IJavascript provides a Javascript kernel for the Jupyter project. Its code is currently split into 3 npm packages: ijavascript, nel and jmp.
ijavascriptIJavascript provides the command, ijs, which is a link to bin/ijavascript.js and is used to install the Javascript kernel and invoke the Jupyter notebook.
The Javascript kernel is implemented in lib/kernel.js by means of the Kernel class. The CoffeeScript kernel, jp-coffeescript, and the Babel kernel, jp-babel, share a significant amount of the code with lib/kernel.js. To facilitate the reuse of this shared code, the Kernel class will be moved into its own npm package in the near future.
The Kernel class depends on the npm packages, nel and jmp.
nelThe nel package defines Session, a class that upon instantiation starts a small Node.js server, lib/nel_server.js. The Session instance and lib/nel_server.js communicate by means of an IPC channel. The Session instance sends lib/nel_server.js three strings per request: action, code and id. action is a string that determines the type of request: execution, completion or inspection. code is a string with the Javascript code to be executed, completed or inspected. And id is a string that identifies the request. lib/nel_server.js responds to the request with either a SuccessResult or an ErrorResult. Each response contains the property id set to the request id, so that the Session instance can invoke the callbacks associated with the request.
The interface between the classes Kernel and Session is documented here.
jmpThe jmp package is wrapper around the package node-zmq that transparently encodes/decodes Jupyter-protocol messages over a ZMQ socket. See the JSDoc-generated documentation here for further details.