I presented a project (idea, no code yet) that needs that feature, too.

Game server (as a service?) that accepts logic code from game tenants.
Another project needs something like this (it's like
https://github.com/ryanb/ruby-warrior/ )

So, thanks for the question, and for any answer!

Angel "Java" Lopez

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Kevin O <[email protected]> wrote:

> We are working on an app where we want to give users the ability to upload
> JS scripts to process their data in our app.
>
> Insane, right? :)  Well we are going to do it in a sane way or not do it
> at all. We understand the risks.
>
> I want to take raw JS input from the user, generate an AST,
> cleanse/evaluate/mangle it, then "re-compile" to minified JS *only* when
> we know is safe. If the script is doing unsafe things, we'll return
> compiler errors. Our compiler needs to be able to limit the JS globals to a
> short "whitelist". i.e. stuff like eval() is not available within the
> script.
>
> Scripts will be run in our node app using vm.runInNewContext(). We will
> pass in a context object with the data that the user will be processing
> with their script.
>
> Has anyone done something like this? I have a small bit of code started
> using uglify but am wondering if there are some other projects or design
> ideas I can pluck from before getting to deep into the weeds.
>
> Thanks
>
> Kevin
>
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