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Alternatively, you could use Rhino Shell (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Rhino_Shell) - it even supports tab completion!

At least Arch has `js`package which gives you js command to obtain JS shell; in fact it is just Mozilla's SpiderMonkey. Anyway, the best option for "standalone JS" is node, mainly because it has a sane way of importing code from other files.

My Chrome install on Windows has the same thing. I push ctrl+shift+c to load the developer tools, and click on console and it's a very similar tool to what he was using.