We've had a busy year, including receiving a donation from Albert Wenger [1], which is being used to hire another developer to work on the project. Feel free to ask any questions in this thread and I'll do my best to provide thoughtful responses.
[1] http://continuations.com/post/166234021110/support-idyll-int...
What are the possibilities around contributing to idyll? Building on top of it? Is it as simple as writing my own components?
I'm specifically interested in uis to define data structures. One of the more annoying things I found working with d3 to create graphs (as in graph theory) was defining the graphs procedurally, so I built a ui to define graphs graphically.
I'd love to talk more about possible ways to collaborate. Adding components that help interface with other libraries are a great way to contribute. For example, the recent integration with Apparatus [1].
Feel free to jump in our chat [2] or shoot me an email [3] and we can talk more.
[1] https://mathisonian.com/writing/apparatus [2] https://gitter.im/idyll-lang/Lobby [3] <anything> at mathisonian dot com
Frequently I'll have a data set (list of transactions over time, log of analytics events to a site, etc.) that I want to visualize. It usually involves slicing the data in multiple ways with a handful of queries.
It'd be really cool if I could load up a CSV file / SQLite database per document and embed charts that visualize queries on that data. The goal would be to keep the data, visualizations, and text as close together as possible.
Short of this feature being available, I can only do something like:
- write some SQLite queries
- write a quick script to run each query, and save the results to a file (CSV/JSON)
- reference each individual file from the Idyll document
Again, really cool project!