# doodlewind/jshistory-cn

🇨🇳 《JavaScript 二十年》中文版

Repository: https://github.com/doodlewind/jshistory-cn
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/jshistory-cn
Homepage: https://cn.history.js.org
Language: TypeScript
License Family: other
Topics: book, javascript, history, browser, translation, chinese, js, eich, mocha, jscript, actionscript, spidermonkey
Last push: 2022-08-24T14:44:33+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2333, "days_push": 1470, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4222, forks 298 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:39.312551+00:00)

## What it is
The Chinese translation of 'JavaScript: The First 20 Years', the book by Brendan Eich and Allen Wirfs-Brock chronicling JavaScript's evolution from 1995 to ES6. It is published as an open-source Markdown book with an online reading site and a print edition.

## Use cases
- read the history of JavaScript in Chinese
- learn how ECMAScript standards were created
- understand why ES4 failed and ES5/ES6 succeeded
- study the origins of Mocha, JScript, and SpiderMonkey
- find a free online book on JavaScript language evolution

## When to choose
- you want an authoritative, in-depth history of JavaScript's design and standardization
- you prefer reading in Chinese
- you need a free, openly licensed reference on ECMAScript history

## When to avoid
- you need a tutorial or reference for learning to program in JavaScript
- you need coverage after ES6/2015
- you require commercial-use rights (CC-BY-NC license)

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: stable
- function: documentation, markdown
- domain: programming-languages, tutorials, education, web-development
- platform: browser
- tags: book, translation, javascript-history, chinese, ecmascript, brendan-eich, web-server

## Member repositories
- doodlewind/jshistory-cn (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:39.312551+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:22:23.756799+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/doodlewind/jshistory-cn (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:39.312551+00:00, sha 5bd67bcb567c)
  - homepage: https://cn.history.js.org (fetched 2026-08-29T09:12:38.406272+00:00, sha 486990fca3fe)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.