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SpiderMonkey. SpiderMonkey is the code name for the first-ever JavaScript engine, written by Brendan Eich at Netscape Communications, later released as open source and now maintained by the Mozilla Foundation.

SpiderMonkey

SpiderMonkey currently provides JavaScript support for Mozilla Firefox and various embeddings such as the GNOME 3 desktop. SpiderMonkey implements ECMA-262 edition 5 (ECMAScript) and several added features. ECMA-357 (ECMAScript for XML (E4X)) was dropped in early 2013 .[6] PhantomJS: Headless WebKit with JavaScript API. Ariya/phantomjs. Interface - phantomjs - API Reference - headless WebKit with JavaScript API. Issue 619 - phantomjs - Render not honoring viewport size - headless WebKit with JavaScript API.

V8 engine. Dominiek/ruby-v8. Rhino - JavaScript for Java.