SJsjrd·Nov 26, 2019
Workbench [1], for example :)
[1] https://github.com/lihaoyi/workbench
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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4 sources- IDEs for Scala are pretty good, nowadays. They do all of what you mentioned (except unhandled exceptions, because that's a Java-specific thing).
- There's no difference between Scala and Scala.js support. To your IDE, Scala.js is Just Scala.
- There is a development cycle, absolutely, and it's pretty fast! With Workbench (https://github.com/lihaoyi/workbench) you don't even need to reload the page: it does so automatically!
- For React, there is essentially scalajs-react (https://github.com/japgolly/scalajs-react). It does not support inline-XML per se, because it relies more on ScalaTags instead (https://github.com/lihaoyi/scalatags), but at some point there was a proof of concept showing it was possible to implement with macros.
In Scala.js no longer experimentalIt's basically equivalent to Scala for the compilation itself (no noticeable difference).
But the browser refresh in dev mode can take up to 5 seconds (or down to under 1 sec, depends on the machine).
There is a tool that helps with this by using clever tricks to refresh the browser without reparsing the standard lib:
https://github.com/lihaoyi/scala-js-workbench
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