bare-script

BareScript is a simple, lightweight, and portable programming language. Its Pythonic syntax is influenced by JavaScript, C, and the Unix Shell. BareScript also has a library of built-in functions for common programming operations. BareScript can be embedded within applications or used as a stand-alone programming language using the command-line interface.

There are two implementations of BareScript: BareScript for JavaScript (this package) and BareScript for Python. Both implementations have 100% unit test coverage with identical unit test suites, so you can be confident that BareScript will execute the same regardless of the underlying runtime environment.

Links

• The BareScript Language
• The BareScript Library
• The BareScript Expression Library
• API Documentation
• Source code

Executing BareScript Scripts

To execute a BareScript script, parse the script using the parseScript function. Then execute the script using the executeScript function or the executeScriptAsync function. For example:

import {executeScript} from 'bare-script/lib/runtime.js';
import {parseScript} from 'bare-script/lib/parser.js';

// Parse the script
const script = parseScript(`\
# Double a number
function double(n):
    return n * 2
endfunction

return N + ' times 2 is ' + double(N)
`);

// Execute the script
const globals = {'N': 10};
console.log(executeScript(script, {globals}));

This outputs:

10 times 2 is 20

The BareScript Library

The BareScript Library includes a set of built-in functions for mathematical operations, object manipulation, array manipulation, regular expressions, HTTP fetch and more. The following example demonstrates the use of the systemFetch, objectGet, and arrayLength functions.

import {executeScriptAsync} from 'bare-script/lib/runtimeAsync.js';
import {parseScript} from 'bare-script/lib/parser.js';

// Parse the script
const script = parseScript(`\
# Fetch the BareScript library documentation JSON
docs = jsonParse(systemFetch('https://craigahobbs.github.io/bare-script/library/library.json'))

# Return the number of library functions
return 'The BareScript Library has ' + arrayLength(objectGet(docs, 'functions')) + ' functions'
`);

// Execute the script
console.log(await executeScriptAsync(script, {'fetchFn': fetch}));

This outputs:

The BareScript Library has 105 functions

Evaluating BareScript Expressions

To evaluate a BareScript expression, parse the expression using the parseExpression function. Then evaluate the expression using the evaluateExpression function or the evaluateExpressionAsync function.

Expression evaluation includes the BareScript Expression Library, a set of built-in, spreadsheet-like functions.

For example:

import {evaluateExpression} from 'bare-script/lib/runtime.js';
import {parseExpression} from 'bare-script/lib/parser.js';

// Parse the expression
const expr = parseExpression('2 * max(a, b, c)');

// Evaluate the expression
const variables = {'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3};
console.log(evaluateExpression(expr, null, variables))

This outputs:

6

The BareScript Command-Line Interface (CLI)

You can run BareScript from the command line using the BareScript CLI, "bare". BareScript script files use the ".bare" file extension.

bare script.bare

Note: In the BareScript CLI, import statements and the systemFetch function read non-URL paths from the local file system. systemFetch calls with a non-URL path and a request body write the body to the path.

MarkdownUp, a Markdown Viewer with BareScript

MarkdownUp is a Markdown Viewer that executes BareScript embedded within Markdown documents. MarkdownUp extends its standard library with functions for dynamically rendering Markdown text, drawing SVG images, etc.

For example:

# Markdown Application

This is a Markdown document with embedded BareScript:

~~~ markdown-script
markdownPrint('Hello, Markdown!')
~~~

Development

This package is developed using javascript-build. It was started using javascript-template as follows:

template-specialize javascript-template/template/ bare-script/ -k package bare-script -k name 'Craig A. Hobbs' -k email '[email protected]' -k github 'craigahobbs' -k noapp 1