Juno IDE for Jupiter Programming Language

A Smalltalk-like IDE for Jupiter

Features

• File explorer with Miller columns / cascading lists ( MacOS Finder style )
• Source code editor
• Documentation editor with Markdown format

Why Jupiter needs an especific IDE?

tl;dr It doesn't, you can use any editor, but it can provide a nicer development environment.

Long answer

Jupiter is a programming laguage based on Smalltalk/Self. One mayor difference with other Smalltalk dialects is the way the source code is stored: Jupiter uses plain text files, but instead of fitting all methods of several objects in one file, like most of other programming languages do, Jupiter only allow one method per file. Regular source code editors are optimized for large files containing a lot of code entities. Jupiter is different regarding this issue.

In a way, a directory with Jupier source code is like an 'old school' Smalltalk image that can be also inspected with any other unix tool.

There is a very direct equivalence between the file system and objects in Jupiter:

• A directory is always an Object ( Usually a prototype intended for clone/copy )
• A file with .st extension is a method in the object represented by the containing folder

Aditionaly can be files with Markdown format and yaml. Those files are ignored by the interpreter but the Juno IDE shows them as Docs and metadata asociated to the entity with the same name: For instance if we have a file named 'test.st' and a file named 'test.md', the source will appear in the first tab of the editor and the .md file will apper in the second tab.

To get started:

• Run npm install

Development

• Run npm run dev to start webpack-dev-server. Electron will launch automatically after compilation.

Production

You have two options, an automatic build or two manual steps

One Shot

• Run npm run package to have webpack compile your application into dist/bundle.js and dist/index.html, and then an electron-packager run will be triggered for the current platform/arch, outputting to builds/

Manual

Recommendation: Update the "postpackage" script call in package.json to specify parameters as you choose and use the npm run package command instead of running these steps manually

• Run npm run build to have webpack compile and output your bundle to dist/bundle.js
• Then you can call electron-packager directly with any commands you choose

License

This project is licensed under the MPL-2.0 License. See the LICENSE file for details