I wanted a convenient way to test out some javascript by running it in a browser and being able to play with it via an interpreter like python has. As it turns out the almighty Bob created a nice interpreter for playing around with Mochikit but I wanted something a bit more generic that would allow me to import any kind of javascript and play with it. It turns out this is really easy so I added one simple function to the interpreter.js file called importjs.

You just call importjs like so:

importjs(url);

This will import a javascript file from the url given. It’s a very simple function that just adds a script tag to the document wrapped in div tag. You can load up the interpreter and type importjs to see the code.

function (jssource) {
  importdiv = DIV();
  importdiv.innerHTML = "Importing " + jssource + " <script type='text/javascript' src='" + jssource + "'></script>";
  writeln(importdiv);
}

Check out the slightly modified interpreter here