On Sunday, January 18, 2015 at 5:47:51 AM UTC-5, Eric Forgy wrote: > > Hi Jeff, > > I really like this idea and look forward to giving node-julia (and Julia > for that matter) a spin. > > As I explain here > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/umHiBwVLQ4g>, I'm > building a web app with a Spring MVC backend and d3-based front end and > trying to figure out how to squeeze Julia in between the two somehow. > > I'm learning all this as I go and I just stumbled onto Nashorn > <https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/entry/nashorn_the_rhino_in_the>. > > The linked article talks about running Node applications on Nashorn through > Project > Avatar <https://avatar.java.net/>. If I understand, this combination > should allow me to run node-julia side-by-side with my Java code. Is that > correct? That would be awesome. Can you foresee any difficulties? >
Hi Eric, I like your d3 idea, my friends advise that projects that are based on d3 like bokeh <http://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/docs/gallery.html> go a long way and then get bogged down in details, so heads up, but it's too cool to not try. Unfortunately, incorporating Julia via node-julia will not work when using Nashorn and Avatar.js as they are projects to replace node and v8 not work with them. Nor will node-webkit or atom-shell if you are wanting to go browser-as-desktop-app route, but d3 in a browser still will of course.
