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I'm new in JavaScript, so excuse me if this question is not worth asking. I need a JavaScript Runtime Environment with some features:

  • Command line interface
  • Coffee Script compability
  • Possibility of unit-testing(By the way, what can yo say about unit-testing frameworks?)

My OS is ubuntu 12.04, and I'm not sure node.js is worth installation(May be it should be used?). I have read about google's V8, but I'm not sure whether it is used in a such way.

P.S. I'm going to develop client-side sctipts with coffee and Spine. The server is Python(Django,WebPy) or PHP(Symfony2, Silex).

Great thanks in advance.

Alexey Sidash
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Install node.js, npm, and then coffee-script.

Now you can run coffeescript at the command line via the coffee executable. Run it with no commands to have an interactive prompt, or give it a filename to execute a .coffee file.

As for testing, any JS testing framework will work. There are a bunch. Mocha is one of my favorites.

Alex Wayne
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