Source of `index.html`

[logc]

Hello! I watched your presentation live on the European Lisp Symposium last week, and was very impressed with the technology. I am reading up the source of index.html here, to understand how to embed a Gambit REPL and demo the same FFI on my own.

I am wondering if index.html is generated from something else, like an org-mode file. Perhaps reading that directly would be easier to grasp and use, for me.

Thanks for any help!

[belmarca]

Hi Luis,

Glad you liked it! The index.html file was written by hand and is in essence a big hack constructed for ELS. I would suggest to first compile your own REPL by going to the contrib/try directory in the Gambit repo and run make try. You can launch a web server from there which will serve the files on localhost.

Once you can compile your own REPL, you can use it elsewhere. For that, you basically need these imports. Basically, just follow what is done in Gambit's contrib/try/index.html where you can see the UI being initialized using body onload.

If you want to use multiple views of the same REPL, you need multiple divs to populate by invoking the new_repl method, as is done here.

I understand that these instructions might not be enough to get going without hiccups. Please try it out and let me know if you need any more assistance. Facilitating usage and deployment is definitely needed!