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Escher – Build beautiful interactive Web UIs in Julia

128 points by Lofkin 11y ago

benhamner 11y ago
Beautiful! Appears inspired by RStudio's Shiny http://shiny.rstudio.com/ http://shiny.rstudio.com/
- FractalNerve 11y ago
  I'm currently working a lot with Matlab and seeing a beauty like Escher for Julia is all I could wish for. Great work!! It reminds me a little about Elm, I'm not sure what's missing in Escher over Elm's features, but that's another story.
  - g0wda 11y ago
    Hello! I wrote Escher. Thanks! Reactive.jl which Escher depends on for interaction was entirely inspired by Elm! I think the main difference between Elm is that Elm is currently a client-only compile-to-JS language. Escher, otoh runs on the server and compiles to Virtual DOM instead of JS. The Virtual DOM can include custom HTML elements, I use Polymer extensively, and have a few elements of my own for doing things like event capture, websocket communication, sampling events etc. see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/UEaYPlBuIkc https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/UEaYPlBu... for a brief description of how it works.
dang 11y ago
Although https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9650438 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9650438 had significant attention recently, this post seems different enough that I think we can not count it as a dupe.
- ibdknox 11y ago
  They don't appear to be related. The previous discussion was about replicating an Escher style drawing in Julia. This is about a web framework for Julia that just happens to be named Escher :)
  - dang 11y ago
    The username in the url is the same, so presumably they're by the same person?
    - g0wda 11y ago
      Yup. :)
spacko 11y ago
Escher? Why not Gödel ... or Wittgenstein ... or Kant? Then again Bauer, Müller or Becker would be just as appropriate, wouldn't it?
- deleted 11y ago
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- mkempe 11y ago
  Indeed, a note explaining why it's named Escher would be appropriate.
  - spacko 11y ago
    Well, Escher's pictures are sophisticated and "beautiful" - I guess that's why
gjm11 11y ago
The plotting examples on that page work for me in Chrome but not in Firefox (version 38.0.5 on Windows 8.1, if it matters).
jtth 11y ago
Huh. I actually saw the stylesheet load over the page layout.
curiouslearn 11y ago
This looks really amazing. Thank you Shashi. Does this need Julia 0.4? A very minor comment - In the markdown example, you need to add "Interpolate \KaTeX" in the input (it is there in the output but not in the input).
tempodox 11y ago
Almost makes me drool. If only Julia could produce stand-alone executables!
- tadlan 11y ago
  That is on the roadmap
  - tempodox 11y ago
    So it was said a year ago.
    - Lofkin 11y ago
      It is already possible to some degree: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/9973 https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/9973 More robust support starts with package precompilation which is slated to go into 0.4 https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/11426 https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/11426

128 points by Lofkin 11y ago

benhamner 11y ago

Beautiful! Appears inspired by RStudio's Shiny http://shiny.rstudio.com/ http://shiny.rstudio.com/

FractalNerve 11y ago
I'm currently working a lot with Matlab and seeing a beauty like Escher for Julia is all I could wish for. Great work!! It reminds me a little about Elm, I'm not sure what's missing in Escher over Elm's features, but that's another story.
- g0wda 11y ago
  Hello! I wrote Escher. Thanks! Reactive.jl which Escher depends on for interaction was entirely inspired by Elm! I think the main difference between Elm is that Elm is currently a client-only compile-to-JS language. Escher, otoh runs on the server and compiles to Virtual DOM instead of JS. The Virtual DOM can include custom HTML elements, I use Polymer extensively, and have a few elements of my own for doing things like event capture, websocket communication, sampling events etc. see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/UEaYPlBuIkc https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/UEaYPlBu... for a brief description of how it works.

dang 11y ago

Although https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9650438 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9650438 had significant attention recently, this post seems different enough that I think we can not count it as a dupe.

ibdknox 11y ago
They don't appear to be related. The previous discussion was about replicating an Escher style drawing in Julia. This is about a web framework for Julia that just happens to be named Escher :)
- dang 11y ago
  The username in the url is the same, so presumably they're by the same person?
  - g0wda 11y ago
    Yup. :)

spacko 11y ago

Escher? Why not Gödel ... or Wittgenstein ... or Kant? Then again Bauer, Müller or Becker would be just as appropriate, wouldn't it?

deleted 11y ago
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mkempe 11y ago
Indeed, a note explaining why it's named Escher would be appropriate.
- spacko 11y ago
  Well, Escher's pictures are sophisticated and "beautiful" - I guess that's why

gjm11 11y ago

The plotting examples on that page work for me in Chrome but not in Firefox (version 38.0.5 on Windows 8.1, if it matters).

jtth 11y ago

Huh. I actually saw the stylesheet load over the page layout.

curiouslearn 11y ago

This looks really amazing. Thank you Shashi. Does this need Julia 0.4? A very minor comment - In the markdown example, you need to add "Interpolate \KaTeX" in the input (it is there in the output but not in the input).

tempodox 11y ago

Almost makes me drool. If only Julia could produce stand-alone executables!

tadlan 11y ago
That is on the roadmap
- tempodox 11y ago
  So it was said a year ago.
  - Lofkin 11y ago
    It is already possible to some degree: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/9973 https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/9973 More robust support starts with package precompilation which is slated to go into 0.4 https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/11426 https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/11426