Project status

As mentioned at https://zestdocs.github.io/ I've now decided to stop maintaining Zest. Hence please do not expect updates or support. If anyone is insterested in continuing, feel free to contact me at the email from the commit messages. I'd be willing to transfer the zestdocs.org domain and Mac App Store app ownership in case someone shows more interest than me.

It was certainly fun to implement this project, but sadly I don't have enough motivation to continue at this point. I feel obliged to let the users know about this decision, hence the notice.

zest

Early Proof of Concept prototype. It's my first ClojureScript project ever, etc. Not really meant for release, published mostly in case someone wants to collaborate.

Requirements

• JDK 1.7+
• Leiningen 2.5.3
• Recent node.js
• Lucene++ (available at https://github.com/luceneplusplus/LucenePlusPlus)
• libarchive
• NSIS

On Mac/Linux, installing node.js using Node Version Manager is recommended.

This project uses Electron v0.35.2. Please check Electron's GitHub page for the latest version. The version is specified in Gruntfile.js under the Grunt Config section.

Setup

On Mac/Linux:

scripts/setup.sh

On Windows:

scripts\setup.bat

This will install the node dependencies for the project, along with grunt and bower and will also run grunt setup.

Development mode

Start the figwheel server:

lein figwheel

If you are on OSX/Linux and have rlwrap installed, you can start the figwheel server with:

rlwrap lein figwheel

This will give better readline support.

More about figwheel here.

In another terminal window, launch the electron app:

grunt launch

You can edit the src/cljs/zest/core.cljs file and the changes should show up in the electron app without the need to re-launch.

Using nREPL with figwheel

• Start the repl using lein repl.

user> (use 'figwheel-sidecar.repl-api)
nil
user> (def figwheel-config
        {:figwheel-options {:css-dirs ["app/css"]}
         :build-ids ["dev"]
         :all-builds
           [{:id "dev"
             :figwheel {:on-jsload "zest.core/on-figwheel-reload"}
             :source-paths ["src/cljs" "env/dev/cljs"]
             :compiler {:main "zest.dev"
                        :asset-path "js/p/out"
                        :output-to "app/js/p/app.js"
                        :output-dir "app/js/p/out" }}]})
#'user/figwheel-config
user> (start-figwheel! figwheel-config)
Figwheel: Starting server at http://localhost:3449
Figwheel: Watching build - dev
Compiling "resources/public/js/repler.js" from ["src/cljs" "env/dev/cljs"]...
Successfully compiled "app/js/p/app.js" in 2.06 seconds.
Figwheel: Starting CSS Watcher for paths  ["app/css"]
#<SystemMap>

See Figwheel wiki for more details.

Dependencies

Node dependencies are in package.json file. Bower dependencies are in bower.json file. Clojure/ClojureScript dependencies are in project.clj.

Icons

Please replace the icons provided with your application's icons. The development icons are from node-appdmg project.

Files to replace:

• app/img/logo.icns
• app/img/logo.ico
• app/img/logo_96x96.png
• scripts/dmg/TestBkg.png
• scripts/dmg/[email protected]

Creating a build for release

To create a Windows build from a non-Windows platform, please install wine. On OS X, an easy option is using homebrew.

On Windows before doing a production build, please edit the scripts/build-windows-exe.nsi file. The file is the script for creating the NSIS based setup file.

On Mac OSX, please edit the variables for the plist in release-mac task in Gruntfile.js.

Using electron-packager, we are able to create a directory which has OS executables (.app, .exe etc) running from any platform.

If NSIS is available on the path, a further setup executable will be created for Windows. Further, if the release command is run from a OS X machine, a DMG file will be created.

To create the release directories:

grunt release

This will create the directories in the builds folder.

Note: you will need to be on OSX to create a DMG file and on Windows to create the setup .exe file.

Grunt commands

To run a command, type grunt <command> in the terminal.

Leiningen commands

To run a command, type lein <command> in the terminal.

Acknowledgements

• Electron project template - https://github.com/ducky427/electron-template

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Rohit Aggarwal

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10844862 for inspiring me to implement the same project again :)

Basic Proof of Concept usage

DevDocs downloader, Stack Overflow torrent downloader, and Stack Overflow indexer are now implemented in the "Settings" modal.

extractor, sogrep, and searcher binaries need to be in the root directory of this repo. (extractor+sogrep and searcher can be built from the sogrep-src/ and nodelucene/ directories respectively - cmake . && make should do it, given installed libarchive, xerces, leveldb, rapidjson, and Lucene++)