Re: Getting started web developpement with GNU Guile (with guile fibers) and BiwaScheme

[Erik Edrosa]

WASM is still pretty far off to be a full replacement of what JavaScript
currently does in the browser. It would be interesting to have a scheme
web front-end for Artanis, it will be like using Clojure for the
back-end and ClojureScript for the front-end.

On 05/08/2017 10:55 AM, Nala Ginrut wrote:
> I'm planning to add Scheme web front-end stuff to let Artanis do every web
> thing in Scheme.
> Is it too extremist ?  : -P
> But nowadays we have WASM, JavaScript is not needed as the high level
> language anymore.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 2017年5月8日 20:53，"Amirouche" <address@hidden>写道：
> 
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>>
>> Le 06/05/2017 à 21:18, Nala Ginrut a écrit :
>>
>>> Oh I'd love to see someone write web front-end with Scheme. Good job !
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I will see what new artanis will be out :)
>>
>> Tx!
>>
>>
>>> 2017年5月7日 02:47，"Amirouche" <address@hidden <mailto:
>>> address@hidden>>写道：
>>>
>>>     I made a screencast explaining how I would start building a poll
>>>     application
>>>     using by favorite tools of the moment.
>>>
>>>     There GNU Guile in the backend using the new guile-fibers to run
>>>     the http server
>>>     workers.
>>>
>>>     In the frontend I use BiwaScheme with snabbdom library for
>>>     interacting with the
>>>     browser.
>>>
>>>     BiwaScheme is a Scheme interpreter written in JavaScript.
>>>
>>>     Snabbdom is library that implement a diff+patch algorithm which
>>>     allows to declare
>>>     how the page will look and it make it happen. It also handles
>>>     bindings events to
>>>     callbacks. The use of snabbdom is bound to scheme and its use is
>>>     transparent.
>>>
>>>     The first video, I try to explain what tools I will use and sort
>>>     of why. It's not
>>>     very interesting https://youtu.be/i47QgE0ihSw
>>>
>>>     The second video, I tackle an issue in forward.scm, basically I am
>>>     bug hunting in
>>>     the browser: https://youtu.be/to8vdri82_E
>>>
>>>     The last is the most interesing, it restart where I left it in the
>>>     previous video
>>>     with basically a minimal frontend (so you might want to look at
>>>     the 20 last minutes
>>>     of the second video). Anyway, then it goes on to allow the
>>>     frontend (client side)
>>>     to communicate with the backend (server side) using HTTP:
>>>     https://youtu.be/ePiHp1lgbas
>>>
>>>     The code can be found @ https://framagit.org/a-guile-mind/azul
>>>     <https://framagit.org/a-guile-mind/azul>
>>>
>>>     azul means "hello" in amazigh.
>>>
>>>     Happy hacking!
>>>
>>>     ~ amz3 ~ http://hyperdev.fr
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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