Imba

if ruby and react had an indentation-based child, what would it look like? Imba is a new programming language for the web that compiles to performant and readable JavaScript. It has language level support for defining, extending, subclassing, instantiating and rendering dom nodes.

Documentation

To get started with Imba, we recommend reading through the official guide. If you just want to get going, clone hello-world-imba and follow the readme.

Questions

For questions and support please use our community chat.

Plugins

Atom: language-imba can be installed through Atom Package Manager. File icon support is available via the File Icons package and the code pending in this issue until integrated with the base package.
Sublime Text: sublime-imba can be installed through Sublime Package Manager.
VSCode: vscode-imba can be installed through VSCode / Marketplace.

Installation

Get Node.js and npm, or Yarn, then:

npm install -g imba
yarn add --global imba

Usage

imba

Imba ships with a basic node wrapper for running imba-scripts. Use imba the same way you would use node. Call imba without arguments to see available options.

imba app.imba will compile and execute app.imba

imbapack

The imbapack utility is a convenient wrapper around webpack, which preprocesses your config to include the necessary configurations for loading .imba files. It supports all the same options as webpack and will work with webpack.config.js files directly. When you use imbapack you do not need to declare an imba-loader and resolveExtensions in your configs.

imbapack app.imba bundle.js compiles the file app.imba, and all required files into a webpack bundle named bundle.js. This file can be included in a html page like any other js-file. See webpack for more details.

imbapack --watch app.imba bundle.js same as above, but recompiles whenever app.imba or any related files change.

Webpack Config

The following should be sufficient in most cases:

{
  test: /\.imba$/,
  loader: 'imba/loader'
}

imbac

The imbac utility is for compiling your scripts to js. When working on client-side projects you should rather use imbapack (see above). Call imbac without arguments to see available options. If you are not able to use imba to run your project, or you really need to precompile the code (for running on node), you can use imbac.

License

MIT

karuppasamy / imba