Modjs

modjs.org has the rudiments of an apache module to handle server side javascript using SpiderMonkey.

SpiderMonkey APIs and a tutorial. Apache Module APIs and a tutorial.

Would like MIME support, a global request/response object (both MIME trees I think), SQLite and MySQL support, and File IO Support (if its not already there). Also should have support for including other javascript sources. mod_js has an example for includes and some of the request/apache stuff. SpiderMonkey has an example shell that shows some support for File objects I think.

Would be nice to have libGD and/or ImageMagick support (EXIF too, if possible), as well as some sort of curl library to get to other sites to do stuff.

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Things we should have:

• Class for MIME objects and MIME headers.
• Object with server info (environment, log functionality)
• Object with request info (request string (full and broken up), incoming mime object, maybe cookies already broken up, etc.)
• Object with response info (outgoing mime object, print functionality, obstack stuff, way to set headers, etc)
• File class extensions, if needed
• Better include support (add to File)
• MySQL/SQLite classes and support (new classes probably needed here)
• system call support (put this on server)
• image manipulation support (new classes probably needed here)
• json support (maybe just some quick functions on the response (encode) /request (decode) ? or maybe better as a global)
• curl support (new class probably, using MIME stuff to send and receive, probably wrapped by request/response like objects.. maybe they should be classes, too.)
• Instead of bothering with curl, maybe just have a way to open a socket and read/write to it for now.

JS Class APIs:

• File (see File API)
• server object (see server API)
• TCPConnection
• DbConnection
• DbStatement (see DbConnection)
• ProcessConnection
• MimeHeader
• MimeEntity
• MailMessage
• HTTPRequest modified request API
• HTTPResponse modified response API
• global object (see global object extensions)

Things the module should do if it can:

• Cache compiled javascript code?
• Stay alive? Might already do this...
• Cached javascript context? Would this make sense?
• Cached session stuff? Do I really want/need this?