Getting started web developpement with GNU Guile (with guile fibers) and BiwaScheme

[Amirouche <amirouche@hypermove.net>]

I made a screencast explaining how I would start building a poll application
using by favorite tools of the moment.

There GNU Guile in the backend using the new guile-fibers to run the 
http server
workers.

In the frontend I use BiwaScheme with snabbdom library for interacting 
with the
browser.

BiwaScheme is a Scheme interpreter written in JavaScript.

Snabbdom is library that implement a diff+patch algorithm which allows 
to declare
how the page will look and it make it happen. It also handles bindings 
events to
callbacks. The use of snabbdom is bound to scheme and its use is 
transparent.

The first video, I try to explain what tools I will use and sort of why. 
It's not
very interesting https://youtu.be/i47QgE0ihSw

The second video, I tackle an issue in forward.scm, basically I am bug 
hunting in
the browser: https://youtu.be/to8vdri82_E

The last is the most interesing, it restart where I left it in the 
previous video
with basically a minimal frontend (so you might want to look at the 20 
last minutes
of the second video). Anyway, then it goes on to allow the frontend 
(client side)
to communicate with the backend (server side) using HTTP: 
https://youtu.be/ePiHp1lgbas

The code can be found @ https://framagit.org/a-guile-mind/azul

azul means "hello" in amazigh.

Happy hacking!

~ amz3 ~ http://hyperdev.fr