ormolu-live

Ormolu Live

Play around with Ormolu in the browser via the GHC WASM backend!

https://ormolu-live.tweag.io

Overview

We use the Miso framework together with jsaddle-wasm. Most of the code is in src/Ormolu/Live.hs. The WASM module is run in a web worker to avoid UI stuttering when formatting larger code chunks.

Additionally, we depend on a few packages via npm for JS and CSS, see package.json.

Finally, everything is brought together in www/{index,worker}.js.

Building

Make sure to be in the .#ormoluLive Nix shell when entering ./ormolu-live, e.g. conveniently via nix-direnv.

Local interactive development

Install the npm dependencies:

npm install

If necessary, update the index state:

wasm32-wasi-cabal update

If you only want to get fast feedback on compilation failures, use

ghcid -c 'wasm32-wasi-cabal repl'

If you actually want to interact with the site in a browser, run sth like

watchexec -w src -w app -w ormolu-live.cabal ./build.sh

and serve the resulting build products via

miniserve dist

and view the site at http://127.0.0.1:8080/index.html.

Building the site for deployment

npm ci
wasm32-wasi-cabal update
./build.sh prod

The self-contained site is now in dist.

Acknowledgements

https://github.com/monadfix/ormolu-live