stencila

Stencila is a platform for creating, collaborating on, and sharing data driven content. Content that is transparent and reproducible, like RMarkdown and Jupyter Notebooks. Content that can be versioned and composed just like we do with open source software using tools like CRAN and NPM. And above all, content that is accessible to non-coders, like Google Docs and Microsoft Office.

Roadmap

Stencila is still in beta: things are preliminary and there are one or two :bug:s! Below, ticks indicate a feature is in the latest release. Numbers (e.g. 0.27) indicate the release a feature is planned for. We generally only plan one or two releases ahead. We aim to release every 1-2 months, towards a 1.0 release in early 2018. Checkout the current release milestones.

Feature	Ready
Documents	✓
Sheets
Slides
Static content
Paragraph	✓
Headings	✓
Blockquote	✓
Image
List	✓
Table	✓
Strong & emphasis	✓
Link	✓
Subscript & superscript	✓
Code block	✓
Math (AsciiMath and Tex)	✓
Discussions
Reproducible content
Number input (range slider)	✓
Select input (name value pairs)	✓
File input (CSV etc)
Code cell	✓
Output (value display)	✓
Execution contexts
JavaScript	✓
Node.js	✓
R	0.26
Python	0.26
Julia
Jupyter kernels	0.27
Functions
Statistics (sum, mean, variance, ...)	0.26
Data manipulation (filter, sort, aggregate, ...)	0.26
Data visualization (plot, title, theme, ...)	✓
Contribute more...	✓
Formats
HTML	✓
JATS
Markdown	0.26
RMarkdown	0.26
Jupyter Notebook
Microsoft Office
Open/Libre Office

Download

Application or package	Ready
Stencila Desktop (native apps for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux)	✓
Stencila for Python pip install stencila	0.26
Stencila for R install.packages('stencila')	0.26
Stencila for Node.js npm install stencila-node	✓

We love feedback. Create a new issue, add to existing issues or chat with members of the community.

Develop

git clone https://github.com/stencila/stencila.git
cd stencila
npm install
npm run start

Now you can access the different interfaces in the browser:

• http://localhost:4000/examples/dashboard
• http://localhost:4000/examples/document

Most development tasks can be run directly using JavaScript tooling (npm) or via make.

Task	npm	make
Install and setup dependencies	npm install	make setup
Run the development server	npm start	make run
Check code for lint	npm run lint	make lint
Run tests	npm test	make test
Run tests in the browser	npm run test-browser	make test-browser
Run tests with coverage	npm run cover	make cover
Build bundles	npm build	make build
Build documentation	npm run docs	make docs
Run documentation server	npm run docs-serve	make docs-serve
Clean		make clean

To contribute, get in touch, checkout the platform-wide, cross-repository kanban board, or just send us a pull request! Please read our contributor code of conduct.

API documentation is at http://stencila.github.io/stencila/. These are published using Github Pages, so to update them after making changes: run make docs, commit the updates and do a git push.