sh vcbuild nosign ``` You can download pre-built binaries for various operating systems from [http://nodejs.org/download/](http://nodejs.org/download/). The Windows and OS X installers will prompt you for the location in which to install. The tarballs are self-contained; you can extract them to a local directory with: ```sh tar xzf /path/to/node---.tar.gz ``` Or system-wide with: ```sh cd /usr/local && tar --strip-components 1 -xzf \ /path/to/node---.tar.gz ``` ### To run the tests: Unix/Macintosh: ```sh make test ``` Windows: ```sh vcbuild test ``` ### To build the documentation: ```sh make doc ``` ### To read the documentation: ```sh man doc/node.1 ``` ### To build `Intl` (ECMA-402) support: *Note:* more docs, including how to reduce disk footprint, are on [the wiki](https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Intl). #### Use existing installed ICU (Unix/Macintosh only): ```sh pkg-config --modversion icu-i18n && ./configure --with-intl=system-icu ``` #### Build ICU from source: First: Unpack latest ICU [icu4c-**##.#**-src.tgz](http://icu-project.org/download) (or `.zip`) as `deps/icu` (You'll have: `deps/icu/source/...`) Unix/Macintosh: ```sh ./configure --with-intl=full-icu ``` Windows: ```sh vcbuild full-icu ``` Resources for Newcomers --- - [The Wiki](https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki) - [nodejs.org](http://nodejs.org/) - [how to install node.js and npm (node package manager)](http://www.joyent.com/blog/installing-node-and-npm/) - [list of modules](https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/modules) - [searching the npm registry](http://npmjs.org/) - [list of companies and projects using node](https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Projects,-Applications,-and-Companies-Using-Node) - [node.js mailing list](http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs) - irc chatroom, [#io.js on freenode.net](http://webchat.freenode.net?channels=io.js&uio=d4) - [community](https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Community) - [contributing](https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Contributing) - [big list of all the helpful wiki pages](https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/_pages)