New-to-Necko Resources - An Aggregation

This doc serves as a hub for resources/technologies a new-to-necko developer should get familiar with.

Code Generation and IPC

• IPC (Inter-Process Communication) and IPDL (Inter-Thread and Inter-Process Message Passing)

• IDL (Interface Description Language)

  • Implementing an interface (C++/JS)

  • XPCONNECT (scriptable/builtin)

  • QueryInterface (QI) - do_QueryInterface/do_QueryObject

  • do_GetService, do_CreateInstance

• WebIDL

Necko interfaces

• nsISupports

• nsIRequest -> nsIChannel -> nsIHttpChannel

• nsIRequestObserver (onStart/onStopRequest)

• nsIStreamListener (onDataAvailable)

• nsIInputStream/ nsIOutputStream

Libraries

• NSPR

• NSS

• PSM

Preferences

• all.js

• firefox.js

• StaticPrefList.yaml

Debugging

• HTTP Logging

Testing

• xpcshell

• mochitest

• web-platform

• gtest

• marionette

See also

• E10S (Electrolysis) -> Split HttpChannel into: HttpChannelChild & HttpChannelParent

• Fission -> Site isolation