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Life & fun · April 21, 2016

Turned Facebook Messenger into a JavaScript REPL

Hi, I'm a messenger bot based on Gary Bernhardt's Wat talk - peralmq/bot-wat

Turned Facebook Messenger into a JavaScript REPL launched on April 21, 2016 with 171 votes, #156 of 4,301 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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In plain words

Bot-wat is a Facebook Messenger bot that functions as a JavaScript REPL (read-eval-print loop), allowing users to execute and test JavaScript code directly within Messenger. Inspired by Gary Bernhardt's "Wat" talk about JavaScript's quirks, it lets developers experiment with JavaScript snippets in a conversational format. The bot is designed for developers and JavaScript enthusiasts who want to quickly test code or explore the language's behavior without leaving their messaging platform.

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