babelute

Babelute.js

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Internal Domain Specific (Multi)Modeling js framework

Really small, simple, incredibly powerful and super fast Descriptive Internal DSLs tools.

"A Babelut(t)e is a sort of long toffee flavoured with honey or vergeoise (demerara sugar) from [...] Flanders, Belgium".

Etymology : "[A french word that] is likely to come from the Flemish "babbelen", speaking a lot, and "uit", finished because when you eat the toffee, you cannot speak anymore (either because you are enjoying it or because you cannot open the mouth).[...]" - src : wikipedia

Babelute.js core library (this lib) provides helpers to :

• define and manage Internal DSLs for modeling any kind of problems
• with a simple (meta)grammar - based on Method Chaining - for writing structured unambiguous "sentences" (called babelutes)
• and to provide ways :
  • to manage dictionaries of related lexems (called lexicons) that form DSL semantic fields and their Internal Denotation
  • to translate DSL sentences to other DSL sentences (by example through dedicated bridge-DSLs with their own lexicon(s))
  • to interpret sentences in many context with specific fine grained dedicated implementations (called pragmatics)

Core Libraries

• babelute (this lib)
• babelute-uus : Universal Unambiguous Sentences proposal : Welcome in Sharing Era.

Understanding by examples

First of all, please read Designing a DSL.

Then take a look to existing DSLs.

(work in progress)

Low Level DSLs (Developement related domains) :

• babelute-aright : Objects and types validation DSL (ultra-fast, ultra-modular) (realease in april 2017)
• babelute-lexicon-definition-language : Babelute Lexic Definition DSL and its generators. (realease in april 2017)
• babelute-html-lexicon : HTML5 DSL and its render engines. (modern, one of the world's fastest, one-way-binding templating (React philosophy))

High Level DSLs (Human related domains) :

• babelute-cooking : High Level Cooking DSL demo and its bunch of transformations and DSLs targets. (realease in april 2017)

Theory background and development

(work in progress)

Theorical considerations are exposed here.

Licence

The MIT License

Copyright 2016-2017 (c) Gilles Coomans [e-mail]

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:

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Changelog

0.5.0 (2017-04-18)

Bug Fixes

• coverage: add istanbul ignore next on empty signature (e0453cb)
• lexicon: clean (ffd90eb)
• meta-api: finalise each for tests (0ac924c)
• pragmatics core: remove unneeded default arguments (35de44d)
• translation: remove old implementation (5811733)

Features

• translation: babelute.js : add _translate and _translateLexems implementation and add _translateLexemsThrough signature (57fc942)

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