Fernando’s Corner
Cromponent now lets your components bind cookies, query-string params, headers and HTTP-auth credentials directly in the method signature and push live HTML over WebSockets with two tiny hooks. Paired with HTMX on the client, that means real-time Raku apps with zero JavaScript. Below you’ll find the new API plus a complete “live poll” example.
Wayland’s Corner
Wayland shared another thoughtful and well reasoned blog setting out the Raku: Pathways of Entry in his Scriptorium. It’s good to see a piece that puts these points into concrete form for us all to consider and help to refine a solution.
Steve’s Corner
Steve harcs on with HARC Stack: Modelling, the ninth in the serious and is happy that he gets to wield the power of Red to make an Air::Component that embodies model, view, controller behaviour and SQL database backend (the “A” in HARC is Air and the “R” is Red).
Author’s note: Air::Component reuses FCO’ Cromponent module. These new features will be available in Air soon.
Weeklies
Weekly Challenge #330 is available for your perusal.
New Problem Solving Issues
New Pull Requests
- Pois.Nada standardizes the reference to the metamodel #4201 and Removes deprecated OpaquePointer reference #4602
- Will Coleda Tests and fixes that Instant.from-posix-nanos and Instant.from-posix match
Core Developments
- … none this week …
Meanwhile on Bluesky
- what’s the best way to install zef in Fedora 42 (in WSL) ? by zabumbista
- started with Wayland by Wendy van Dijk.
Meanwhile on YouTube
- https://www.youtube.com/@YAPCNA has a clutch videos from the recent TPRC in Greenville SC.
In Memoriam
- Sad news: it was posted that Matt S. Trout (mst) passed away.
New Raku Modules
- LLM-Character, Vips::Native and Term::Size by Matt Doughty.
- File::Copy and File::Path::Copy (a rename?) by Francis Grizzly Smit.
Updated Raku Modules
- PublicSuffix by José Joaquín Atria.
- Sparrow6 by Alexey Melezhik.
- SBOM::CycloneDX by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
- Cairo by timo.
- Image::PNG::Portable (forked) by Matt Doughty.
- Cromponent by Fernando Corrêa de Oliveira.
- App::pack by Francis Grizzly Smit.
- Test::Coverage by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
Winding down
A quiet week in Core. Quite of lot of activity on the web application side with Cromponents if you like to cut Cro templates or the HARC stack if you want to write your web app in raw Raku. Both leveraging the HTMX library that decouples the server side from JavaScript. Please keep staying safe and healthy, and keep up the good work! Even after week 26 of hopefully only 209.
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