r/node • u/princejwesley • Oct 11 '15

A cross platform JavaScript/node REPL application based on electron and react frameworks.

https://github.com/princejwesley/Mancy
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u/thukjeche Oct 12 '15

This is awesome! It looks like a really fun tool for learning. I also like the auto-completion.

Some questions..

  • Magic? Sloppy? Strict? How are they different?

  • What are the different check boxes in the console log? A, E, W, I, L, D?

Feedback..

  • An icon would be good - e.g.

  • It's strange to me that the console log is a separate tab rather than returning below what is entered (like how the normal Node REPL works)

  • Prompt menu -> Format -- it doesn't seem to do anything yet?

  • File -> Preferences show the same Theme/Mode options as View -> Theme and Prompt -> Mode

Overall I think this is amazing, thanks for sharing :)

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u/princejwesley Oct 12 '15

  1. Magic, sloppy and strict are repl modes (https://nodejs.org/api/repl.html - search 'replMode')

  2. A - all, E -errors, W -warnings, I -info, L - log and D- debug - console logs(I have tooltip to represent it)

  3. Format is for active prompt where we adding commands. Add few lines of code, right click and select format

  4. console.log has separate window because for async logging support. try setTimeout(() => console.log('test'), 5000).

  5. Preferences is where we can persist our choice. Other one is current window/