Running Node.js applications on the JVM with Nashorn and Java 8 March 20, 2014 | 1 Minute Read This post was originally posted on my old blog. I am naively playing around with Nashorn. Nashorn is the new JavaScript Runtime that comes with Java 8 and runs on the JVM. In this post I show how to run simple Node.js applications with Nashorn on the JVM. Avatar.js is a project to bring the node programm