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Opal | opal-browser | |
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36 | 7 | |
4,805 | 110 | |
0.3% | 0.9% | |
9.1 | 5.8 | |
2 days ago | about 2 months ago | |
Ruby | Ruby | |
MIT License | Do What The F*ck You Want To Public License |
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Opal
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RubyJS-Vite
It's been a long time dream for me since about 2013 when I started getting deep into Ruby and Rails, to be able to write Ruby code for the frontend instead of JavaScript. I was a lover and adopter of CoffeeScript (which had it's flaws and imperfections), but that mostly got killed by ES6. I wrote some PoCs with Opal[1] that felt pretty good to write, but the overhead was rough (this was many years ago so things might be different now) and I never really felt like I didn't have to know about or care about the underlying javascript. I tend to discard leaky abstractions as I feel they often add more complexity than they were meant to cover in the first place.
Has anybody used this or Opal or anything else? What is the state of "write your frontend in Ruby" nowadays?
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Non-code contributions are the secret to open source success
Every time I see a respectable project use a Code of Conduct I remind myself that, unfortunately, Caroline Ada won[1]
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Coming to grips with JS: a Rubyist's deep dive
But we shouldn't overstate the difference: the JS and Ruby object models are actually similar in how dynamic both of them are. This makes Ruby-to-JS compilers like Opal easier to implement, according to an Opal maintainer.
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Opal – a Ruby to JavaScript source-to-source compiler
This is an interview with the author of Opal, here's the project:
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GCC Adopts a Code of Conduct
Not the OP, but from what I remember they would seek out every possible opportunity in every single possible open source community they could find and propose the CoC that they wrote. 0 contributions to the projects, with the exception of demanding that people implement incredibly verbose CoC's in their projects under the guise of "protecting the minorities contributing to the projects".
Most infamous instance is probably this one, in the Opal repo: https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941
As well as this thread in the Ruby issue tracker that devolves into pure chaos with Ada refusing to actually participate in any of the valid points others bring up: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12004
And I'm sure there's many other instances if you look around a bit.
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Hackers Flood NPM with Bogus Packages Causing a DoS Attack
My experience with ruby for front end web dev is via https://opalrb.com/
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The Rust Trademark Borrow Checker : Rust Foundation Solicits Feedback on Updated Policy for Trademarks
Here's an example of the creator of the most adopted CoC (the Contributor Covenant) trying to get an open source contributor removed from a project due to his political opinions expressed on Twitter which she didn't like and found offensive.
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Launch HN: Pynecone (YC W23) – Web Apps in Pure Python
So ruby has a JS transpiler - opal - https://opalrb.com/
I tried using it a little bit but the reality is if you need JS to make your app more interactable it's really worth it to just learn some JS. As soon as you need something complex the extra layer of abstraction just gets in the way and becomes more of a headache, and if you don't need anything complex then you don't need JS in the first place.
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DebunkThis: Coraline Ada Ehmke hasn't really contributed that much as far as code goes
I stumbled upon this thing from years ago. I did some more digging to see what other communities thought about it. Turns out that a lot of people are really against Coraline's side.
- All web applications may be created in the optimal environment created by Ruby, JS, and Vite.
opal-browser
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Opal v1.7 released with Ruby 3.2 support
Opal itself aims just at creating a Ruby runtime and a couple of life improvements, but there exist a couple of helper gems, for instance Opal-Browser (for an idiomatic API to interact with DOM and other browser APIs), Opal-Rails (for integrating with a Sprockets pipeline of Rails), Opal-RSpec (to test your frontend application). There exist a number of libraries and bindings to JS libraries for Opal.
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Opal 1.6.0 and Opal-RSpec 1.0.0 released
Opal is a Ruby (3.1) to JavaScript (ES5) compiler allowing you to write frontend code in pure Ruby and have it translated to clean and efficient JavaScript. It also includes a highly compatible core library that includes all the methods you've come to love. All this with a robust support of source maps, so you can debug Ruby code, not JavaScript in your Web Console. It can be used both to create websites entirely in Ruby (using Opal-Browser, or ports of known JavaScript libraries) and to port existing Ruby libraries to JavaScript, to be ran both in Node.JS and in web browsers (and other JavaScript environments).
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Opal 1.5.0 released - compile Ruby to JS and run it in a browser
You can use opal-browser, which - just like jQuery itself - wraps the DOM API, is much more maintained than opal-jquery, offers much more functionality and has a similar API to opal-jquery (and to Nokogiri).
For Rails integration we provide opal-rails, a Gem, that after inclusion will transparently handle .rb files in your JavaScript asset directory (via Sprockets). To interface with a web browser, you would also need to use opal-browser. As an alternative you can use Hyperstack, which deeply integrates React, Rails and Opal.
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Opal 1.3 released
Opal itself is a low-level thing, not depending on Rails whatsoever. We provide an official Gem for integration with Rails that integrates everything nicely and allows you to have .rb files in your JavaScript assets directory. Unlike Rails, Opal is not opinionated, to interface with web browser APIs properly you need to either use a library that wraps DOM directly, use a similar one that wraps jQuery or use Hyperstack, a fully-fledged Rails-integrated framework based on React that also allows you to share your models between frontend and backend. It's also possible to not use any of those and interface JavaScript APIs directly using an API that looks like this: $$[:document][:location].replace("https://opalrb.com/") or simply embed JavaScript with a backtick notation: `document.location.replace(#{@url})`.
- Opal 1.2 (a Ruby implementation in JavaScript) released with Ruby 3.0 support
What are some alternatives?
MRuby - Lightweight Ruby
opal-js_wrap-three - Three.JS for frontend Ruby (Opal) with almost 0 bindings
JRuby - JRuby, an implementation of Ruby on the JVM
Inesita - Frontend web application framework in Ruby using Opal.
Rubinius - The Rubinius Language Platform
opal-devtools - A Browser extension providing tools for developing with Opal Ruby in the browser.
Reactrb
YASL - Yet Another Serialization Library - A pure Ruby auto-serialization library that works across different Ruby implementations like Opal and JRuby as an automatic alternative to YAML/Marshal. Unlike Marshal, it does not raise errors for unserializable objects, thus provides a highly productive friction-free auto-serialization experience.
yjit - Optimizing JIT compiler built inside CRuby
opal-rspec - Opal + RSpec = ♥️
natalie - a work-in-progress Ruby compiler, written in Ruby and C++
isomorfeus-project - The powerful, isomorphic full stack web application development environment.