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Interface between web servers and JavaScript-based web applications

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JSGI, or JavaScript Gateway Interface, is an interface between web servers and JavaScript-based web applications and frameworks. It was inspired by the Rack for Ruby and WSGI for Python and was one of the inspirations of PSGI for Perl.

Jack at the Wayback Machine (archived December 17, 2014) is a reference implementation of JSGI.

It has been included in and further developed by the CommonJS project.

JSGI packages

All these packages are for Node.JS.

These frameworks allow using promises with Q:

The names are inspired by Sinatra.

Server-side
Protocols	HTTP v2 v3 Encryption WebDAV CGI SCGI FCGI AJP WSRP WebSocket
Server APIs	C NSAPI C ASAPI C ISAPI COM ASP Jakarta Servlet container CLI OWIN ASP.NET Handler Python WSGI Python ASGI Ruby Rack JavaScript JSGI Perl PSGI Portlet container
Apache modules	mod_include mod_jk mod_lisp mod_mono mod_parrot mod_perl mod_php mod_proxy mod_python mod_wsgi mod_ruby Phusion Passenger
Topics	Web service vs. Web resource WOA vs. ROA Open API Webhook Application server comparison Scripting

WHATWG	Audio Canvas DOM SSE Video WebSockets Web messaging Web storage Web worker XMLHttpRequest
W3C	DOM events EME File Geolocation IndexedDB MSE SVG WebAssembly WebAuthn WebGPU WebRTC WebXR
Khronos	WebCL WebGL
Others	Gears Web SQL Database (formerly W3C) WebUSB

Topics

Related topics
Frontend and backend Microservices REST GraphQL Push technology Solution stack Web page Static Dynamic Web standards Web API security Web application Rich Single-page Progressive Web framework

Dialects

Engines
(comparison)

Client-side	Dojo Echo Ext JS Google Web Toolkit jQuery Lively Kernel midori MochiKit MooTools Prototype Pyjs qooxdoo SproutCore Spry Wakanda Framework
Server-side	Node.js Deno Bun Jaxer AppJet WakandaDB
Multiple	Cappuccino
Libraries	Backbone.js SWFObject Underscore.js

People

Other

v t e JavaScript
Code analysis	ESLint JSHint JSLint
Supersets	JS++ TypeScript ArkTS
Transpilers	AtScript Babel ClojureScript CoffeeScript Dart Elm Emscripten Google Closure Compiler Google Web Toolkit Haxe LiveScript Morfik Nim Opa PureScript Reason WebSharper
Concepts	JavaScript library JavaScript syntax
Debuggers	Chrome DevTools Firefox Inspector Komodo IDE Microsoft Edge DevTools Opera DevTools Safari Web Inspector
Doc generators	JSDoc
Editors (comparison)	Ace Cloud9 IDE Atom CodeMirror Brackets Light Table PhpStorm Orion Visual Studio Visual Studio Express Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Team Services Vim
Engines	List of ECMAScript engines
Frameworks	Comparison of JavaScript frameworks List of JavaScript libraries
Related technologies	Ajax AssemblyScript asm.js Cascading Style Sheets Document Object Model HTML HTML5 JSON WebAssembly WebAuthn
Package managers	npm pnpm yarn
Module bundlers	Webpack Vite esbuild
Server-side	Active Server Pages Bun CommonJS Deno JSGI Node.js
Unit testing frameworks (list)	Jasmine Mocha QUnit
People	Douglas Crockford Ryan Dahl Brendan Eich John Resig

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