htdp/universe JavaScript Wrapper

An experimental wrapper written for RacketScript's htdp/universe and htdp/image modules, so that they can be used in vanilla JavaScript. :)

Quick Install and Setup

Set up an environment using Vite.js

First, set up a development environment using vite.js and install the htdp-universe-js package from npm.

# Set up a JS project using Vite.js
npx create-vite@latest htdp-universe-test --template vanilla
cd htdp-universe-test
npm install

# Install htdp-universe-js package from npm
npm install htdp-universe-js

Next, paste this code into main.js in the /htdp-universe-test directory.

// Basic clicker example

import {
  bigBang,
  toDraw,
  onMouse,
  emptyScene,
  text,
  overlay
} from "htdp-universe-js";

const INIT_STATE = 0;
const FONT_SIZE = 30;
const TEXT_COLOR = "black";
const WIDTH = 1000;
const HEIGHT = 1000;

const draw = toDraw((ws) => {
  return overlay(
    text(`${ws}`, FONT_SIZE, TEXT_COLOR),
    emptyScene(WIDTH, HEIGHT, "gray"),
  );
  });

const handleMouse = onMouse((ws, xPos, yPos, eventType) => {
  if (eventType === 'button-down') {
    return ws + 1;
  } else{
    return ws;
  }
})

bigBang(INIT_STATE, draw, handleMouse);

Now run the vite dev server by pasting this command into the terminal.

# Run the vite.js dev server
npm run dev

Finally, open a browser window to http://localhost:5173 to see the example running!

Other Information

An example implementation of Snake using this library can be found here!

View the package on the npm registry