whalerust

Experimental note-taking app inspired by roamresearch, obsidian, dendron, logseq etc.

Personal project get to know learn rust, wasm and svelte.

Development

setup

install cargo, yarn, tauri

1. run cargo test (required for generating typescript bindings)
2. wasm-pack build whale_rust_wasm/
3. run cargo run --package server --bin main path/to/your/roam_dump.json
4. run yarn dev to actual frontend (and proxying to the rust server)
5. run yarn tauri dev (while yarn dev is running)

tauri release

yarn install
wasm-pack build whale_rust_wasm/
yarn build
yarn tauri build

Dev-Diary

2022.03.13

• Switched from block-based rendering to full markdown editor like obsidian by using codemirror editor library.
  • the roam-block parser might still come in handy in for converting roam-blocks to markdown later - so far markdown conversion is very basic
  • added [[WikiLink]]-Syntax to the codemirror base markdown support
  • added some styling via tailwindcss
• idea:
  • would love to go beyond personal note taking - to go collaborative - by using holochain - which was what drew me to rust in the first place.

2022.03.04

• using rust pest PEG parser to parse roam-specific syntax
  • highlighting [[page references]] and ((block-references))

2022.02.17

• svelte rendered tauri app
• roamresearch json dump parsed via rust serde
• rust code is loaded as wasm

2022.01.28

time to learn [[rust]] for real - 4 that i need a [[project]] to start building - lets call it [[whalerust]]

• the goal is to
  • create a [[roamresearch]] dump viewer
  • create a [[wasm]] and serve it to a webpage