Some ideas in reply to Terry's recent question about whether node.js will be a dependency of the Leo Vue desktop app.
My initial reply was that it is way too early to say. Here are some further thoughts: 1. electron <https://electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/about>, the lib on which the atom <https://atom.io/>desktop editor is built, "[combines] Chromium <https://www.chromium.org/Home> and Node.js <https://nodejs.org> into a single runtime...Apps can be packaged for Mac, Windows, and Linux. Atom has a great look, but a much different look than Leo Vue. Alas, atom is a pure *javascript* app. 2. In this reply <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/leo-editor/50SZd4136iM/Rtos4hAtCwAJ>, in the Leo Vue thread <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/leo-editor/50SZd4136iM>, Joe Orr said: "About Electron, that is basically just node + browser in a package. I think should be doable to wrap Leo python code in node and have the browser interface, maybe using something like this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-python";. <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npmjs.com%2Fpackage%2Fnode-python&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNG1Qx5EsX92_rDKWn5aZwjqSr8cjg> The source for this project is here <https://github.com/JeanSebTr/node-python>. Hmm. node-python is dormant (4-years old) and marked as hyper-beta. Worse, the to-do list makes it appear as if there is language translation going on. I have a bad feeling about this... Anyway, node-python is a fork of another node-python <https://github.com/chrisdickinson/node-python>, which says it "actually embeds a python process inside of Node". The file binding.cc <https://github.com/chrisdickinson/node-python/blob/master/binding.cc> is C code which (if I am not mistaken) implements the Python API <https://docs.python.org/2/c-api/index.html> using the V8 interface <https://nodejs.org/api/v8.html#v8_v8> of node.js. *Summary* Implementing the Python API in V8 is *much* easier that trans-compiling Python into JavaScript. It might actually work ;-) Still, I am not convinced either node-binding project would form a solid basis for a major project. An alternative might be to use interprocess communication between python and electron. This might be a client server architecture, or something else. This is a completely open question, imo. Your comments please, Amigos. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
