Pollen-Rock

Pollen-Rock provides an improved rendering server and an in-browser editor for pollen.

Note

This project is still at its early development stage. Feedback and suggestions are welcome.

Documentation

See pollen-rock for documentation.

ChangeLog

0.7.0

Features

• Server provides mtime on reads and writes of a file to detect modifictions from multiple clients
• A new design and rewrite of the front end editor. The editor provides a lot of handy features
  • Sidebar for project navigation
  • Multi-client detection to avoid silent overwrite
  • Cursor position tracking in the editor to provide tag path and tag signature
  • Enhanced editor to work better with pollen command boundaries; inserting and deleting braces become smart
  • Editor focus mode to remove UI cluster
  • Resizable vertical and horizontal preview split
  • Syntax highlight for almost all languages (auto detected by file extensions)
• The editor can highlight and jump to the corresponding position when a piece of searchable text in preview is selected

0.6.0

Features

• Server provides RESTful APIs
• Docs are available. Yea!

0.5.0

Features

• Support create/rename/delete project files on index page
• Make editor fonts available locally on the server (network font dependencies are removed)
• Add server side logging
• Add --local option for secure access

Bug Fixes

• fixed a bug that could cause data lose when user closes browser immediately after typing.
• fixed a bug that TAB replaces select region with a TAB; TAB now indents a selected region

0.4.1

Features

• Editor can edit Racket and HTML files
• Editor recognizes Racket code in Pollen file (supports mixed pollen and Racket code in pm files)

Enhancement

• Editor parser respects the command char defined in pollen.rkt and pollen/setup.

0.4.0

Features

• Implement a simple autocomplete that can autocomplete tag names defined and exported in pollen.rkt

Enhancement

• Editor now shows server errors
• UI supports updating editor settings
• CodeMirror upgrades to 5.27
• Implement JSON RPC in racket to provide a manageable way to extend server features
• Completely rewrite the editor using ES6; implement the editor in event-based MVC

Break Compatibility

• Removed shell command panel (keep the app simple; not sure how useful it is to others)

0.3.2

Features

• add theme (rename Help to Settings)

Enhancement

• upgrade CodeMirror to 5.24

0.3.1

Features

• add option (--no-shell) to disable the terminal
• add checks on unsaved document before browser is closed

0.3.0

Features

• add protocol to watch file changes
• Implement auto-reload rendered pages

0.2.0

Features

• add the ability to run shell command in editor
• add a placeholder in editor for an empty article body
• add buttons "shell" and "help"

Enhancement and Bugfix

• Improve autosave: it takes place only when users stop typing
• Improve Preview: Preview rendering interacts nicely with autosave.
• Redefine layout to remove two adjacent scrollbars on Windows
• Redefine layout to display a clean layout on mobile
• Improve scrolling: scolling in Preview doesn't affect other components now.