Oni Apollo is a StratifiedJS implementation + a supporting set of modules. It runs server-side (based on NodeJS) as well as client-side (cross-browser).
For an overview see onilabs.com/apollo.
Please post questions to the Apollo Google Group.
apollo
to get a serverside SJS REPL.Everything is already pre-built.
No need to compile anything unless you change something in the src/ directory. In that case, you can use the src/build/make-apollo tool to reassemble oni-apollo.js and oni-apollo-node.js. The build process should work on most unixy environments out of the box (in particular it requires CPP - the C preprocessor).
No need to install anything.
For server-side use, you can just execute the apollo
executable (provided you have nodejs installed).
Alternatively you can install with npm (see the package.json script).
For client-side use, just include the oni-apollo.js file in your html, as described at onilabs.com/apollo.
Note that, by default, if you load standard library modules using code such as
var http = require('apollo:http');
the module will be requested from
LOCATION_WHERE_ONI_APOLLO_JS_WAS_LOADED_FROM/modules
This location can only be inferred if you load oni-apollo.js in the 'normal' way. If you rename oni-apollo.js to something else, or you don't load it through a <script> tag, you'll need to manually configure the 'apollo' hub before you can make calls such as require('apollo:http')
.
To (re-)configure the 'apollo hub', you can use code such as this:
require.hubs.unshift(
["apollo:",
"http://code.mydomain.com/apollo-mirror/modules/"]
]);
// all modules addressed as 'apollo:' will now be loaded from the
// location above.
Note that many browsers cannot load modules over the file:
protocol. You can use rocket
to serve up the apollo directory locally. Alternatively, you can serve oni-apollo.js and the modules/ directory with a different web server, or load oni-apollo.js & modules/ from http://code.onilabs.com/ as described at onilabs.com/apollo.