CLOG 1.3 and Builder 1.2 - Dev Journal

[rabbibotton]

So far CLOG 1.3 has been about tutorials and more documentation. The lower the barrier of entry to Lisp the more success CLOG will have. I should be completing this week the Common-Lisp tutorials this week although I plan on a supporting CLOG application that will reference back in to the tutorials as a companion to them.

Planned so far for 1.3

• API for Extending Builder
• Use the API to bind and create controls for Plotty (this could change post 1.3) - https://plotly.com/javascript/
• Work on CLOG-Monitor and CLOG-Auth as part of creating the clogpower.com website both as a home for CLOG related future projects by myself and hopefully all of you, and to show off CLOG as an alternative to web frameworks including best practices.

[rabbibotton]

Added so far:
with-connection-cache - use to reduce over the wire traffic when doing large setups of pages

[rabbibotton]

Added docs:
LEARN.md page - 15 Chapter introduction to Common Lisp
WINDOWS.md page - How to setup Common Lisp from scratch on Windows 64

[rabbibotton]

Added doc:
WEBSERVER.md - How to setup a CLOG webserver and SSL webserver

[rabbibotton]

clog-connection:break-on-error can be set to nil for production webserver use

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Added to INITIALIZE :boot-function - for handling search engine optimization - see tutorial 12

[rabbibotton]

I have added "extended-routing" optionally on initializing clog, when enabled allows routes to be extended such that an on-new-window-handler for /page1 would also handle /page1/any/thing/you/want the full URL is available in the handler using (path-name (location body))

I have updated tutorial-12

[rabbibotton]

I have implement long-polling optionally on initialize to allow website contents to be crawled by google and other web crawlers. It does so by using instead of WebSockets, HTML until the on-new-window handler returns and then switches it over to WebSockets.

This is a big step in setting up CLOG for general website use. Most websites are information based and want google to index them :)

I have updated tutorial-12

[rabbibotton]

Added clog-web-site - Instant websites to clog-web and a new Tutorial 30
In the future I will be adding more capabilities to the instant sites and themes

[rabbibotton]

Added clog-web-dbi - database components for use with clog-web-site based sites.

[rabbibotton]

Added to builder's application templates clog-web-site. Deployment details in WEBSITES.md and clogpower.com now uses clog-web-site. I have decide to push clog-monitor and blogging to 1.4, 1.3 does allow comments already. Going to work on docs and sample of wrapping JS libs as more immediately needed.

[rabbibotton]

clog-db-admin now runs from /dbadmin so can be run while running other projects running as the root url

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I added clog-db-admin to launch from the builder menu

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New tool (but really an older one) you can now do (clog-tools:clog-new-app) to run the new application templates outside of builder.

[rabbibotton]

Added call backs from javascript to clog as events that can be set on the CLOG side with set-on-event or set-on-event-with-data and called from the browser side using jQueries .trigger("costum-event-name", "data if desired")

[rabbibotton]

I have modified the default behavior when using load-script to now block return until script is loaded, This behavior is closer to html and safer overall for most apps. You can still set :wait-for-load nil and if desired you the set-on-load-script

[rabbibotton]

Added now the ability to create custom controls in builder. I am going to move CLOG to 1.3 officially in the next day or so and start the next blog for 1.4 which will focus on speeding up Builder and alignment of controls, maybe other UI improvements. I will also start work on the plotty.js binding soon.

[rabbibotton]

I have also added :load-only-once (default is t) to load-css file

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Added clog-plugin template
All the old templates now contain and asdf system /tools - the idea is simple, you add plugins to :depends-on in your regular system and them have an additional system /tools with a :depends-on that is #clog/tools and each plugin /tools that allows allows for run time vs design time systems and to load the needed plugins then can use (clog-tools:clog-builder) and your plugins are there to use.

[rabbibotton]

With that I am going to publish the current git as 1.3 and move on to work on improving design with builder.

plotty will become its own plugin project like clog-terminal and clog-typeahead when ready, also going to create a plugin for the ace editor used in demo 3 the lisp ide

clog-monitor will be part of clog-web-site enhancements that will come post 1.4