Hi,

We're happy to announce the general availability of Willow and it's related projects in the Web Stack ecosystem hosted at https://github.com/ba-st/.

Willow is a Web Interaction Library that eases the burden of creating AJAX-based web applications. The project goals are:

• Provide a Smalltalk protocol for the interactive behavior of web components
• Reify the pieces of a web application to improve reuse
• Offer a simple and polymorphic protocol for different front-end frameworks.

It's MIT licensed and built on top of the Seaside Web Framework providing a set of composable components and easier AJAX interaction. It's intented to work alongside the RenoirSt DSL to define the CSS of your application.

This is a multi-release announcement of the following related projects:

• Willow v4.0.0 : Core features, components and commands
• Willow-Bootstrap v4.0.0 : Bootstrap 3 integration, components and plugins
• Willow-JQueryUI v4.0.0 : JQuery UI integration and components.
• Willow-SpinKit v1.0.2 : Spinner components
• Willow-Playground v1.0.0 : An interactive presentation introducing the project and two example applications: Web Based Test Runner and Live Docs.

• RenoirSt v3.3.0 : CSS DSL. [ Latest Changes: Updated Seaside dependencies (for the Seaside extensions groups) and added Pharo 7 to the build matrix. ]
  

SemanticUI integration is still a work in progress.

We've started working on a more complete tutorial and a Pharo booklet.

Anyone interested in joining our ba-st projects is welcome

Regards,

Gabriel Cotelli, Maxi Tabacman and all the contributors.