Major update ⚗️

Plotting Functions

Finally, BarPlot, BubbleChart, and other similar types of diagrams are supported by wljs-graphics-d3.

If PlotRange is not provided, it attempts to autoscale the axes while maintaining an equal aspect ratio.

DensityPlot works since we implemented GraphicsComplex with the VerticesColor option.

Unfortunately, only flat-shading is supported, meaning it does not interpolate a color between vertices of a single triangle. This is a bit tricky in SVG. Probably, we would need to move to canvas and use JavaScript raster graphics for this purpose.

Editor

• Autocomplete user-defined symbols. The frontend communicates with the Wolfram Kernel every time a new symbol is created. This does have some drawbacks in terms of performance because any internal Wolfram Package brings a lot (~10^4) of new symbols in a private context, which have to be filtered out on the fly. We use $NewSymbol internal handler to manage this.

UI Update

• Acrylic material is now supported under Windows 11 & OSX.

• Extended CSS customization and custom HTML header support (directly from the settings menu).

Wolfram Expressions

• Mathematica's Boxes improvements. Now everything is a box, and one can also use the native MakeBoxes approach to construct decorations for Wolfram Expressions. Please refer to the Docs.
  ByteArray, Now, and RGBColor show an expected placeholder.

• Very powerful components EditorView and InputTable were added.

Miscellaneous

• Unicode support (Можно писать 何でも). This was done in a somewhat unconventional way, by running over all text strings with a JavaScript RegExp, since Wolfram Language does not provide a clear way to export expressions as a Text + JSON string. Hopefully, it will not introduce any performance issues.

• More built-in examples (see File -> Open Examples).

• A standalone client/server mode of the app was added. Since our desktop app is basically a Chromium wrapper over the wolframscript web-server, it allows you to run the server independently. A standalone client app provides a bit more functions compared to if it were opened in a browser, such as: context menu, a top-bar menu, hot-keys... Menu->Reopen as server/client.

Documentation

There are still many empty pages in Reference; however, some of the sections have been finished.

Troubleshooting

Please have a look at this page if you face any issues.

Acknowledgements

@MitsuhaMiyamizu for being the first and only sponsor of this project! ❤️

Devs

@JerryI, @KirillBelovTest