CodeParadise

This work has opened up many possibilities over the years - who would have thought that https://github.com/ErikOnBike/CodeParadise/blob/master/READM... was possible? Running a tiny image in the browser courtesy of SqueakJS is viable and very productive.

So there is [1] https://squeak.js.org/ and [2] https://github.com/codefrau/SqueakJS which seems to be able to not only run Squeak, but also [3] https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/wiki/Ru... and [4] https://github.com/carolahp/pharo to shrink and adapt these images to be able to run on common JS-runtimes in acceptable speeds and memory usage. There is also [5] https://caffeine.js.org/ and [6] https://github.com/ErikOnBike/CodeParadise bidirectionally <=> bridging the gap between Smalltalk and JS even more, with [7] https://www.webcomponents.org/ I think it should be possible to port, maybe to even have some hypercard-like visual website builder/explorable explanations thing.

Instead of having a Smalltalk image which contains the typical GUI (Morphic or otherwise being BitBlt on a HTML Canvas) I run a Smalltalk image which has a number of Classes representing WebComponents. These classes have a small interface with Javascript (implemented as primitive calls in case you are familiar, similar to other SqueakJS plugins). When instantiating such a WebComponent, it will also instantiate a DOM element (the WebComponent). Events in the browser are wrapped in Smalltalk event classes and will be given to an event handler process (Smalltalk process) which will do the relevant work. So for example drag and drop is implemented fully in Smalltalk. The Smalltalk image I run to have this Web UI (and run only a Web UI, no business logic in the browser) is very small. It is only a little over 200Kb. My code is free to use. See