@rbxts/jsnatives

rbxts-jsnatives

A collection of JavaScript-like APIs for Roblox TypeScript (roblox-ts).

Overview

This package provides implementations of common JavaScript/TypeScript built-in functions and utilities that are not natively available in Roblox Lua. It aims to make porting JavaScript/TypeScript code to Roblox easier and provide familiar APIs for TypeScript developers working in Roblox.

Modules

The package includes several modules:

• Array utilities - Extra utilities for arrays
• Console - Logging and debugging utilities
• Error - Error handling utilities
• JSON - JSON parsing and stringification
• Number - Number constants and methods
• Object - Object manipulation utilities
• Proxy - Lua-compatible implementation of JS Proxies
• Set utilities - Extra utilities for Set objects
• String - String manipulation methods
• Symbol - Symbol constants and methods
• Timers - setTimeout and setInterval implementations

Standalone Functions

The package also includes standalone utility functions:

• encodeUriComponent - Encodes URI components for safe use in URLs
• inspect - Inspects an object and returns a string representation

Usage

Import specific utilities from the library:

import { setTimeout, clearTimeout } from "@rbxts/jsnatives";

const timerId = setTimeout(() => {
  print("This runs after 1 second");
}, 1000);

// Cancel the timer if needed
clearTimeout(timerId);

Or import all utilities:

import * as JsNatives from "@rbxts/jsnatives";

JsNatives.console.log("Hello, %s!", "world");

Installation

npm install @rbxts/jsnatives

You also can install it directly from github (in case you want to use a unreleased version):

npm install @rbxts/jsnatives@github:RsMan-Dev/rbxts-jsnatives