Tonic
Dev tools
node repl
SHOW HN2015
342points
79comments
#37of 2,565 in 2015
Top 2%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
17 positive, 32 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 7 critical, out of 58 comments about the project. Thread score +0.17.
Idea: 8 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Polished design and easy to use, compared favourably to Jupyter
From 3 comments
Really impressive and beautifully designed. I currently use Jupyter, but what you've built feels a lot more polished and elegant. Any plans to open the source code or make it…
segphault on HNNot only does the tool look fantastic but so too does that landing page. I look forward to using this, great work!
lsjroberts on HNThis is exactly something I didn't know I was missing. Excellent tool! Looking forward to trying it out.
caffeinewriter on HN
Time travel and automatic package install features are impressive
From 2 comments
I was impressed by the Time Travel. If I delete a file through there, and "go back in time" would the files would still be there?
anotherangrydev on HN> The time travel stuff is somewhat transparent and hard to talk about. Wouldn't that mean it's opaque, since we can't see see into it? PS. That's picky. This is a rad project…
nailer on HN
Objections
Cannot be run locally or self-hosted
From 1 comment
It can't be run locally. Some of the feature we've built would be really difficult if not impossible to run offline. That said, maybe someday a paired down version for local use…
boucher on HN
Some UI and editor bugs such as keyboard shortcuts and modal issues
From 2 comments
The publishing modal seems to have a couple of bugs: 1 - When trying to add release notes it closes the modal every time you press a letter, though the letter is still there when…
lsjroberts on HNok now that ive used it theres one thing i dont like: * im changing code in a block but every time i eval it the 3 code blocks above re-expand the results i just hid... because…
mc_hammer on HN
Requests
Offline or self-hosted local version
From 3 comments
Really impressive and beautifully designed. I currently use Jupyter, but what you've built feels a lot more polished and elegant. Any plans to open the source code or make it…
segphault on HNSo it can't be used to replace the built-in REPL and play with your unpublished modules? That's a shame; the built-in node REPL has never been pleasant to work with. I would…
clessg on HNMyself (and likely others) would be willing to pay for an offline version.
kwcto on HN
Support for CoffeeScript and other compile-to-JS languages
From 3 comments
Beautiful work! Reminds me of a very polished Jupyter. Any plans to support compile-to-js languages? Coffeescript, etc.
mcrowe on HNwould be cool if fat arrows work also coffee script!
mc_hammer on HNI'd love CoffeeScript support. Additionally... Tonic is comparible to CodePen in terms of testing and thus gave me the idea; Perhaps you could also include other languages into…
babby on HN
Better charting and data visualization
From 2 comments
This is neat, but what I really need to do is... import a time series and see it plotted as line, bar, at different granularities, regress a trend line, do anomaly detection.…
rjurney on HNI would write a charting library that uses d3 to let you chart in the repl. Let me import a 1D array of numbers and make a histogram in one line. Let me import a time series and…
rjurney on HN
Questions
Will it be open sourced or paid?
From 1 comment
This is amazing, good work! Are you guys going to open source it or will this be a paid service?
vladikoff on HN
How async/await is supported
From 1 comment
So, I see async/await and they refer to ES7. I think that's cheating a little bit ? I am interested in how they achieved very clean async/await support. I'm assuming they are…
toong on HN
Alternatives named
Jupyter / IPython notebook
From 2 comments
Really impressive and beautifully designed. I currently use Jupyter, but what you've built feels a lot more polished and elegant. Any plans to open the source code or make it…
segphault on HNIs there a reason to use this over a JS kernel within Juypter?
lmeyerov on HN
Juno
From 1 comment
This looks like a verbatim ripoff of Juno, but I don't see any credit given to Juno or Mike Innes. It looks like they even cloned his site or used the same template.…
CyberDildonics on HN