https://github.com/dorellang/hunter

Hunter: a JavaScript reengineering platform.
https://github.com/dorellang/hunter

ecmascript javascript pharo reverse-engineering smalltalk visualization

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Hunter: a JavaScript reengineering platform.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/dorellang/hunter
• Owner: dorellang
• License: mit
• Created: 2018-05-08T18:12:15.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-12-03T04:01:09.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-26T21:40:51.801Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: ecmascript, javascript, pharo, reverse-engineering, smalltalk, visualization
• Language: Smalltalk
• Homepage:
• Size: 1.61 MB
• Stars: 34
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 20
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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# Hunter

[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/dorellang/hunter.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/dorellang/hunter)

Hunter (standing for **H**unter **U**seful and **N**ice **T**ool for **E**CMAScript **R**eengineering) is a tool to help understanding JavaScript applications via interactive visualizations.

Hunter runs on top of [Pharo](http://pharo.org), a live programming environment.

![screenshot](screenshot.png)

## How to use

We do not provide a ready to use distribution of Hunter, but it is simple to build from sources.

Build: Clone or download this repository and execute `./build.sh` in a terminal (Powershell in Windows). Add `--32bits` argument if your system is 32-bits.

Start: Once the build finished, use `./start.sh` to open the application. You can open a JavaScript project in two ways: click on the open button and choose the directory, or drag and drop it.

### System requirements

Hunter runs under Linux, OS X, and Windows.

[NodeJS](https://nodejs.org/en/) (version >= 6) must be available in the PATH of your system.

## Development

There are two main alternatives to get a Pharo image with Hunter loaded on it:

* Execute `./build.sh --dev` in a terminal, then execute `./pharo-ui Pharo.image`.

* Download a Pharo 7 image by yourself, then load the `BaselineOfHunter`.

For the second alternative, you can evaluate the following inside Pharo:

```smalltalk

Metacello new

	baseline: 'Hunter';

	repository: 'github://dorellang/hunter:master/src';

	load.

```

## License

The code is licensed under [MIT](LICENSE).

## Academia

*Evaluating a Visual Approach for Understanding JavaScript Source Code*, by Martín Dias, Diego Orellana, Santiago Vidal, Leonel Merino, Alexandre Bergel. Published at [ICPC 2020 research](https://conf.researchr.org/details/icpc-2020/icpc-2020-research/29/Evaluating-a-Visual-Approach-for-Understanding-JavaScript-Source-Code). ([Prepint](http://bergel.eu/MyPapers/Dias20-Hunter.pdf))