nginx/njs

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A subset of JavaScript language to use in nginx

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Forks: 239
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 36
Avg merge: 2d 9h
Merged PRs (30d): 10

Dominant language: C
License: BSD-2-Clause
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted

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36 open issues indexed

Modules: CR/LF in njs-produced nginx variables Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nginx/njs#1127 · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Potential memory leak in njs_fs_fd_read error paths Open

njs

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 67/100

nginx/njs#1099 · Opened Jul 14, 2026
Expose Nginx Cache Management API Open

feature njs

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

nginx/njs#1046 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 7, 2026
Add possibility to send early hints headers Open

feature njs

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nginx/njs#896 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 24, 2025
DNS module Open

feature njs

nginx/njs#853 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 11, 2025
Redis Client Open

njs question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nginx/njs#847 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 3, 2025
Session Events (start, close) Open

feature njs

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nginx/njs#842 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 22, 2025
Support ES Module: import fs from 'njs:fs'; Open

feature njs

nginx/njs#828 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 11, 2024
Add support for SSL certificate generation Open

feature njs

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nginx/njs#766 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 26, 2024
Synchronous version of `ngx.fetch` Open

feature njs

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nginx/njs#762 · 9 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 16, 2024
Add support for a fetch-like API for TCP (and UDP) sockets. Open

feature nginx-module njs

nginx/njs#708 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 25, 2024
Add Support for js_balancer like balancer_by_lua_block Open

feature njs

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nginx/njs#696 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 27, 2024
Shared library and installation Open

njs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nginx/njs#691 · 2 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Dec 20, 2023
add optional globals __dirname and __filename similar to node.js Open

njs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nginx/njs#672 · Opened Sep 20, 2023
use gRPC client like ngx.fetch without subrequest Open

njs

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

nginx/njs#671 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 15, 2023
JSDocs can't parse some njs-types Open

njs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

nginx/njs#664 · Opened Aug 18, 2023
Add support for Error.cause (ES2022) Open

feature njs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nginx/njs#653 · Opened Jun 15, 2023
Profile JS code Open

njs

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

nginx/njs#637 · 2 comments · Opened May 4, 2023
feature request: js_body_filter should have an option to operate on whole body Open

feature njs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nginx/njs#585 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 14, 2022
Syntax for Submitting Subrequests to FastCGI Open

answered njs question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

nginx/njs#476 · 9 comments · Opened Feb 20, 2022
Phase Declarative Syntax for js_set Open

answered discussion njs question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

nginx/njs#475 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 20, 2022
js_body_filter sends empty body response when buffering is on Open

bug nginx-http-module njs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

nginx/njs#411 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 4, 2021
Object.values() is not resolving getters Open

bug njs

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 40/100

nginx/njs#401 · Opened Jun 26, 2021
Support Web APIs. Open

discussion njs

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

nginx/njs#299 · 50 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 27, 2020
refactoring of the fs module. Open

fs help wanted njs refactoring WIP

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

nginx/njs#279 · 32 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 17, 2020
fix own property lookup for primitive values Open

bug njs test262

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nginx/njs#250 · Opened Nov 18, 2019
eval() support (strict only mode). Open

ES5.1 feature help wanted test262

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

nginx/njs#218 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 26, 2019
CLI written in pure JS. Open

CLI feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nginx/njs#216 · Opened Aug 23, 2019
implicit var declarations. Open

enhancement ES5.1 help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nginx/njs#212 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 22, 2019
Add support for global permanent variables Open

feature nginx-module

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nginx/njs#191 · 3 comments · 13 reactions · Opened Jul 8, 2019
NJS performance vs Chrome V8 & Firefox Open

performance

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

nginx/njs#185 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 23, 2019
URL native object. Open

feature help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

nginx/njs#143 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 25, 2019
interactive shell: return the value of the last expression evaluated. Open

CLI enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

nginx/njs#135 · Opened Apr 13, 2019
export default function name() {...} Open

enhancement ES6 help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nginx/njs#121 · 12 comments · Opened Mar 28, 2019
run main file as ES6 module Open

enhancement ES6

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nginx/njs#115 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 24, 2019
interactive shell: add an option to specify the maximum heap size Open

CLI feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

nginx/njs#67 · Opened Dec 4, 2018

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