Auto-generate JS class structures for Web IDL specifications

Is jsdom/webidl2js beginner-friendly?

The maintainers of jsdom/webidl2js usually reply to a pull request within 1 day. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

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Indexed issues
19
Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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Dominant language
JavaScript
License
MIT
Last GitHub push
Oct 29, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 20, 2026
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How to contribute to jsdom/webidl2js

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Your contributions will be published under the project's MIT license.
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  • Make generated JavaScript identifiers hygienic
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    jsdom/webidl2js#286 ·

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  • Add doc note about conversion of a value nested in a promise
    Open

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 35/100

    jsdom/webidl2js#257 · 6 comments ·

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  • Support adding dynamic IDL strings to Transformer
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    jsdom/webidl2js#188 · 4 comments ·

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  • Consider a better API for feeding in files
    Open

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

    jsdom/webidl2js#160 · 3 comments · 2 reactions ·

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  • Monkey patch partial interface definitions
    Open

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

    jsdom/webidl2js#84 · 4 comments ·

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  • Handling dependencies not specified in the IDL
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    jsdom/webidl2js#81 · 5 comments ·

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  • Factor out IDL-to-ECMAScript type conversion
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    jsdom/webidl2js#71 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • Separate out "public API" utils from private ones
    Open

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

    jsdom/webidl2js#52 ·

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  • Wrapper lazy instantiation
    Possibly taken @pmdartus claimed this 2485 days ago. Open

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

    jsdom/webidl2js#157 · 1 comment · 2 reactions ·

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  • Imported types
    Possibly taken @ExE-Boss claimed this 2309 days ago. Open

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

    jsdom/webidl2js#69 · 7 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Can implementation classes default-export implementation, instead of having a single export?
    Possibly taken @TimothyGu claimed this 3241 days ago. Open

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

    jsdom/webidl2js#59 · 4 comments · 1 reaction ·

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