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Re:Portacle – A Portable Common Lisp Development Environment by vindarel on Thursday March 15, 2018 @10:00AM (#16592884)
There's a fantastic update of the Weblocks framework going on: https://github.com/40ants/weblocks/blob/reblocks/docs/source... it's more or less like React, components based, but server-based. We don't write any JS, the framework does jsonp calls and updates the UI.

I tried it, it works fine, but still very alpha and moving. However, thinking about the possibility to write a SPA all in Lisp (no JS!), and then with easy deployments, executables, easy inclusion with Electron (Ceramic) is extremely exciting.

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Re:Portacle – A Portable Common Lisp Development Environment by ScottBurson on Thursday March 15, 2018 @05:12PM (#16596558)
Great to see Weblocks getting some love! I wrote an app in it several years ago, and was helping maintain it for a while, but haven't had any need for it since.

Are you aware of my fork [0]? You're certainly welcome to take anything from there that you like. I think the most recent work was on the 'bootstrap' branch. I recall that I was going a little bit in a different direction from what the other maintainer wanted to do, but I no longer recall the details.

[0] https://github.com/slburson/weblocks

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