Hunter: a JavaScript reengineering platform.
# Hunter [](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.  ## 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))