I would like to present jspicl, a transpiler for building PICO-8 games in JavaScript!

Some of the benefits with using jspicl are that you'll be able to:

• write your code in a language you love
• get access to a wide range of tools and featuers in the JavaScript ecosystem (linting, es2015+, npm packages)
• use your editor of choice (with improved code completion, refactoring, navigation)

jspicl will transpile JavaScript down to the subset of LUA that PICO-8 uses. It will include polyfills automatically in the cases where certain language features are not available.

Github repo for jspicl

A simple mario game showcasing this can be found here and more are coming.

Please let me know what you think, I would love to receive some feedback.