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Escher: An Elm-like web framework for Julia

60 points by tanlermin 10y ago

blueblob 10y ago
In my version of firefox it renders without the css centering, then centers, then makes my browser stop responding, then gives a blank page.
- giancarlostoro 10y ago
  I have the same issue. I'm on Ubuntu w/ Firefox installed.
- Bootvis 10y ago
  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.
- nprescott 10y ago
  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 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).
- Solarsail 10y ago
  Just replicated this bug in Firefox, IE and Edge. Can't find a way to debug the problem, tho.
- Fomite 10y ago
  Same problem in Safari on OS X.
- rotten 10y ago
  It looks fine to me in Vivaldi on Mac.
- jamesrom 10y ago
  Same problem on IE 10.
- notthemessiah 10y ago
  This is mostly because Escher relies heavily on Google Polymer Web Components on the front-end, which are natively supported by Blink, and supported on other browser-engines through polyfills which don't always work right.
justusw 10y ago
This could be useful for creating notebooks without using Jupyter. If it works, that is. I'm only seeing a blank page.
- delinka 10y ago
  I add the site to No-Script and I can see it in Chrome on OS X
- sndean 10y ago
  It works fine with Chrome. I opened it with Tor and briefly saw the page, then it went blank.
- elcritch 10y ago
  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).
taliesinb 10y ago
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/Dynamic.html http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Manipulate.html http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Manipulate.html

60 points by tanlermin 10y ago

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

giancarlostoro 10y ago
I have the same issue. I'm on Ubuntu w/ Firefox installed.
Bootvis 10y ago
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.
nprescott 10y ago
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 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).
Solarsail 10y ago
Just replicated this bug in Firefox, IE and Edge. Can't find a way to debug the problem, tho.
Fomite 10y ago
Same problem in Safari on OS X.
rotten 10y ago
It looks fine to me in Vivaldi on Mac.
jamesrom 10y ago
Same problem on IE 10.
notthemessiah 10y ago
This is mostly because Escher relies heavily on Google Polymer Web Components on the front-end, which are natively supported by Blink, and supported on other browser-engines through polyfills which don't always work right.

justusw 10y ago

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

delinka 10y ago
I add the site to No-Script and I can see it in Chrome on OS X
sndean 10y ago
It works fine with Chrome. I opened it with Tor and briefly saw the page, then it went blank.
elcritch 10y ago
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).

taliesinb 10y ago

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