Editing SpiderMonkey (section)

==Use==
<!-- Is this still in use?  -->SpiderMonkey is intended to be embedded in other applications that provide host environments for JavaScript. An incomplete list follows:
* Mozilla [[Firefox]], [[Mozilla Thunderbird|Thunderbird]], [[SeaMonkey]], and other applications that use the [[Mozilla application framework]]
**[[Fork (software development)|Forks]] of Firefox including the [[Pale Moon (web browser)|Pale Moon]], [[Basilisk (web browser)|Basilisk]] and [[Waterfox]] web browsers.
*Data storage applications:
**[[MongoDB]] moved from [[V8 (JavaScript engine)|V8]] to SpiderMonkey in version 3.2<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/release-notes/3.2-javascript |title=JavaScript Changes in MongoDB 3.2 — MongoDB Manual 3.4 |access-date=23 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606170929/https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/release-notes/3.2-javascript/ |archive-date=6 June 2017 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
**[[Riak]] uses SpiderMonkey as the runtime for JavaScript MapReduce operations<ref>{{cite web|url=http://basho.com/blog/technical/2010/02/03/the-release-riak-0.8-and-javascript-mapreduce/|title=The Release Riak 0.8 and JavaScript Map/Reduce|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111103222007/http://basho.com/blog/technical/2010/02/03/the-release-riak-0.8-and-javascript-mapreduce/|archive-date=3 November 2011|url-status=live|access-date=24 April 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
**[[CouchDB]] database system (written in [[Erlang (programming language)|Erlang]]). JavaScript is used for defining maps, filters, reduce functions and viewing data, for example in HTML format.
*[[Adobe Acrobat]] and Adobe Reader, [[Adobe Flash Professional]], and [[Adobe Dreamweaver]]. Adobe Acrobat DC uses Spidermonkey 24.2 with ECMA-357 support forward ported.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://helpx.adobe.com/in/acrobat/using/whats-new-dc-2015.html|title=Acrobat DC SDK Documentation|website=helpx.adobe.com|access-date=5 November 2021}}</ref>
* [[GNOME]] desktop environment, version 3 and later
* [[Cinnamon (desktop environment)|Cinnamon]] desktop environment, version 1.0 and later
* [[Yahoo! Widgets]], formerly named Konfabulator
* [[FreeSWITCH]], open-source telephony engine, uses SpiderMonkey to allow users to write call management scripts in JavaScript
* [[PythonMonkey]] uses SpiderMonkey to allow users to write programs where JavaScript and Python functions, types, and events interoperate and (where possible) share memory storage. <ref>{{cite web | title=Distributive-Network/PythonMonkey: A Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine embedded into the Python VM, using the Python engine to provide the JS host environment. | website=GitHub | date=2023-07-07 | url=https://github.com/Distributive-Network/PythonMonkey | ref={{SfnRef | GitHub | 2023}} | access-date=2023-07-10}}</ref>
* The text-based web browser [[ELinks]] uses SpiderMonkey to support JavaScript<ref name="linuxjournal">{{cite web|last=Bolso|first=Erik Inge|title=2005 Text Mode Browser Roundup|url=http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8148?page=0,1|publisher=[[Linux Journal]]|access-date=5 August 2010|date=8 March 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100315132917/http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8148?page=0,1|archive-date=15 March 2010|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
* Parts of SpiderMonkey are used in the [[Wine (software)|Wine]] project's [[JScript]] (re-)implementation<ref>[http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-cvs/2008-September/047548.html wine-cvs mailing list] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207115516/http://winehq.org/pipermail/wine-cvs/2008-September/047548.html |date=7 February 2009 }}, 16 September 2008: "jscript: Added regular expression compiler based on Mozilla regexp implementation"</ref>
* [[Synchronet]], a BBS, e-mail, Web, and application server using the SpiderMonkey engine
* [[JavaScript OSA]], a SpiderMonkey [[inter-process communication]] language for the [[Mac (computer)|Mac]] computer
* ''[[0 A.D. (video game)|0 A.D.]]'', a real-time strategy game
* Wasmer has incorporated SpiderMonkey into their WinterJS open-source project; a JavaScript runtime environment.
* SpiderMonkey is also used in many other open-source projects; an external list is maintained at Mozilla's developer site.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/SpiderMonkey/FOSS|title=SpiderMonkey > FOSS|website=MDN Web Docs|language=en|access-date=2019-04-02}}</ref>

SpiderMonkey includes a JavaScript Shell for interactive JavaScript development and for command-line invocation of JavaScript program files.<ref>{{cite web
 |url          = https://developer.mozilla.org/En/SpiderMonkey/Introduction_to_the_JavaScript_shell
 |title        = Introduction to the JavaScript shell
 |date         = 29 September 2010
 |work         = MDN
 |publisher    = Mozilla Developer Network
 |access-date  = 14 December 2010
 |quote        = The JavaScript shell is a command-line program included in the SpiderMonkey source distribution. [...] You can use it as an interactive shell [...] You can also pass in, on the command line, a JavaScript program file to run [...]
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20110629134447/https://developer.mozilla.org/En/SpiderMonkey/Introduction_to_the_JavaScript_shell
 |archive-date = 29 June 2011
 |url-status   = dead
 |df           = dmy-all
}}</ref>