A while back I did a post on running the LESS.js compiler on Windows using the venerable and ubiquitous Window Script Host (WSH: providing JavaScript console scripting since Windows 98… when John Resig was still in 8th grade). At the time I tried something similar to generate JavaScript from the wonderful CoffeeScript language, but I couldn’t get it working due to what I assumed were shortcomings in WSH’s JScript engine. There are plenty of other options out there for compiling CoffeeScript, but incur various third-party dependencies as detailed in this StackOverflow question.
But on a whim the other day I revisited it and thankfully now it does work on plain old WSH without any coaxing (not sure what changed, or what I was doing wrong last time). I took the full browser-based coffee-script.js and wrapped it with a simple *.wsf and batch file to handle command-line options.
Download
It’s on github, natch: https://github.com/duncansmart/coffeescript-windows
Usage
To use it, invoke coffee.cmd like so:
coffee input.coffee output.js
You can also pipe to and from it if you are so inclined via stdin/out. Errors are written to stderr.
In the test directory there’s a version of the standard CoffeeScript tests which can be kicked off using test.cmd. Note that the test just attempts to compile the standard set of *.coffee test files but doesn’t execute them.
Hope it helps; comments appreciated!
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Great Solution!…I had no idea that you could just run javascript programs in Windows like this. More people should use coffeescript because it’s awesome, and this sounds like a great way for Windows users to start programming in coffeescript. Thanks very much.
Looks neat but as newbie to nodejs/coffee, I’m not sure what to do with the files. For example, I have nodejs installed and working from a usb drive in a Win7 environment. I installed coffee-script via npm and there is an extensive install directory. Do I put _all_ your files in the node_modules directory or in a separate directory? TIA for any guidance.