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744 :: Nim at heroku.

• vic (orginal) [2015-01-11T11:05:32+01:00] view original

  Hey all,

  I've just started to learn Nim this weekend, and finding it very enjoyable. I found about the Jester web framework and just wanted to deploy a hello world to heroku, so I quickly created a buildpack that uses Nimble for building your app.

  http://github.com/vic/heroku-buildpack-nim

  I'd really love seeing more people get interested in Nim, and them creating some interesting web apps with it.

  My example app is just a hello world, but since Nim can also be compiled to Javascript I'm gonna try including a bit of Nim code to be compiled as javascript and being sent to the client browser, just for fun, and for demoing an all-nim web app.

  Does anybody know how can I specify inside a Nimble file, that some file needs to be compiled as javascript?

  Hope you guys find this interesting, as I'm finding Nim.

  Cheers!

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• gradha (orginal) [2015-01-11T18:33:36+01:00] view original

  The backend optional works for the whole package, so you could put js code in a subdirectory with its own nimble spec. If that is too limited maybe you should use a custom nakefile to drive compilation as you need it.

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• IvanHernandez (orginal) [2015-02-05T23:27:24+01:00] view original

  Hey!

  I have used this buildpack... and it works great!.

  You can see the code for a very raw REST API prototype at my github and a working instance at Heroku.

  So, a big thank you.

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• dom96 (orginal) [2015-02-06T01:29:38+01:00] view original

  That's really cool!

  Awesome to see Jester being used on Heroku :)

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