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[Paulo Lopes]

The ES4X the polyglot JavaScript side of Eclipse Vert.x is also open to ideas and PRs.

reactiverse / es4x

EcmaScript Language Support for Eclipse Vert.x

ES4X

This is the EcmaScript (5.1+) language support for Eclipse Vert.x

Usage

# add es4x-pm globally
npm install -g es4x-pm

Create a project:

# create a generic project
mkdir my-app
cd my-app
# init the project
es4x init
# add other dependencies
npm install @vertx/unit --save-dev
npm install @vertx/core --save-prod
# will trigger the download
# of the java dependencies
npm install

Create your index.js:

/// <reference types="@vertx/core/runtime" />
// @ts-check
vertx
  .createHttpServer()
  .requestHandler(function (req) {
    req.response().end("Hello!")
  })
  .listen(8080);

console.log('Server listening at: http://localhost:8080/');

and your index.test.js:

import { TestSuite } from '@vertx/unit'
const suite = TestSuite.create("the_test_suite");

suite.test("my_test_case", function (context) {
  var

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I'll ( @pml0pes) volunteer to mentor anyone who would like to contribute.