cursed tera moments

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Michael Zhang 2020-02-11 23:46:13 -06:00
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insert_anchor_links = "right"
sort_by = "date"
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This past weekend, while on my trip to Minneapolis, I completed a very early prototype of "enterprise", a new UI framework I've been kind of envisioning over the past couple of weeks. While the UI framework is mainly targeted at web apps, the hope is that with a bit more effort, native UIs can be produced with almost no changes to existing applications. Before I begin to describe how it works, I'd like to acknowledge [Nathan Ringo][1] for his massively helpful feedback in both the ideation and the implementation process.
## Goals of the project
* **Complete separation of business logic from UI.** Theoretically, one could completely retarget the application to a completely different platform (mobile, web, native, something new that will pop up in 5 years), without changing any of the core logic. As enterprise grows to include a backend, this should be true of the backend as well. It does this by introducing [DSL][2]s that are completely architecture-independent.
* **Frontend relationships should be as static as possible.**
* **Complete separation of business logic from UI.** Theoretically, one could completely retarget the application to a completely different platform (mobile, web, native, something new that will pop up in 5 years), without changing any of the core logic. It does this by introducing [DSL][2]s that are completely architecture-independent.
* **Maximally static component relationships.** Like [Svelte][3], I'm aiming to resolve as many relationships between elements as possible during compile-time, to avoid having to maintain a full virtual DOM at runtime.
*
## Prototype
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});
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Surely, this works, but it doesn't scale. If you try to write a page full of these kind of bindings directly using JavaScript, you're either going to start running into bugs or building up a pile of unmaintainable spaghetti code.
So how does enterprise represent this? Well, the enterprise DSL has no concrete syntax yet, but if it did, it would look something like this:
Surely, this works, but it doesn't scale. If you try to write a page full of these kind of bindings directly using JavaScript, you're either going to start running into bugs or building up a pile of unmaintainable spaghetti code. How does enterprise represent this? Well, the enterprise DSL has no concrete syntax yet, but if it did, it would look something like this:
```
model {
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}
```
[1]: https://remexre.xyz
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language
[3]: https://svelte.dev

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template = "listing.html"
page_template = "post.html"
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{% endblock %}
{% block content %}
{{ blog::postlisting(posts=section.pages) }}
{{ blog::sectionlisting(section=section) }}
<p style="text-align: center;">
<small><a href="/rss.xml">click here for RSS feed</a></small>

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{% macro sectionlisting(section) %}
<table style="width: 100%;">
{{ self::postlist(section=section) }}
</table>
{% endmacro postlisting %}
{% macro postlisting(posts) %}
<table style="width: 100%;">
{% for post in posts %}
{{ self::display_post(post=post) }}
{% endfor %}
</table>
{% endmacro postlisting %}
{% macro postlist(section) %}
{% set post_paths = self::recursive_visit(section=section) %}
{% set_global posts = [] %}
{% for path in post_paths | split(pat="&") %}
{% set clean_path = path | trim %}
{% if clean_path == "" %}{% continue %}{% endif %}
{% set post = get_page(path=clean_path) %}
{% set_global posts = posts | concat(with=post) %}
{% endfor %}
{% for post in posts | sort(attribute="date") | reverse %}
{{ self::display_post(post=post) }}
{% endfor %}
{% endmacro %}
{% macro recursive_visit(section) %}
{% if section.extra.include_posts == true %}
{% for page in section.pages %}{{ page.relative_path }}&{% endfor %}
{% for sub in section.subsections %}
{{ self::recursive_visit(section=get_section(path=sub)) }}
{% endfor %}
{% endif %}
{% endmacro %}
{% macro display_post(post) %}
{% if not post.draft %}
<tr class="postlisting-row">
<td>
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{% endif %}
</tr>
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
</table>
{% endmacro postlisting %}
{% endmacro %}