jscd

Reverse bytenode-compiled .jsc files back to JavaScript. Static parsing only: one pure-Rust binary — no patched V8, no Node runtime, no network.

Supports Node 8.0.0 → 26.12.1 (517 releases / 36 V8 minors) and Electron 19 → 45 (V8 10.2 – 15.6, pointer-compressed and sandboxed builds included; every major from 20 to 45 passes the same 9-fixture behavior check, 9/9 each); ≈ 25k .jsc files pass the tests with 0 failures (31 Node lines × 41 fixtures, compiled with bytenode 1.7.0's flags); two optimization layers (register folding → swc copy propagation) make the decompiled source readable.

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Contents: Highlights · Quick start · Install · Usage · CLI reference · Supported versions · How it works · Verification · Repository layout · Limitations · Contributing

Highlights

• Coverage — every Node release from 8.0.0 → 26.12.1 (517 releases / 36 V8 minors) is identified; a V8 outside the tables is a clear error, not a guess.
• Runnable output — --runtime adds the __runtime stubs so the result runs under node; --verify puts it through node --check.
• Readable output — two optimization layers fold bytecode register shuffling back into expressions (register folding → swc copy propagation); JSCD_NO_OPT=1 shows the raw form.
• Names recovered — scope slots are named, builtins resolved through a read-only-heap name table; never an identifier that throws ReferenceError.
• One dependency-free binary — pure Rust: no Node, no network, no patched V8; the Linux build is a 2.8 MB static binary (UPX).
• Reproducible verification — 31 Node lines × 41 fixtures compared case by case, plus corpus sweeps; every number rerunnable (see Verification).

Quick start

$ cat hello.js
function greet(name) {
  return "hello " + name;
}
console.log(greet("world"));

$ npm i -g bytenode && bytenode -c hello.js      # Node 20.20.2 in this transcript
$ xxd -l 48 hello.jsc
00000000: cc05 dec0 0bc2 e400 9200 0000 e521 2eaa  .............!..
00000010: f002 0000 0000 0000 011c 5401 2006 a860  ..........T. ..`
00000020: 0000 0000 0600 0000 010c 4c60 0000 0000  ..........L`....

$ jscd hello.jsc
console.log(greet("world"));
function greet(a0) {
    return "hello " + a0;
}

$ jscd hello.jsc --runtime > hello.out.js && node hello.out.js
hello world

jscd info hello.jsc decodes that header (sample in Usage); JSCD_NO_OPT=1 prints the raw, pre-optimization form instead.

Install

macOS / Linux — Homebrew

brew install ejfkdev/tap/jscd

Windows — Scoop

scoop bucket add ejfkdev https://github.com/ejfkdev/scoop-bucket
scoop install jscd

Straight from the manifest URL, without adding the bucket first:

scoop install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ejfkdev/scoop-bucket/main/bucket/jscd.json

Prebuilt binaries — Releases.

cargo (any platform with Rust 1.96+)

cargo install jscd        # build from crates.io
cargo binstall jscd       # or fetch the release binary instead of compiling (cargo-binstall)

From source

cargo install --git https://github.com/ejfkdev/jscd     # latest main
git clone https://github.com/ejfkdev/jscd && cd jscd
cargo build --release        # -> target/release/jscd
cargo install --path .       # ...or install that build into ~/.cargo/bin

Requires Rust 1.96+ (swc, the JS optimizer, needs a recent rustc). No system dependencies.

scripts/release.sh vX.Y.Z runs the release gates (cargo test --release, clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings, and the end-to-end smoke scripts/ci_smoke.sh — fixtures compiled to real .jsc, decompiled, syntax-gated and run-compared), then pushes an annotated tag whose message becomes the GitHub Release description. The tag triggers .github/workflows/release.yml, which rebuilds the six bare binaries listed above. Then cargo publish to crates.io (release.sh keeps the tag and the Cargo.toml version in sync), and python3 scripts/update_readme_help.py to refresh the CLI help below; the Homebrew tap and the Scoop bucket pick the new release up on their daily auto-update run.

Usage

jscd app.jsc                     # decompile one file to stdout
jscd app.jsc app.js              # ...to a file
jscd dist/                       # every .jsc under dist/ → dist-out/ (tree mirrored)
jscd dist/ out/                  # ...into out/ instead
jscd info app.jsc                # header fields, detected Node/V8 version
jscd disasm --filter main app.jsc
jscd ro-map probe.jsc > m.json   # build a read-only-heap name table
jscd --help                      # bilingual help (-h, `help`, `help <SUBCOMMAND>`)

• Input is one .jsc file, or a directory scanned recursively for *.jsc; output defaults to stdout for a file and to <INPUT>-out/ (tree mirrored) for a directory — -o / the OUTPUT argument writes elsewhere, - means stdout.
• A .jsc from an unsupported V8 is rejected with the detected version and the supported range in the message (jscd info prints supported: yes|no) — never a silent, runtime-only file.
• Read-only-heap names (Node 22+) resolve automatically where an embedded table applies (macOS, non-pointer-compressed builds); elsewhere build one with jscd ro-map and pass --ro-map (JSCD_NO_RO_MAP=1 disables the embedded table). Embedded tables are never applied to pointer-compressed caches (Electron/Chrome): they share the V8 version string with Node but lay the read-only heap out differently. The same table also pins string roots (roots): their indices shift between builds, so a table from your own build turns "0" back into "0" instead of whatever another build stored at that index. A mismatched table is ignored: you get <ro0_…> placeholders, never a wrong name.
• The interface language follows JSCD_LANG (then LC_ALL / LC_MESSAGES / LANGUAGE / LANG / LC_CTYPE): zh* is Chinese, anything else English; JSCD_LANG=zh|en forces one.

Flag	Applies to	Effect
-o, --output <PATH>	all forms	output file / directory / - (same as the OUTPUT argument)
--quiet	directory input	suppress per-file progress
--json	all subcommands	machine-readable output
--filter <SUBSTR>	disasm	only emit functions whose name contains SUBSTR
--ro-map <PATH>	decompile	read-only-heap name table produced by jscd ro-map
--verify	decompile	syntax gate: run the result through node --check (needs node on PATH)
--runtime	decompile	keep the runnable preamble (__runtime stubs, flattened context vars, name aliases). Off by default — add it when you want to run the product with node
-h, --help	all forms	print help (jscd help <SUBCOMMAND> for one command)
-v, -V, --version	all forms	print name, version and repository

CLI reference

Everything the CLI prints for --help and help <SUBCOMMAND>, verbatim (regenerate with python3 scripts/update_readme_help.py).

jscd --help

$ jscd --help
jscd 0.2.0 — V8 code cache → JavaScript
https://github.com/ejfkdev/jscd  (MIT license)

Reconstructs JavaScript from bytenode-compiled .jsc files (V8 code caches).
Static parsing — no patched V8, no Node runtime. Directories are scanned
recursively.

Usage: jscd [OPTIONS] <INPUT> [OUTPUT]     # decompile (default action)
       jscd <SUBCOMMAND> [ARGS...]         # stage-by-stage analysis
       jscd help [SUBCOMMAND] | version | -h | -v | -V

INPUT   a .jsc file, or a directory (scanned recursively for *.jsc).
OUTPUT  a file, a directory, or `-` for stdout:
          <file.js>   one input file
          <dir>       directory input, tree mirrored
          default: stdout for a file; <INPUT>-out/ next to it for a directory

Options:
  -o, --output <path>   output file / directory / - (same as OUTPUT)
      --ro-map <path>   read-only-heap name table (decompile)
      --verify          syntax-gate the result with `node --check` (decompile)
      --runtime         keep the runnable prelude (`__runtime` stubs) so the output
                        can be run with node; off by default — the output is
                        then just the reconstructed code
      --filter <substr> only functions whose name contains substr (disasm)
      --json            machine-readable output (info/strings/functions/disasm/ro-map)
      --quiet           suppress per-file progress (directory input)
  -h, --help            print this help
  -v, -V, --version     print name, version, repository
      JSCD_LANG=zh|en   force the help/error language (default: auto-detect)

Subcommands:
  decompile   reconstruct JavaScript (default action: `jscd <INPUT>`)
  info        header fields and the detected Node/V8 version
  strings     string and symbol constants from the constant pools
  functions   SharedFunctionInfo tree (names, params, bytecode sizes)
  disasm      bytecode disassembly (View8-compatible text)
  ro-map      build a read-only-heap name table from a probe cache
  help        print help (`jscd help <SUBCOMMAND>`)
  version     print name, version and repository

Examples:
  jscd app.jsc                        decompile to stdout
  jscd app.jsc app.js                 decompile to a file
  jscd dist/                          dist/**.jsc → dist-out/**.js
  jscd dist/ out/                     ... into out/ instead
  jscd decompile --ro-map m.json a.jsc   with a name table
  jscd info app.jsc                   header fields and V8 version
  jscd disasm --filter main app.jsc   one function's bytecode
  jscd help disasm                    per-subcommand help with examples
  jscd ro-map probe.jsc -o names.json
                                      build a name table (see `jscd help ro-map`)

jscd help decompile

$ jscd help decompile
jscd decompile — reconstruct JavaScript (default action: `jscd <INPUT>`)
https://github.com/ejfkdev/jscd  (MIT license)

Usage: jscd decompile [OPTIONS] <INPUT> [OUTPUT]
       jscd [OPTIONS] <INPUT> [OUTPUT]     # same thing

INPUT is a .jsc file, or a directory (scanned recursively for *.jsc).
OUTPUT is a file, a directory, or `-` for stdout. Default: stdout for a
file input; <INPUT>-out/ next to it for a directory.

Options:
  -o, --output <path>   output file / directory / - (default: stdout)
      --ro-map <path>   read-only-heap name table from `jscd ro-map`;
                        restores builtin names (`a.length`, `o.push`)
      --verify          syntax-gate the result with `node --check`
      --runtime         keep the runnable prelude (`__runtime` stubs) so the
                        output runs under node; off by default
      --quiet           suppress per-file progress (directory input)

Examples:
  jscd decompile app.jsc                 decompile to stdout
  jscd decompile app.jsc app.js          write to app.js
  jscd decompile dist/                   dist/**.jsc -> dist-out/**.js
  jscd --ro-map names.json a.jsc > a.js  with a read-only-heap name table
  jscd decompile --runtime --verify a.jsc -o a.run.js
                                         runnable, syntax-checked output

Global: --json works on every subcommand; `jscd --help` lists subcommands and options.

jscd help info

$ jscd help info
jscd info — header fields and the detected Node/V8 version
https://github.com/ejfkdev/jscd  (MIT license)

Usage: jscd info [OPTIONS] <FILE>

Prints the code-cache header: magic, version hash, V8/Node version, flags,
payload size, and whether this build supports that V8 version.

Options:
  -o, --output <path>   write to a file ('-' = stdout; default stdout)
      --json            one JSON object: file, size_raw, brotli,
                        version_hash, v8, node, supported, ...

Examples:
  jscd info app.jsc                      header fields and V8 version
  jscd info --json app.jsc | jq .supported   is this V8 version supported?

Global: --json works on every subcommand; `jscd --help` lists subcommands and options.

jscd help strings

$ jscd help strings
jscd strings — string and symbol constants from the constant pools
https://github.com/ejfkdev/jscd  (MIT license)

Usage: jscd strings [OPTIONS] <FILE>

Dumps the string/symbol constants this cache can reference, one per line.
The JSON `from_roots` list is the subset reachable from the root function.

Options:
  -o, --output <path>   write to a file ('-' = stdout; default stdout)
      --json            {"count":N,"strings":[...],"from_roots":[...]}

Examples:
  jscd strings app.jsc                   all constants, one per line
  jscd strings --json app.jsc | jq .count    how many constants

Global: --json works on every subcommand; `jscd --help` lists subcommands and options.

jscd help functions

$ jscd help functions
jscd functions — SharedFunctionInfo tree (names, params, bytecode sizes)
https://github.com/ejfkdev/jscd  (MIT license)

Usage: jscd functions [OPTIONS] <FILE>

Lists the SharedFunctionInfo tree: id, name, parameter count, bytecode
length, frame size, whether it was compiled, and nesting depth.

Options:
  -o, --output <path>   write to a file ('-' = stdout; default stdout)
      --json            {"count":N,"functions":[{"id","name","params",
                        "bytecode_length","frame_size","compiled","depth"}]}

Examples:
  jscd functions app.jsc                 the whole SFI tree
  jscd functions --json app.jsc | jq '.functions[].name'

Global: --json works on every subcommand; `jscd --help` lists subcommands and options.

jscd help disasm

$ jscd help disasm
jscd disasm — bytecode disassembly (View8-compatible text)
https://github.com/ejfkdev/jscd  (MIT license)

Usage: jscd disasm [OPTIONS] <FILE>

Prints View8-compatible bytecode disassembly for every function, or only
the ones whose name contains --filter.

Options:
      --filter <substr> only functions whose name contains substr
  -o, --output <path>   write to a file ('-' = stdout; default stdout)
      --json            {"disassembly":"<the whole listing>"}

Examples:
  jscd disasm app.jsc                    full bytecode listing
  jscd disasm --filter main app.jsc      only functions named *main*
  jscd disasm --json app.jsc > d.json    machine-readable listing

Global: --json works on every subcommand; `jscd --help` lists subcommands and options.

jscd help ro-map

$ jscd help ro-map
jscd ro-map — build a read-only-heap name table from a probe cache
https://github.com/ejfkdev/jscd  (MIT license)

Usage: jscd ro-map [OPTIONS] <PROBE.jsc>

Walks a probe cache's read-only heap and writes a name table, so decompiled
output says `a.length` instead of `<ro0_1120>` and `"0"` instead of the name
a different build gave that root. Two sections: `entries` (read-only-heap
offset -> name) and `roots` (root index -> name, for string constants whose
indices shift between builds). Build one table per build (see
docs/VERSIONS.md for the probe recipe).

Options:
  -o, --output <path>   write the table to a file (default: stdout)
      --json            {"schema","v8","tags","entries":{"0/1120":"length"},"roots":{"571":"0"}}

Examples:
  jscd ro-map probe.jsc -o names.json    build a name table
  jscd ro-map probe.jsc | head           peek at the table
  jscd ro-map --json probe.jsc | jq '.roots'   just the string-root overrides

Global: --json works on every subcommand; `jscd --help` lists subcommands and options.

jscd help help

$ jscd help help
jscd help — print help (`jscd help <SUBCOMMAND>`)
https://github.com/ejfkdev/jscd  (MIT license)

Usage: jscd help [SUBCOMMAND]

Prints the main help, or one subcommand's help (usage, options, examples).

Examples:
  jscd help                              main help
  jscd help disasm                       the disasm page with examples

Global: --json works on every subcommand; `jscd --help` lists subcommands and options.

jscd help version

$ jscd help version
jscd version — print name, version and repository
https://github.com/ejfkdev/jscd  (MIT license)

Usage: jscd version

Prints name, version, repository and license (`-v` / `-V` / `--version` too).

Examples:
  jscd version                           same as `jscd -v`

Global: --json works on every subcommand; `jscd --help` lists subcommands and options.

By default the output is just the reconstructed code — no runtime preamble and no comments (the AST layer strips even the structural markers; JSCD_NO_OPT=1 keeps them). --runtime prepends the __runtime proxy (minimal stubs for the V8 builtins the bytecode calls), the file-level declarations for flattened context variables, and the name-alias block, so the file runs as-is with node.

$ jscd info hello.jsc
file:          hello.jsc
size:          776 bytes (raw) / 776 bytes (decompressed)
brotli:        no
magic:         0xc0de05cc (external refs: 0x5cc)
version_hash:  0x00e4c20b
source_hash:   0x00000092 (source length: 146 bytes, module: no)
flag_hash:     0xaa2e21e5
ro_checksum:   (absent)
payload:       752 bytes at offset 24
checksum:      0x00000000
node:          v20.20.2
v8:            11.3.244.8 (exact)
supported:     yes

Two optimization layers

JSCD_NO_OPT=1 disables both, for diffing against the raw translation.

1. Text layer (src/opt.rs): folds bytecode register shuffling back into expressions — single-use values inlined into their use, stores overwritten before any read dropped, unused register declarations and pure bookkeeping (DeclareGlobals) removed, let r0; … r0 = E; lifted into a declarator, and receiver/argument loads rebuilt at the call site in JavaScript evaluation order (receiver → property → arguments), so nothing is reordered. It refuses to cross blocks, loop headers, braceless control bodies, or a value that is still used later (including the self-referencing write r2 = new r2(a0)).

2. AST layer (src/opt_js.rs): the text then goes through swc — terser's Rust port — for copy propagation, unused-variable elimination and constant folding:

   let r0, r1, r2, r3;        // as decompiled            // after both layers
   r0 = greet;                console.log(greet("world"));
   r2 = console;       →      function greet(a0) {
   r1 = r2.log;                 return "hello " + a0;
   r3 = r0("world");          }
   r2.log(r3);
   

   Pipeline: paren_remover → resolver → optimize → hygiene → fixer (skipping paren_remover miscompiles); the snippet is wrapped in a function first (swc only propagates copies inside a function scope — and the payload is a Module.wrap body at runtime) and the wrapper is stripped afterwards. No renaming, no statement merging, no arrow conversion; unparseable or suspicious output → the text-layer result is kept.

Supported versions

Version tables are generated from Node sources by scripts/codegen.py and embedded at build time. Selection is keyed on the V8 version hash; every Node release from 8.0.0 on is listed in tables/manifest.json (517 Node releases + 26 Electron builds), and one table covers each V8 minor — identical tables are stored once.

Electron is covered the same way: 19 → 45 (V8 10.2 – 15.6), with a dedicated table for every major 20–45 (22 shares Node's 10.8 table) and 9/9 fixtures per build verified against that build's own bytecode/root traces.

Every Node release from 8.0.0 through 26.12.1 is identified (517 releases, 90 V8 versions), and 29 of the 36 V8 minors pass the full behavior matrix — 31 Node lines, all green (1,108 pass / 0 fail / 8 skip / 0 known-fail). The remaining 7 minors (5.8, 6.0, 6.1, 6.6, 6.7, 7.0, 7.4) are identified by jscd info but their payload deserialization errors out loudly instead of emitting garbage.

V8 minors	Node lines	Result
6.2 → 14.6, 29 of 36	31 lines, 8.17 → 26.10	all green — 1,108 pass / 0 fail / 8 skip
5.8, 6.0, 6.1, 6.6, 6.7, 7.0, 7.4	8.0–8.9, 10.0–10.8, 11.x, 12.0 (partial releases)	identified; payload explicitly rejected

Node releases	V8 (newest)	table
8.0.0–8.2.1	5.8.283.41	tables/v5_8.json
8.3.0–8.6.0	6.0.287.53	tables/v6_0_8.6.0.json
8.7.0–8.9.4	6.1.534.50	tables/v6_1_8.9.4.json
8.10.0–9.11.2	6.2.414.46	tables/v6_2.json
10.0.0–10.3.0	6.6.346.32	tables/v6_6_10.3.0.json
10.4.0–10.8.0	6.7.288.49	tables/v6_7_10.8.0.json
10.9.0–10.24.1	6.8.275.32	tables/v6_8.json
11.0.0–11.15.0	7.0.276.38	tables/v7_0_11.15.0.json
12.0.0–12.4.0	7.4.288.27	tables/v7_4_12.4.0.json
12.5.0–12.8.1	7.5.288.22	tables/v7_5.json
12.9.0–12.10.0	7.6.303.29	tables/v7_6.json
12.11.0–12.15.0	7.7.299.13	tables/v7_7_12.15.0.json
12.16.0–13.1.0	7.8.279.17	tables/v7_8.json
13.2.0–13.14.0	7.9.317.25	tables/v7_9_13.14.0.json
14.0.0–14.4.0	8.1.307.31	tables/v8_1_14.4.0.json
14.5.0	8.3.110.9	tables/v8_3.json
14.6.0–14.21.3	8.4.371.23	tables/v8_4.json
15.0.0–15.14.0	8.6.395.17	tables/v8_6_15.14.0.json
16.0.0–16.3.0	9.0.257.25	tables/v9_0_16.3.0.json
16.4.0–16.5.0	9.1.269.38	tables/v9_1_16.5.0.json
16.6.0–16.8.0	9.2.230.21	tables/v9_2.json
16.9.0–16.10.0	9.3.345.19	tables/v9_3_16.10.0.json
16.11.0–16.20.2	9.4.146.26	tables/v9_4.json
17.0.0–17.1.0	9.5.172.25	tables/v9_5_17.1.0.json
17.2.0–17.9.1	9.6.180.15	tables/v9_6_17.9.1.json
18.0.0–18.2.0	10.1.124.8	tables/v10_1.json
18.3.0–18.20.8	10.2.154.26	tables/v10_2.json
19.0.0–19.1.0	10.7.193.20	tables/v10_7_19.1.0.json
19.2.0–19.9.0	10.8.168.25	tables/v10_8_19.9.0.json
20.0.0–20.20.2	11.3.244.8	tables/v11_3.json
21.0.0–21.7.3	11.8.172.17	tables/v11_8_21.7.3.json
22.0.0–22.23.3	12.4.254.21	tables/v12_4.json
23.0.0–23.11.1	12.9.202.28	tables/v12_9_23.11.1.json
24.0.0–24.21.0	13.6.233.17	tables/v13_6.json
25.0.0–25.9.0	14.1.146.11	tables/v14_1.json
26.0.0–26.12.1	14.6.202.34	tables/v14_6_26.10.0.json

8.17 10.24 12.5 12.9 12.15 12.22 13.14 14.0 14.4 14.5 14.6 14.21 15.14 16.3 16.5 16.8 16.9 16.20 17.1 17.9 18.2 18.20 19.1 19.9 20.20 21.7 22.12 23.11 24.12 25.9 26.10

Generation fetches only the ~30 V8 source files it needs per version, through a blob-filtered partial clone plus an on-disk file cache (workspace/node-src/); no full Node checkout is required:

python3 scripts/codegen.py --all-from 8.0.0 --donors tables/ --per-minor --keep-existing

Version-by-version engineering notes: docs/VERSIONS.md (Chinese) — including pointer-compressed builds (Electron / Chrome), whose cache layout differs from Node's.

How it works

What a .jsc holds

It contains no source text, and the header's source_hash field stores the source length, not a hash. Recoverable: header fields (version_hash, flag_hash, payload size, checksum, Brotli or raw), the SharedFunctionInfo tree with scope info (parameter / context / stack slots), constant pools, bytecode arrays, source-position and handler tables.

decompile prints names that exist only as scope slots as slot names (rN, __ctx.ctxN, _anon_N) — never as identifiers that would throw ReferenceError.

Pipeline

1. header — parse SerializedCodeData (24 bytes for V8 ≤ 11, 32 bytes for V8 ≥ 12), detect Brotli, locate the payload.
2. identify — map version_hash to a V8 version with the embedded index; fall back to recomputing the hash when the index misses.
3. deserialize — walk the V8 serialization stream (tags, backrefs, the hot-object ring, plus 6.x's kBackrefWithSkip and variable-length raw) into an object graph.
4. disassemble — decode bytecode against the per-version table; operand sizes, scaling and implicit-register tables come from bytecodes.h.
5. decompile — register IR → structured control flow (if, loops, switch, try) → AST → print; generator/async state machines, completion-code dispatch and class assembly are folded version by version.

Verification

Four gates, each reproducible on its own:

1. Behavior matrix (scripts/verify_behavior.sh) — every fixture is compiled to .jsc with that Node version → decompiled → syntax-gated → run, and the product and the original function are compared case by case on their return values. Two structural gates ride along: the default product may not lose top-level declarations (AST-layer DCE guard), and known-fails are counted separately so they cannot mask regressions.
2. Whole-script diffing (scripts/script_diff.js) — a complete script is run under node and stdout/exit code compared (covers top-level statements / const / class / async, which target-style fixtures cannot reach).
3. Corpus sweeps (scripts/verify_samples.py) — large sample sets × many versions: compile → decompile → node --check → load in a vm (a ReferenceError naming anything we generate — __*, _anon_*, ctx*, phi* — is a bug).
4. Unit tests and static checks — cargo test (65 tests) + cargo clippy --all-targets (0 warnings) + cargo build (0 warnings) + the dependency-free end-to-end smoke scripts/ci_smoke.sh.

cargo test                                              # 65 unit tests
bash scripts/verify_behavior.sh 8.17.0 10.24.1 12.22.12 14.21.3 16.20.2 18.20.8 20.20.2 22.12.0 24.12.0
python3 scripts/verify_samples.py 20.20.2 --limit 200    # corpus; also --offset, --samples

Fixtures are compiled the same way bytenode does it (same flags, createCachedData() — see scripts/mkcorpus.js); the transcript at the top uses real bytenode 1.7.0.

Numbers (all reproducible with the scripts above; the matrix rows are freshly measured):

Metric	Value
Supported Node releases	517 (v8.0.0 → v26.12.1), spanning 90 V8 versions (5.8.283.41 → 14.6.202.34)
Version tables / read-only-heap name maps	61 tables (36 Node + 25 Electron) + 29 ro-map tables, indexed per release in tables/manifest.json
Behavior fixtures	36 fixtures (121 assertion cases) + 5 whole-script fixtures — 41 files / 629 lines
One full matrix run	31 Node lines × 36 fixtures = 1,116 cells + 155 script cells ⇒ 3,751 case-by-case comparisons and 1,271 structural gates
Standard corpus sweep	408 real samples × 6 lines (8.17 / 12.22 / 16.20 / 20.20 / 24.12 / 26.10)
Full corpus sweep (cumulative)	2,446 samples × 10 lines ≈ 25,000 compile → decompile → syntax/load checks
Input JavaScript processed	2.40 MB / 76,246 lines / 2.4 M characters
Decompiled output produced	25,029 files / 301 MB / 6.27 M lines
Real-world files	Node's own duplexpair.js, event_target.js, test-abortcontroller.js × 9 lines
Result	1,108 pass / 0 fail / 8 skip / 0 known-fail + 155 script-pass / 0 fail

• skip (8 cells) marks fixtures whose source syntax needs a newer parser (?./?? on Node 8/10/12.15, BigInt literals on 8.17), declared as min_node in tests/fixtures/behav/cases.json and counted separately from failures.
• compile-fail cells in the corpus are sample sources the version's own parser rejects (modern syntax — 64 of them on 8.17); the 0 syntax / 0 decompile claim is about the products.
• No known-fail remains. iter_no_extra_close covers a case whose native semantics differ between V8 versions (for (const v of [1,1,2]) { if (v === 2) continue; } calls iterator.return() once on 6.2/6.8 and never on 7.8+): such fixtures are marked same_node_original in cases.json, so the original is run with the same Node version the artifact was compiled with — the product must reproduce its own version's behavior, which it does on all 31 lines.
• The IteratorClose epilogue that used to swallow loop-body exceptions, and both try/finally completion-code gaps, are fixed — iter_close and finally_return pass.

Behavior fixtures (each runs on all 31 lines): arith branch loop_for loop_while strings array_ops object_ops switch_case try_catch recursion closure class_basic destructure template spread_rest for_of_in arrow_opt generator operators string_regex yield_expr async_await async_try optional_chain twoclasses call_args3 call_once finally_return finally_solo delete_result num_literals try_catch_after iter_close param_defaults typeof_flags iter_no_extra_close

Whole-script fixtures (stdout + exit code compared): top_stmt top_const top_var top_class top_async

One corpus line in one run: ≈ 2,800 products / 33.5 MB / ≈ 700 k lines of decompiled code.

mise.toml pins the Node versions the harness uses by default (10.24.1 → 24.12.0); the matrix also uses older and newer lines — install the remaining 23 with:

mise install node@8.17.0 node@12.5.0 node@12.9.0 node@12.15.0 node@13.14.0 node@14.0.0 \
  node@14.4.0 node@14.5.0 node@14.6.0 node@15.14.0 node@16.3.0 node@16.5.0 node@16.8.0 \
  node@16.9.0 node@17.1.0 node@17.9.1 node@18.2.0 node@19.1.0 node@19.9.0 node@21.7.3 \
  node@23.11.1 node@25.9.0 node@26.12.1

Repository layout

src/              header, serializer, bytecode, disasm, decompile, CLI (`src/help.rs` holds the help text)
tables/           per-V8 tables: opcode operands, roots, scope-info layout, runtime names,
                  read-only-heap name maps (`ro_map_*.json`) + manifest.json
scripts/          table codegen, corpus builders, verification harnesses, release.sh, ci_smoke.sh
tests/            unit + integration tests, and fixtures (compiled to .jsc on the fly)
docs/             VERSIONS.md (per-version engineering notes), ARCHITECTURE.md, DECOMPILE.md,
                  stream-format.md
.github/          tag-triggered release workflow: 6 platforms, bare binaries, described releases
CONTRIBUTING.md   build, the gates a change must pass, how to add a fixture

Limitations

• No source text and no original identifiers; names are reconstructed.
• V8 builtins appear as __runtime.* / __intrinsic.* calls with minimal stubs.
• Scope slots that cannot be named print as __ctx.ctxN. Built-in names on Node 22+ need a read-only-heap name table: the embedded ones are macOS-only (see Usage), so on Linux/Windows build your own (jscd ro-map) or live with <ro…> placeholders.
• decompile targets readable, runnable output, not byte-identical round-tripping.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

Acknowledgements

bytenode for the packaging this tool targets; View8 for the disassembly format conventions; swc for the AST-level cleanup (a Rust port of terser's copy propagation).