Jint Unity

Jint Unity provides an easy way to install Jint trough the package manager and execute javascript in Unity

➕ Installation

• Open Unity Package Manager window.
• Click the add + button in the status bar.
• The options for adding packages appear.
• Select Add package from git URL from the add menu. A text box and an Add button appear.
• Enter the https://github.com/magicblock-labs/Jint-Unity.git Git URL in the text box and click Add.
• Once the package is installed, in the Package Manager inspector you will have Samples. Click on Import
• You may also install a specific package version by using the URL with the specified version.
  • https://github.com/magicblock-labs/Jint-Unity.git#vX.Y.X
  • Please note that the version X.Y.Z stated here is to be replaced with the version you would like to get.
  • You can find all the available releases here.
  • The latest available release version is

Usage

Example 1

var square = new Engine()
    .SetValue("x", 3) // define a new variable
    .Evaluate("x * x") // evaluate a statement
    .ToObject();
Debug.Log(square);

Example 2

Engine js = new Engine();
js.SetValue("Console",typeof(Debug));
js.Execute("function Compute() { const a = 3; const res = a * a; Console.Log('Js computation: ' + res); }");
js.Invoke("Compute");

Example 3

Loading a script:

var source = new StreamReader(Application.dataPath + "/Resources/" + "main.js");
string script = source.ReadToEnd();
source.Close();
js.Execute(script);

Dependencies

Script with dependencies can be bundled using webpack or rollup, see this tutorial for reference.