The Web Pipe Programming Language

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• williamcotton 3 hours ago

  Technically this is a DSL and not a general purpose language!

  Here's an example of the latest thing I was playing around with:

    GET /:city/weather.svg
      |> fetch("https://geocoding-api.open-meteo.com/v1/search?name=" + .params.city + "&count=10&language=en&format=json", {method: "GET"})
      |> jq: `{
        latitude: .data.response.results[0].latitude | tostring,
        longitude: .data.response.results[0].longitude | tostring
      }`
      |> fetch("https://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast?latitude=" + .latitude + "&longitude=" + .longitude + "&hourly=temperature_2m", {method: "GET"})
      |> jq: `
        .data.response.hourly as $h |
        [$h.time, $h.temperature_2m] | transpose | map({time: .[0], temp: .[1]})
      `
      |> gg({ "type": "svg", "width": 800, "height": 400} ): `
        aes(x: time, y: temp)
          | line()
          | point()
      `
  

  That "gg" middleware is another project I started very recently: https://github.com/williamcotton/gramgraph

  The language is polyglot in nature. Pipelines and DSLs all the way down.

  I do a lot of data analysis and typically write bash scripts that query a database, return csv, pipe, plot with ggplot2, etc, and I wanted a similar sort of environment for writing web applications and whatnot.

  Here's an introduction: https://williamcotton.com/articles/basic-introduction-to-web...

  Here's an article on the the GraphQL implementation, complete with Data Loader pattern baked in: https://williamcotton.com/articles/graphql-dataloader-patter...

  Personally my favorite bit is how the the BDD-testing framework is baked right into the language and runtime, which allows for some cool interactions with the LSP: https://github.com/williamcotton/webpipe/blob/main/todos.wp#...

  Oh, and here's the LSP (with GIFs showing some features), which also integrates with a full DAP step debugger: https://github.com/williamcotton/webpipe-lsp

  And of course my blog is written using this language:

  https://github.com/williamcotton/williamcotton.com/blob/main...

  I would love some feedback!