stencila/stencila 0.14

Stencila 0.14

on GitHub

This release mainly adds a bunch of functionality to the Javascript module. Stencils can now be written targeting a browser context in a similar way to those targeting R or Python contexts. Browser-based stencils have similar rendering functionality as those targeting other contexts, implementing the main directives such as exec, text, with, for, if etc. They can request data (e.g. from an API) and render them when they are asynchronously returned. For example, here's a snippet of Cila for the core/stencils/index stencil which powers the page at https://stenci.la based on our API:

for component in components
    .component with component
        a [target=_blank] attr href "/"+address
            .head
                .title text title
                .address text address
            .body
                img.preview attr src address+"/preview.png"

Although the focus of this release is the Javascript module, there are other changes that improve the C++, Python and R packages (for a full list of commits for this release see here). At this stage, binaries are only provided for Linux 64-bit...

C++

Get the pre-compiled static library and header files at http://get.stenci.la/cpp/stencila-linux-x86_64-0.14.tar.gz

Python

Install the package for Python 2.7:

sudo pip install http://get.stenci.la/py/stencila-0.14-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl

R

Install the package for R 3.2:

wget http://get.stenci.la/r/complete/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.2/stencila_0.14.tar.gz;
sudo R CMD INSTALL stencila_0.14.tar.gz

Docker

Docker images for Stencila on either Python and R (plus a bunch of "helpers" needed for some functionality) are also available at https://registry.hub.docker.com/repos/stencila/