Goshen

An IDE for authoring interactive fiction targeting Inform 7 and the Glulx virtual machine. Provides visual tools (node graphs, tables) that compile one-way into Inform 7 source text.

Tech Stack

• App Shell: Tauri v2 (Rust backend)
• Frontend: React 19 + TypeScript
• State: Zustand with undo/redo (zundo)
• Validation: Zod schemas
• Build: Vite
• Tests: Vitest

Development

npm install
npm run dev          # Start Vite dev server
npm run test         # Run tests
npm run build        # Build frontend

Architecture

• src/domain/ — Core domain model (Room, Thing, Connection, Scene, ActionRule, etc.)
• src/compiler/ — One-way compilation engine: domain model → Inform 7 source
• src/plugins/ — Plugin system for Inform 7 community extensions
• src/store/ — Zustand state management with undo/redo
• src/persistence/ — JSON project file save/load with migration
• src/components/ — React UI shell (resizable panels)
• src-tauri/ — Tauri backend (file I/O, compiler invocation)

Project Files

Projects are saved as .goshen files (JSON format, human-readable, version-controlled).