Hi Stephen,
- is there a JavaScript MVC framework that is suitable to use with racketscript? (should I be using react or angular ?)
I can not speak for Angular, but I think React should be suitable. You'll have to use ES5 API instead of classes and JSX, and therefore may want to build a small layer in between for things to look nicer.
- can I use Racketscrips with racket web applications stuff for the backend or am I compiling racketscript to nodejs to run on the server?
RacketScript provides a small FFI to interact with JS stuff. You can use some NodeJS library, to write server-side code. Our Playground[1] client and server is built entirely using RacketScript.
I would also like to add that RacketScript is not entirely Racket. Our aim is to preserve Racket semantics as much as possible, but drop expensive features. Specifically, RacketScript does not implement proper tail calls (we try to convert self-tail calls to loops) and continuations. Among other things, we use JS numbers, do not support submodules and make fewer runtime checks.
Note that RacketScript is not ready for production use, and is constantly changing. Therefore, we do not recommend it for anything big and serious at the moment. Despite that, we encourage developers to try RacketScript and share their experiences with us.
--Vishesh [1] https://github.com/vishesh/racketscript-playground
Thanks again On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 at 14:11, Jens Axel Søgaard <jensa...@soegaard.net <mailto:jensa...@soegaard.net>> wrote: Hi Stephen, If you want to write real Racket on the client side, your best bet is to use racketscript. https://github.com/vishesh/racketscript Try it out here: http://rapture.twistedplane.com:8080/ Note that tail recursion is not supported. Urlang as-is will allow you to write JavaScript using S-expression syntax and also allow you to write macros using the standard Racket tools such as syntax-parse. An example: http://soegaard.github.io/urlang/space-invaders.html The plan is to use Urlang as backed for a Racket to JavaScript compiler, but that project [*] is not ready for use yet (I plan to hack on this during the summer vacation). [*] https://github.com/soegaard/urlang/blob/master/compiler-rjs/compiler.rkt Whalesong implements full Racket with tco and correct error reporting. The Whalesong compiler only runs on old versions of Racket and Danny stopped worked on it years ago. /Jens Axel 2017-01-22 14:13 GMT+01:00 Stephen De Gabrielle <spdegabrie...@gmail.com <mailto:spdegabrie...@gmail.com>>: Hi, What are my options for doing client side web applications in Racket ? I've been getting my head around server side - I can auth a user and set a cookie - but I'm not sure what my options for client side web apps: - Should I be using Whalesong and/or Urlang? - Is there a right/wrong [WhaleSong | Urlang | JavaScript] framework? - Can I write both the front and back end in Racket? - Is WeScheme a Racket web app? I'm not sure where to start - the last time I did any significant JavaScript it was writing a pong game using the adobe svg plugin! Any feedback/advice appreciated, Kind regards, Stephen -- Kind regards, Stephen -- Bigger than Scheme, cooler than Clojure & more fun than CL.(n=1) -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <mailto:racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- Jens Axel Søgaard -- Kind regards, Stephen -- Bigger than Scheme, cooler than Clojure & more fun than CL.(n=1) -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <mailto:racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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