[marknadal]

and how long till Urbit can render marl marx and mane? aka how long till I can make a UX using web technologies that runs on Urbit?

[yebyen]

All of that stuff works now. If you're asking how long until it's supported, I'm not an employee of Tlon, so don't ask me. I can tell you that most of this stuff is still very slow, even if it works.

Check out the demo app, you can click a button and increment a number on the page, and it generates an event that gets reflected out (through some like AJAX) through the server, back out to as many subscribers as are currently viewing the page in their javascript-supporting browsers, happens almost instantly.

I have to apologize I have no short instructions to get you to this demo, it exists but I'm sure it may still rust more before it becomes a priority to build things based on it. I'm not sure if you're meant to be impressed by this demo, but there's also twitter API client you can use to tweet which is more obviously useful if not quite as whiz-bang.

[marknadal]

Wait, woah. Really? How? Where? Any links that will point me in a direction towards that demo app? Or even what it is named? How do I get started?

[yebyen]

Yeah, man. Fire up a pier and visit:

http://localhost:8080/geg/demo

You'll find the code in your pier/ship/main/app/demo/core.hook

To reset the counter (wipe the app state), at your command-line, do:

   :wipe %demo

I just tested it, I can see that it still works, but like I said none of this is guaranteed to go on working. It's all very alpha.

This is called a %gall app. It's always running because the %gall vane runs the main/app/ apps in the background without intervention, like radio/core.hook that runs the server for the :chat app. See you in :chat maybe, if you have questions about how this works you will certainly be welcome.