README.md

Wunderbar Tutorial

The Introduction explains the rationale for the _Wunderbar way and leads new users through some tutorials implemented with Wunderbar.

• A simple Hello World
• Hello World with logic and style
• Basic Chat is easy to build
• System commands can be directly output
• A simple Wiki with previews
• Adding modularity with common runtimes (Sinatra, polymer, etc.)
• Defining Extensions to Wunderbar itself
• Basic Calendar app implemented in Wunderbar
• _Suffix And Options CheatSheet

Wunderbar Code

Wunderbar features include globals and environment vars, command line options, and app logging.

• Wunderbar in lib/wunderbar is documented in the code
• Helper tools like web2script.rb
• Basic test scripts for core behavior in Wunderbar

Special Characters

As a general convention in output, underscores in element and attribute names are converted to dashes. A few other special character conventions are used in Wunderbar.

• _: underscore generally refers to Wunderbar itself, but is used in a variety of other contexts as well
• _p "This emits a paragraph." and is the most common usage
• _.comment "This is a Wunderbar comment." as a method on Wunderbar itself
• _.system "git add #{file}" executes the command and outputs results
• When used, jQuery is mapped to ~ instead of $, thus: ~'textarea'.readonly = true

Method Suffixes:

• !: normally turns off all special processing, including indenting
• ?: normally adds code to rescue exceptions and produce tracebacks
• _: adds extra blank lines between this tag and siblings