This repository began as a GitHub fork of joyent/node.

io.js contributions, releases, and contributorship are under an open governance model. We intend to land, with increasing regularity, releases which are compatible with the npm ecosystem that has been built to date for Node.js.

The official name is io.js, which should never be capitalized, especially not at the start of a sentence, unless it is being displayed in a location that is customarily all-caps (such as the title of man pages.)

Prerequisites:

• gcc and g++ 4.8 or newer, or
• clang and clang++ 3.3 or newer
• Python 2.6 or 2.7
• GNU Make 3.81 or newer
• libexecinfo (FreeBSD and OpenBSD only)

$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

If your Python binary is in a non-standard location or has a non-standard name, run the following instead:

$ export PYTHON=/path/to/python
$ $PYTHON ./configure
$ make
$ make install

To run the tests:

$ make test

To build the documentation:

$ make doc

To read the documentation:

$ man doc/iojs.1

Prerequisites:

• Python 2.6 or 2.7
• Visual Studio 2013 for Windows Desktop, or
• Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop
• Basic Unix tools required for some tests, Git for Windows includes Git Bash and tools which can be included in the global PATH.

> vcbuild nosign

To run the tests:

> vcbuild test

Intl support is not enabled by default.

This option will build with "small" (English only) support, but the full Intl (ECMA-402) APIs. With --download=all it will download the ICU library as needed.

Unix / Macintosh:

$ ./configure --with-intl=small-icu --download=all

Windows:

> vcbuild small-icu download-all

The small-icu mode builds with English-only data. You can add full data at runtime.

Note: more docs are on the joyent/node wiki.

With the --download=all, this may download ICU if you don't have an ICU in deps/icu.

Unix / Macintosh:

$ ./configure --with-intl=full-icu --download=all

Windows:

> vcbuild full-icu download-all

The Intl object will not be available. This is the default at present, so this option is not normally needed.

Unix / Macintosh:

$ ./configure --with-intl=none

Windows:

> vcbuild intl-none

$ pkg-config --modversion icu-i18n && ./configure --with-intl=system-icu

You can find other ICU releases at the ICU homepage. Download the file named something like icu4c-**##.#**-src.tgz (or .zip).

Unix / Macintosh

# from an already-unpacked ICU:
$ ./configure --with-intl=[small-icu,full-icu] --with-icu-source=/path/to/icu

# from a local ICU tarball
$ ./configure --with-intl=[small-icu,full-icu] --with-icu-source=/path/to/icu.tgz

# from a tarball URL
$ ./configure --with-intl=full-icu --with-icu-source=http://url/to/icu.tgz

Windows

First unpack latest ICU to deps/icu icu4c-##.#-src.tgz (or .zip) as deps/icu (You'll have: deps/icu/source/...)

> vcbuild full-icu

• CONTRIBUTING.md
• GOVERNANCE.md
• IRC: #io.js on Freenode.net
• iojs/io.js on Gitter

The io.js project team comprises a group of core collaborators and a sub-group that forms the Technical Committee (TC) which governs the project. For more information about the governance of the io.js project, see GOVERNANCE.md.

• Isaac Z. Schlueter (@isaacs) <[email protected]> (Technical Committee)
• Ben Noordhuis (@bnoordhuis) <[email protected]> (Technical Committee)
• Bert Belder (@piscisaureus) <[email protected]> (Technical Committee)
• Fedor Indutny (@indutny) <[email protected]> (Technical Committee)
• Trevor Norris (@trevnorris) <[email protected]> (Technical Committee)
• Chris Dickinson (@chrisdickinson) <[email protected]> (Technical Committee)
• Colin Ihrig (@cjihrig) <[email protected]> (Technical Committee)
• Mikeal Rogers (@mikeal) <[email protected]>
• Rod Vagg (@rvagg) <[email protected]>

Collaborators follow the COLLABORATOR_GUIDE.md in maintaining the io.js project.