A source code visualizing engine for Clojure.
Live at: http://lincoln-b.com/blocks.
This is a basic HTML/CSS engine for representing Clojure/ClojureScript semantic blocks as colored boxes.
These are my goals:
- The visual representation should be both more concise and more readable than the textual representation.
- Any interactive/hover functionality should treat both the mouse and the keyboard as first-class citizens.
If you have suggestions or ideas to contribute, please send me a pull request or leave a comment on the ClojureVerse thread.
I see this repository as a collection of ideas for a tool that will one day become a fully-fledged Clojure IDE. Visual blocks by themselves aren't as interesting as the potential for additional tools that enable software developers to see their programs in new, powerful ways.
For example, I can imagine a control flow diagram built into the editor, or a new way of organizing code that moves away from the linear file-based paradigm, or an easier and more powerful tool for refactoring code by dragging blocks across the screen.
To get an interactive development environment run:
lein figwheel
and open your browser at localhost:3449. This will auto compile and send all changes to the browser without the need to reload. After the compilation process is complete, you will get a Browser Connected REPL. An easy way to try it is:
(js/alert "Am I connected?")
and you should see an alert in the browser window.
To clean all compiled files:
lein clean
To create a production build run:
lein do clean, cljsbuild once min
And open your browser in resources/public/index.html. You will not
get live reloading, nor a REPL.
Copyright © 2014 FIXME
Distributed under the Eclipse Public License version 1.0.