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Show HN: QuickBEAM – run JavaScript as supervised Erlang/OTP processes

https://github.com/elixir-volt/quickbeam
41•dannote•22h ago
QuickBEAM is a JavaScript runtime embedded inside the Erlang/OTP VM.

If you’re building a full-stack app, JavaScript tends to leak in anyway — frontend, SSR, or third-party code.

QuickBEAM runs that JavaScript inside OTP supervision trees.

Each runtime is a process with a `Beam` global that can: - call Elixir code - send/receive messages - spawn and monitor processes - inspect runtime/system state

It also provides browser-style APIs backed by OTP/native primitives (fetch, WebSocket, Worker, BroadcastChannel, localStorage, native DOM, etc.).

This makes it usable for: - SSR - sandboxed user code - per-connection state - backend JS with direct OTP interop

Notable bits:

- JS runtimes are supervised and restartable - sandboxing with memory/reduction limits and API control - native DOM that Erlang can read directly (no string rendering step) - no JSON boundary between JS and Erlang - built-in TypeScript, npm support, and native addons

QuickBEAM is part of Elixir Volt — a full-stack frontend toolchain built on Erlang/OTP with no Node.js.

Still early, feedback welcome.

Comments

theflyinghorse•2h ago
This is very interest to me because we have accumulated a few node packages containing logic that services simply import. So in theory I could now use those node packages in elixir?
jbpd924•1h ago
Interesting!! I've been playing around with QuickJS lately and uses Elixir at work.

I'm interested to hear about your sandboxing approach running untrusted JS code. So you are setting an memory/reduction limit to the process which 100% is a good idea. What other defense-in-depth strategies are you using? possible support for seccomp in the future?

waffleophagus•1h ago
Running JS on the Beam VM, all written in C. I don't know if this is just cursed, or absolutely brilliant, either way I love it and will be following closely. Will definitely have to play with it.
dnautics•35m ago
love this! a while back i noodled around with this idea, but didn't get that far:

https://github.com/ityonemo/yavascript

glad to see someone do a fuller implementation!

hosh•4m ago
1. Are each of the JS processes running in its own process and mailbox? (I assume from the description is that each runtime instance is its own process)

2. can the BEAM scheduler pre-empt the JS processes?

3. How is memory garbage collected? Do the JS processes garbage collect for each individual process?

4. Are values within JS immutable?

5. If they are not immutable, are there risk for memory errors? And if there is a memory error, would it crash the JS process without crashing the rest of the system?

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