coconutpalm / boot-code

CodeMirror for everyday coding!

Archived - Superceded by the FuseCode organization

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FusionText is the intersection of a number of good ideas I've encountered over the years that happens to implement an awesome programmer's editor and programming environment:

• Start with a small kernel that does nothing but bootstrap itself
• Modular, plugin-based design
• The program is written in (and using) itself
• Coding and program execution happen at the same time
• Use Lisp, because Lisp is the first and best language that can be evolved in itself
• Aggressively reuse existing best-of-breed components

TODO

• Tech debt immediate cleanup

  • Make the js loader use the job api DONE
  • Only load js that hasn't already been loaded (keep a set of already-loaded-things)
  • :dynamic maps need a :name to display in the job UI DONE

• Finish integrating replumb / implementing the main loader in repl.cljs

• Job API DONE

  • Job name
  • Step number / of? Or vector of step functions where each function accepts a continuation?
  • Root cells: Current step name/description; current step number; total steps in current job; jobs remaining
  • Run in the background (if possible?) as a progressive web app. Else trigger the next step in a timer event.

• Mechanism to push jobs from back-end to front-end (as noted under Refactoring below)

• Edit itself using CodeMirror

  • Select a file
  • auto-repl displays result in gray beside line; hover shows more; guard against infinite loops

• Edit Scala using CodeMirror

  • Integrate with Ensime / SBT?
  • Use ScalaFiddle back-end?
  • Will need plugins to be able to extend the back-end

• Edit YAML / OpenAPI using the OpenAPI editor

• GFMX code notebooks

• JS editing support (use built-in CodeMirror code assist)

• Terminal emulation support https://cdnjs.com/libraries/xterm (xtermjs)

• UI ideas

  • Splitters. Ctrl-1, Ctrl-2, Ctrl-3, Ctrl-0 to add and remove.
  • Quick sidebar for things like quick outline, open-file tree, git status, etc.
  • File tree - type to filter
  • Need a way to compress the number of tabs to make manageable?
  • Synchronized editors of same file. Across multiple tabs/connections. Displaying remote highlight.
  • Synchronize the UI too? (Open tabs / focused tab / more?)
    • UDP Multicast for windows / users finding each other?
    • https://github.com/ztellman/aleph
    • clj-commons/aleph#276
    • https://gist.github.com/gomes-work/e90b07192d9cfe6e9a31acd50b6d8b64
  • Libjitsi / audio & video?

• Refactoring

  • Move everything but bootstrap logic to separate repos as spiked in api.clj
  • Config.edn in each plugin repo's root naming the plugin, its activator, its dependencies
    • Dependencies allow us to compute load order
  • Link via the config mechanism
  • Write default config file if one doesn't already exist
  • Download webfusion-text via git during bootstrap
  • Get the UI up, then download and activate plugins in the background
    • Push activation jobs from the back-end to the UI via the refresh-state mechanism or similar DONE
    • git pull already-downloaded plugins before activating
    • Load everything we can, then display what we couldn't load (and dependencies) if needed
      • Just create an editor buffer in Markdown with the report?
    • Support Javascript-based plugins?

• Loader - See https://adzerk.com/blog/2017/02/faster-clojure-metadevelopment-with-boot/

  • Create standard ~/.fusion directory if needed and add standard config file
  • Allow to overload the standard ~/.fusion dirname on command line
  • Clone/pull bootstrap repo defined in config
  • (boot/load-file "${FUSION_DIR}/${BOOTSTRAP_PROJ}/build.boot")
  • (boot/boot web-dev)
  • Find a way to bridge this to SBT

Reference

Clojure

• EDN hack https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15234880/how-to-use-clojure-edn-read-to-get-a-sequence-of-objects-in-a-file
• Foundation https://github.com/coconutpalm/clj-foundation/blob/master/src/clj_foundation/patterns.clj
• Specs https://clojure.org/guides/spec
• Orchestra https://github.com/jeaye/orchestra
• clojure.test https://clojure.github.io/clojure/clojure.test-api.html

Clojurescript

• https://github.com/swannodette?page=3&tab=repositories
• https://github.com/arichiardi?tab=repositories

Codemirror, general js libraries

• Change fn to λ, etc. https://github.com/creationix/tedit/blob/master/src-minimal/ui/code-mirror-editor.js
• hterm, ssh in js https://chromium.googlesource.com/apps/libapps/

Git

Clojure

• https://github.com/clj-jgit/clj-jgit
• https://gist.github.com/arichiardi/370fda3d3f597e5379725a29a2ba8779

JS

• https://github.com/isomorphic-git/isomorphic-git
• https://isomorphic-git.org/docs/en/browser

Boot

• https://adzerk.com/blog/2017/02/faster-clojure-metadevelopment-with-boot/

License

Eclipse Public License, either version 1.0 or (at your option) any later version.

Copyright © 2017-2018 by David Orme