Escher: An Elm-like web framework for Julia

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Post by tanlermin » Wed, Jul 06, 2016, 5:08 PM UTC

Escher: An Elm-like web framework for Julia
escher-jl.org

Re: Escher: An Elm-like web framework for Julia

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Post by blueblob » Wed, Jul 06, 2016, 6:27 PM UTC

In my version of firefox it renders without the css centering, then centers, then makes my browser stop responding, then gives a blank page.

Re: Escher: An Elm-like web framework for Julia

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Post by giancarlostoro » Wed, Jul 06, 2016, 6:38 PM UTC

blueblob wrote: post #2

In my version of firefox it renders without the css centering, then centers, then makes my browser stop responding, then gives a blank page.

I have the same issue. I'm on Ubuntu w/ Firefox installed.

Re: Escher: An Elm-like web framework for Julia

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Post by Bootvis » Wed, Jul 06, 2016, 6:42 PM UTC

blueblob wrote: post #2

In my version of firefox it renders without the css centering, then centers, then makes my browser stop responding, then gives a blank page.

Safari on iPad als has weird issues, first text is shown unstyled, then a flash, then styled text is shown. However, on scroll a blank page is presented.

Re: Escher: An Elm-like web framework for Julia

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Post by justusw » Wed, Jul 06, 2016, 7:06 PM UTC

This could be useful for creating notebooks without using Jupyter. If it works, that is. I'm only seeing a blank page.

Re: Escher: An Elm-like web framework for Julia

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Post by delinka » Wed, Jul 06, 2016, 7:38 PM UTC

justusw wrote: post #5

This could be useful for creating notebooks without using Jupyter. If it works, that is. I'm only seeing a blank page.

I add the site to No-Script and I can see it in Chrome on OS X

Re: Escher: An Elm-like web framework for Julia

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Post by sndean » Wed, Jul 06, 2016, 7:40 PM UTC

justusw wrote: post #5

This could be useful for creating notebooks without using Jupyter. If it works, that is. I'm only seeing a blank page.

It works fine with Chrome. I opened it with Tor and briefly saw the page, then it went blank.

Re: Escher: An Elm-like web framework for Julia

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Post by elcritch » Wed, Jul 06, 2016, 7:42 PM UTC

justusw wrote: post #5

This could be useful for creating notebooks without using Jupyter. If it works, that is. I'm only seeing a blank page.

That's been my thoughts. Jupyter is ok but the interface really has stagnated, which is peculiar because it's not that complex of a front end. Though Escher is promising it's not production ready/quality for my tastes (which is getting better in the Julia world but definitely still an ongoing need to address).

Re: Escher: An Elm-like web framework for Julia

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Post by taliesinb » Wed, Jul 06, 2016, 8:19 PM UTC

Nice. This is pretty similar to Mathematica's user interface functionality and Dynamic mechanism:

http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Dynamic.html

http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Manipulate.html

Re: Escher: An Elm-like web framework for Julia

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Post by nprescott » Wed, Jul 06, 2016, 8:52 PM UTC

blueblob wrote: post #2

In my version of firefox it renders without the css centering, then centers, then makes my browser stop responding, then gives a blank page.

At the risk of too much me-too-ism, this is almost impressively bad as a showcase of a framework. I don't have much interest in debugging this, but disabling the 92 XHR invocations prevents this for me.

For anyone not seeing the issue: https://i.imgur.com/nT1YoBp.gif

The hot-loading of code is a very nice feature to develop with, but I'm curious to see it in action. Sometimes it feels like Clojurescript's Figwheel won't be topped in this regard (certainly the case with some of the React/webpack tooling).

Nice to see some advancement in Julia, oftentimes I don't hear anything being made with the language and only hear of development in the language itself. I don't see any compelling reason to switch yet but perhaps this will drive cross-pollination in other, similar projects (Jupyter for instance).