[Haskell-cafe] Library maintainers: Include your library in CodeWorld web-based Haskell environment

[Chris Smith]

Hi Alberto,

The answer to your question has changed: yes, this now includes client-side
JavaScript frameworks.  You can now find the reflex-dom tutorial from
https://reflex-frp.org/tutorial running on CodeWorld at
https://code.world/haskell#PahNrX2gsrB7SlSnvKvtMaw.

Are there other client-side frameworks you're interested in?  The one
restriction that remains is that the app must start with a blank page and
build the UI dynamically.  The CodeWorld environment does not host assets
like stylesheets and images, so if they are used, they must be either
hosted elsewhere or delivered as a data-scheme URL.

Hope that helps,
Chris

On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 5:42 PM Chris Smith <cdsmith at gmail.com> wrote:

> (Sorry for the delay.  I overlooked this question.)
>
> > It is OK to include client-side Javascript frameworks?
>
> I was about to say no.  But now that you've got me thinking, perhaps I
> could change this.  I described by thinking at
> https://github.com/google/codeworld/issues/1362.  So my better answer is
> "not yet".
>
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 7:41 AM Alberto G. Corona <agocorona at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It is OK to include client-side Javascript frameworks?
>>
>> El mar., 2 jun. 2020 a las 1:09, Chris Smith (<cdsmith at gmail.com>)
>> escribió:
>>
>>> Thanks for the questions.
>>>
>>> 1. Yes, network I/O is excluded.  The only real exceptions here are
>>> stdin/err/out, and code that's specifically written to work in GHCJS, such
>>> as JavaScript.Web.XMLHttpRequest and JavaScript.Web.WebSocket modules in
>>> ghcjs-base.
>>>
>>> 2. Depending on bytestring is fine, because it has a shim that makes it
>>> work with GHCJS.  I believe
>>> https://github.com/ghcjs/ghcjs/tree/ghc-8.6/lib/boot/shims is a list of
>>> shimmed libraries that you don't need to worry about depending on.
>>>
>>> 3. Exporting inessential TH features is fine.  It's just that people
>>> attempting to use your library via CodeWorld won't be able to use
>>> them, since CodeWorld's web interface will refuse to build anything that
>>> enables Template Haskell.
>>>
>>> It looks like your project is completely excluded only because of the
>>> network I/O.  If the network I/O is not necessary and you could exclude the
>>> dependency using a combination of "#ifdef ghcjs_HOST_OS" in source and "if
>>> impl(ghcjs)" in the cabal file, then it could still work.  But, of course,
>>> of the network I/O is the whole point, then it's not going to work out.
>>> JavaScript
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 2:30 PM Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane at dukhovni.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 11:37:12AM -0400, Chris Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >
>>>> https://github.com/google/codeworld/blob/master/codeworld-available-pkgs/codeworld-available-pkgs.cabal
>>>> >
>>>> > Packages that fit here are:
>>>> >
>>>> > 1. No I/O, except for stdin/out/err.  Since CodeWorld runs code in a
>>>> web
>>>> > browser, there is no filesystem, for example.
>>>>
>>>> I assume this also precludes network I/O?
>>>>
>>>> > 2. Do not rely on native libraries, or have dependencies that do.
>>>> This all
>>>> > depends on the library building with GHCJS.
>>>>
>>>> I guess this also excludes `bytestring`, which uses memcpy(), memchr(),
>>>> and writes directly allocated memory?
>>>>
>>>>     -- | Wrapper of 'mallocForeignPtrBytes' with faster implementation
>>>> for GHC
>>>>     --
>>>>     mallocByteString :: Int -> IO (ForeignPtr a)
>>>>     mallocByteString = mallocPlainForeignPtrBytes
>>>>
>>>> and all of its dependencies?
>>>>
>>>> > 3. Do not require use of Template Haskell by clients.  It's okay if
>>>> your
>>>> > package needs template Haskell to build, but people using your
>>>> library via
>>>> > CodeWorld cannot yet use TH themselves.
>>>>
>>>> Is it that Template Haskell features in modules are not available to
>>>> users, or that modules that export even "inessential" TH features are
>>>> precluded.
>>>>
>>>> For example, can the platform support a module that exports a
>>>> convenience TH "splice", if the same can be done slightly less
>>>> conveniently (e.g. run-time, rather than compile-time error checks) at
>>>> runtime via alternative functions?
>>>>
>>>> [ My current project does network I/O, uses `bytestring`, and provides
>>>>   TH-splices for two types of compile-time validated literals, so I
>>>>   would assume is a non-starter on all three counts. ]
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>     Viktor.
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Alberto.
>>
>
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