Javascript outside the browser

I'm look开发者_如何学Pythoning at writing some code in Javascript to run as a command line program, unrelated to browsers or the Web; it would need access to files and directories as normal for a command line utility. What's the best Windows implementation of Javascript for this scenario, with regard to stability and performance?

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I would take a look at Nodejs

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I use jsdb or in windows cscript. In some editors (Editplus in my case, i've also use Aptana) you can configure running js-files directly from within the editor.

Ofcourse in jsfiddle.net you could create javascript unrelated to the browser (apart from the output, which can be [console.]logged or written to some div. In some cases it can be a problem that the code is evalled though.

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