JavaScript REPL installs statistics
By Achilleas Kiritsakas · VS Code Marketplace · Programming Languages
Interactive Javascript Playground
JavaScript REPL has 167,239 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace.
It ranks #1732 of 2,500 tracked VS Code Marketplace listings by installs.
It is rated 4.9 out of 5 from 21 ratings.
PluginStats has 3 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 18, 2026.
Rating: 4.86 / 5 from 21 ratings
About JavaScript REPL
JavaScript REPL
JavaScript REPL is a javascript playground for Visual Studio Code with live feedback(logs or errors) as you type, besides your code, in a log explorer, or in an output channel. It supports Javascript, TypeScript, CoffeeScript and it can be used for development in Node.js projects or with front-end frameworks like React, Vue, Angular, Svelte etc.
New Features
• Markdown support on code blocks. Learn more • Playground for MDN Web docs, TypeScript official documentation, CoffeeScript, Node.js, lodash, RxJS and Ramda library. Learn more • Performance measurement. Learn more
Features
By pressing cmd(or ctrl) + shift + l as shortcut or by using the command "JS Repl: Run" and by using console.log statement,you can display the result of whatever expression you want (Variable, Function, Object etc..). JS Repl can be activated on file types(.js, .ts, .coffee, .jsx, .tsx, .vue) or by launching "JS Repl: New ...". Users can check the available commands or the extension's configuration on the wiki pages.
• JavaScript, TypeScript and CoffeeScript support • Node.js support • React.js & Vue.js compatible • Logs through comments or by using console.log • Show or copy value of an expression, without add comments or console.logs • Explorer window with the log values and errors • Output window with the log values and errors • Live code coverage • Show log values on edit or or on save. • Imported files support • Easy install for missing modules • Multi-file support for logs or errors per project • Async results(logs, errors) rendering • ui customization in coverage & log colors
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Logging
Users can add logs in their code with the following ways:
Installation
Users can find the extension in marketplace at the following url:
🎉 https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=achil.vscode-javascript-repl
Javascript REPL requires node.js(>= 10.11.0) to be installed, and node executable to be available in PATH
Issues
Javascript REPL extension does not send any analytics data about the users or the kind of use that they are doing. So It will be very helpful, if you report an issue about a problem that you had during your repl sessions, and is really appreciated, if you provide any feedback about the extension user experience ♡. More information about issues or the part of the source code that have not been open-sourced yet users can find on wiki pages.
Credits
The icons that I used are not mine, so I would like to say thank you to the following sources or persons:
• Flaticon • Dave Gandy on flaticon • Vaaddin on flaticon • Font Awesome
The documentation resources in the playground markdown docs are served through the devdocs.io API.
This extension uses under the hood a modified version of Parcel bundler. So I would like to say a big thank you to the guys there. You can find the modified version at the following branch.
Inspiration
I'd like to give a shout out to Quokka.js, which is a significantly more comprehensive and covers a lot more editors, if this extension interests you - check out that too. Also, when I started to play around this, I started with the code of the following extension
Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.
- angular
- coffeescript
- expressjs
- interactive
- javascript
- keybindings
- node
- playground
- react
- repl
- svelte
- typescript
- vue
Where JavaScript REPL sits in the listing
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Charts
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Adoption over time
7/30/90-day growth
Ranking history
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Recent observations
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Data source
Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.
Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=achil.vscode-javascript-repl. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 18, 2026. See the methodology.