Scala.js, a Scala to JavaScript compiler

Scala.js compiles Scala code to JavaScript, allowing you to write your Web application entirely in Scala!

Noteworthy features are:

• Support all of Scala (including macros!), modulo a few semantic differences
• Very good interoperability with JavaScript code. For example, use jQuery and HTML5 from your Scala.js code, either in a typed or untyped way. Or create Scala.js objects and call their methods from JavaScript.
• Integrated with sbt (including support for dependency management and incremental compilation)
• Can be used with your favorite IDE for Scala
• Generates Source Maps for a smooth debugging experience (step through your Scala code from within your browser supporting source maps)
• Integrates Google Closure Compiler for producing minimal code for production.

Resources

• Website
• Mailing list

Get started

We provide a bootstrapping application which you can fork to kick off your own project. Its readme provides further explanations on how to do so.

Contribute

Get the code

Get the code with git. Beware that this repo contains one submodule, which you need to clone too. To do this, add the --recursive option when cloning. If you've already cloned this repo, cd into it and do:

$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update

Compile

Scala.js uses sbt for its build process. To compile your fork, simply run:

sbt> package

Run the test suite

Compile and run the test suite with

sbt> scalajs-test/test

(you must have run package before running the test suite)

Test the examples

After having compiled Scala.js, you can compile the example applications with:

sbt> examples/optimizeJS

(you must have run package before compiling the examples)

Then, you can "execute" them by opening their respective HTML files in your favorite browser. Since optimizing the JavaScript takes time (tens of seconds to several minutes, depending on your hardware), it is also possible not to optimize JS by doing instead:

sbt> examples/packageJS

In this case, you have to open the -dev version of the HTML files.

Currently, two examples are provided:

• examples/helloworld/helloworld.html, saying Hello World in four different ways (using DOM or jQuery, and using the untyped or typed interface to JavaScript).
• examples/reversi/reversi.html, an implementation of a Reversi game. Note that it uses the HTML5 Canvas element, so it won't work with Internet Explorer 8 or below.

Use your fork with your own projects

Simply publish it locally with:

sbt> publishLocal

License

Scala.js is distributed under the Scala License.