CanadaHonk/shadow

Shadow is a new novel web engine made (almost) entirely in JS from scratch

JavaScript

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Shadow

Shadow is a new novel web engine made (almost) entirely in JS from scratch.

Try it in your browser!

(more info there)

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Contributing

To run the repo, just serve the root directory using a local HTTP server like sirv-cli:

npx sirv-cli .

# Now navigate to: http://localhost:8080/index.html

Significant stargazers

Nico Burns

445 followers · starred Oct 2023

Linus Groh

949 followers · starred Oct 2023

Jakub T. Jankiewicz

616 followers · starred Nov 2023

Andreas Røsdal

8 followers · starred Jun 2026

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