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autogen.sh does not use bash-specific features, so we can change it to #!/bin/sh. #!/bin/bash causes error on systems which do not have bash installed in /bin.

you should be able to run './src/my-js-app' and stuff should just work
-- https://github.com/gcampax/gtk-js-app/blob/master/README

% ./src/my-js-app                                                                                                                                                                 
no such file or directory: ./src/my-js-app

Ok let's try gjs.

 % gjs ./src/main.js                                                                                                                                                               
(gjs:1281): Gjs-WARNING **: 15:27:19.845: JS ERROR: ReferenceError: pkg is not defined
@./src/main.js:27:1
Script ./src/main.js threw an exception

Ok let's build this

% meson build
[....]

% ./build/src/com.example.Gtk.JSApplication 
permission denied: ./build/src/com.example.Gtk.JSApplication

% chmod +x ./build/src/com.example.Gtk.JSApplication
                                                                                                                        
% ./build/src/com.example.Gtk.JSApplication
(com.example.Gtk.JSApplication:1424): Gjs-WARNING **: 15:28:32.957: JS ERROR: ImportError: No JS module 'main' found in search path
@./build/src/com.example.Gtk.JSApplication:6:1
Script ./build/src/com.example.Gtk.JSApplication threw an exception

Ok let's install this

% cd build
% DESTDIR=./install ninja install
% ./install/usr/local/bin/com.example.Gtk.JSApplication
(com.example.Gtk.JSApplication:2282): Gjs-WARNING **: 15:35:38.003: JS ERROR: ImportError: No JS module 'main' found in search path
@./install/usr/local/bin/com.example.Gtk.JSApplication:6:1

Script ./install/usr/local/bin/com.example.Gtk.JSApplication threw an exception

I'm on Linux Mint:
$ make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory /home/bruce/gjs/gtk-js-app' Making all in po make[2]: Entering directory/home/bruce/gjs/gtk-js-app/po'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for all'. make[2]: Leaving directory/home/bruce/gjs/gtk-js-app/po'
Making all in data
make[2]: Entering directory /home/bruce/gjs/gtk-js-app/data' Makefile:822: *** missing separator. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory/home/bruce/gjs/gtk-js-app/data'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bruce/gjs/gtk-js-app'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I am a complete newcomer to GTK & GJS development. I write TypeScript professionally and I prefer using TypeScript using plain JavaScript. I see that multiple GTK apps are written in TypeScript now.

One popular example is pop-os/shell, however that project does not use type definitions for GJS itself. It also uses quite a weird build setup with sed scripts.

Then I found ts-for-gir which seems to be the most mature library that provides types for GJS. They also have a lot of example projects. Meson is not used as a build tool for these example projects (esbuild is used instead for most).

It would be great to have a standard template for starting out GJS development that includes TypeScript.

After running the ./autogen.sh, in the configure step throws this error:

checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
./configure: line 12460: syntax error near unexpected token 0.9.6' ./configure: line 12460: GOBJECT_INTROSPECTION_REQUIRE(0.9.6)'

I can build the code correctly and execute the program with "com.example.Gtk.JSApplication" , but when I launch it from the desktop environments (Gnome) it doesn't start. Looking at .application file, it try to execute
gapplication launch com.example.Gtk.JSApplication
and if I do this command I get this error:
error sending Activate message to application: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not activate remote peer.

No idea how I can try to fix this

Hi!

When I execute the application in a Fedora Rawhide with GNOME 3.8 the following error shown: "Error: No JS module 'package' found in search path."

Thanks.

Hi!

Is there any possibility to support this app in debian testing aka wheeze? When running ./autogen.sh I've got:

Requested 'gtk+-3.0 >= 3.7.10' but version of GTK+ is 3.4.2

I don't want to use debian experimental ...yet! Thanks for your work :)

Hi
I am trying build a test app just to get to know better GJS and found this repo in Gnome Documentation about GJS.
I was learning how meson and ninja works but I can't figure it out how to run the app inside the project folder without making a ninja install.

If I try to do gjs src/main.js it complains about pkg not being defined, and if I do ninja inside de build directory and run gjs _build/src/com.example.Gtk.JSApplication without making ninja install, it complains about not finding main in the search path.

The only thing I could do is after running sudo ninja install, and then gjs _build/src/com.example.Gtk.JSApplication that's when the app launches, but every time I make a change I would have to start over and make an install.

What am I missing? I see here https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Gjs/Package that pkg is available at runtime through the package.js, but I can't understand how to run from src without installing.

Thanks