okay okay okay
got some coffee in me tryna fuck up the day now
thinking about this electron app it’s so obvious this needs to be supremely modular
i am going to strip out codemirror and make it a ‘component’
this allows me to do all kinds of things. hopefully can compose these components on the fly
basically am going to have ‘workspaces’ and ‘components’
exactly the difference yet i am not sure. you can definitely embed workspaces within eachother and define actions on workspaces, however components are merely part of a workspace and can communicate with eachother in that workspace (and perhaps outside of it)
this definition is not clear yet but anyhow
one thing i think would be SICK. to be able to have code being written (say a python script) in one component then a terminal in another and directly be able to get the output. would also be amazing to have these scripts interact with the workspace itself (maybe this is an environment?)
environment > workspace > component
can this be nested infinitely? def is a graph so idk yet.
anyway time to PLAY
Honestly I’m dead right now. I can’t believe how easy it is to get arbitrary code to be added to my electron app. I mean I haven’t properly done it yet, but through the dev console it proves the potential. What I mean is right now I just have some basic stuff set up in electron. All it does is provides simple access to the window and then you can just paint arbitrary HTML on it. Again I can’t believe this, because this should mean that it should be possible to execute arbitrary code in this env. I mean this is also hack as fuck. But it seems like it could be some real fun.
So time to get a ‘text’ component built in: This will be ‘write in md’ (with syntax highlighting) if focused. If not then it should render the HTML (maybe I will do this via webasm?n)
For now I want all of these to be linear (so its easy to see), then later change this to be arbitrary.
Basically I have no idea what I am doing. However I do have some semblance of a plugin system working. So you can help to define your own “workspaces” which are just a bunch of components composed together. More details to come as I continue to figure things out.
So busy, but in a good way. Just doing a summary here since I am writing this late and want to get to working on some other things
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