Haxe and JavaScript

There used to be a website (an old one, from when Haxe spelled "haXe") that got you started.

But that is no more. I decided to get some of that back. Based upon the information from the old site and my own need to document this.

Visit http://matthijskamstra.github.io/haxejs/

How to contribute?

Read more about that here. But it boils down to: JUST DO IT!

Visit https://github.com/MatthijsKamstra/haxejs to modify the "source" aka markdown files.

Found any "bug" or have a great idea? Please create a new issue.

How to build?

I will be using Gitbook to export to static html. You need to install Node.js and then you automatically have NPM:

Install gitbook

npm install gitbook-cli -g

or if you have gitbook installed, update it

gitbook update

I wanted to make the editing of these file as-easy-as-possible. This gitbook plugin helps with that: gitbook plugin edit link. And if all fails, I used Disqus comments on your books to add comments at the bottom of each page.

Activate the plugins with:

gitbook install

Export everything to html

gitbook build

NPM build

I created a little script with NPM to make my life somewhat easier:

npm run gitbook

Will install and update gitbook

npm run build

Will remove old docs- and _book-folder, build new gitbook and rename _book- to docs-folder.

npm run deploy

Will just push everything without consideration

What is Gitbook?

I will be using gitbook to generate the website.

Primarily reason for this: I have never used it, it uses markdown as input files and it also generates a static html site.

What is Markdown

A familiar way to write documentation for developers. This should make it easier to contribute!

Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax created by John Gruber, aiming to provide a easy-to-read and feasible markup. You can find the original Markdown syntax specification here.

MacDown is a simple-to-use editor for Markdown documents. It renders your Markdown contents real-time into HTML, and display them in a preview panel. You can download it here.

Original haxejs.org

You can find the original data with WayBack Machine