jBatch Rapidest web development*)

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jBatch is a JavaScript library to run batch scripts in browsers. Batch scripts consist of commands which are executed one after another. As commands are implemented with JavaScript, they can do about anything. Whether it’s running animations, accessing web services or displaying charts — everything is just one command away. jBatch is the one unified interface for everything what’s possible on the web today.

Get started

1. Link jBatch

2. Add script

<script type="text/jbatch">
</script>

3. Invoke commands

Command Example Description
after echo <h2>Hello, world!</h2> | after h1 Insert data after an element
ajax ajax --type GET http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=Los+Angeles Send an Ajax HTTP request
appendTo echo <small>Hello, world!</small> | appendTo h1 Append data to an element
audio audio http://example.com/myAudioFile.mp3 Create an audio element
autoplay audio http://example.com/myAudioFile.mp3 | autoplay Set autoplay property
before echo <h1>Hello, world!</h1> | before h2 Insert data before an element
bootstrap bootstrap Use Bootstrap layout
bounce bounce in h1 Bounce an element
controls audio http://example.com/myAudioFile.mp3 | controls Set controls property
coverBackground video http://example.com/myVideoFile.webm | coverBackground Stretch out an element in the background
disqus disqus --appendTo body MyWebsite Embed a Disqus forum
echo echo Hello, world! | log Write arguments to context output
every every 1000 { echo Another second passed | log } Execute commands periodically
exec exec echo Hello, world! Execute commands from a string
fade fade in h1 Fade an element
flip flip in-x h1 Flip an element
fx fx --from USD --to EUR 100 | appendTo body Convert currencies
ga ga create UA-12345678-9; ga send pageview Measure with Google Analytics
get get http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=Los+Angeles Send an Ajax HTTP GET request
golem Query Golem.de
highchart Create charts
highlight highlight pre>code Highlight source code
jscall jscall MyJavaScriptFunction Call a JavaScript function
jsonMask omdb Whiplash | jsonMask Plot | log Run an XPath-like query against a JSON object
jsonPath Run a JSONPath query against a JSON object
jsonToString omdb Whiplash | jsonToString | appendTo body Stringify a JSON object
jsonp Make a JSONP call
lightspeed lightspeed in-right h1 Animate an element with lightspeed
log echo Hello, world! | log Send data to the browser's console window
loop Set loop property
matchRegex Match a string against a regular expression
omdb omdb terminator Query Open Movie Database
onclick onclick button { echo Click! | log } Execute commands when a mouse button is clicked
onsubmit Execute commands when a form is submitted
parseHTML Parse HTML
parseJSON Parse JSON
parseXML parseXML <foo><bar>quo</bar></foo> | log Parse XML
post Send an Ajax HTTP POST request
preload preload echo Preload a command
prependTo echo Hello, world! | prependTo h1 Prepend data to an element
random Generate a random number
roll roll in h1 Roll an element
rotate rotate in h1 Rotate an element
run Execute a batch file
sleep sleep 1000; echo Slept a second! | log Halt execution for some time
twitter twitter follow --appendTo body iomash Create a Twitter button
video video http://example.com/myVideoFile.webm Create a video element
wandbox wandbox --compiler python-2.7.3 --code "print('Hello!')" Compile and run code online
webcam webcam | appendTo body Create a webcam element
wikipedia wikipedia JavaScript | log Query Wikipedia
xmlToString xmlDoc | xmlToString | appendTo body Stringify an XML document
xpath getDocument | xpath //title | log Run an XPath query against an XML document
youtube youtube 'david guetta' | log Query Youtube
zoom zoom out --direction down h1 Zoom an element

Get help

Documentation

For more details about how jBatch works, check GitHub.

Questions

Post your questions on Stack Overflow and tag them with “jbatch”.

Examples

There is a growing list of examples tagged with “jbatch” at CodePen.

Support

Commercial support is available for early adopters. Please contact us at jbatch@iomash.com.

Get involved

Bugs

Please report bugs on GitHub.

Join

We need more commands, and we need more powerful commands! Head over to GitHub and send us your pull requests.

Get answers

What is jBatch good for?

jBatch greatly simplifies access to tons of “things” web developers need access to. Things (let’s call them resources from now on) can be quite different — web services, animations, charts… anything which is beyond plain simple HTML. Usually it depends on each and every resource how it is accessed. And that means again and again spending time learning how to access resources and copying/pasting implementation details around like JavaScript code, CSS stylesheets, fonts and whatever else is required.

jBatch introduces one interface to get access to everything — any resource on the internet. With jBatch everything becomes a command. Stop spending time learning how to access resources exactly and worrying about implementation details — just run commands.

Think of jBatch being the command line interface for the web. If you are familiar with shells, then you are very much accustomed to running commands. You want to get stuff done and don’t care how commands are implemented and work. jBatch brings this user experience to the web. This doesn’t mean that a programming language like JavaScript goes away — shells and command line utilities didn’t make programming languages disappear either. But they make access to lots of things easier for tons of users.

Is jBatch a programming language?

JavaScript is the programming language of the web, and jBatch does not intend to compete with or replace JavaScript. For example, jBatch does not support any control flow statements like if or while.

Think of jBatch as a layer on top of JavaScript. While JavaScript is the programming language for the web, jBatch is the batch language for the web. jBatch runs commands which are implemented with JavaScript and can use other resources like CSS or fonts. But on the layer above where jBatch lives these things don’t matter. jBatch users run commands which let them more easily express what they want.

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