Welcome!

SpiderMonkey is Mozilla’s JavaScript and WebAssembly Engine, used in Firefox, Servo and various other projects. It is written in C++, Rust and JavaScript. You can embed it into C++ and Rust projects, and it can be run as a stand-alone shell. It can also be compiled to WASI; see our online demo.

What's New


Read more in the SpiderMonkey Blog

SpiderMonkey Internals


Understanding the engine

In-depth Articles:

Building and Contributing


Embedding SpiderMonkey


Where to find us


While we strongly recommend using Matrix chat if you have questions, we also maintain a non-exhaustive list of people who have volunteered their expertise on specific components of SpiderMonkey. For example, you might need to know who to needinfo about IonMonkey in Bugzilla…