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A full stack Node.js web framework built using Coffeescript

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Chocolate.js Tour ----------------- ### Preamble First of all I was an Apple II programer : back in 1984 I wrote the first [Tennis Simulation](http://www.virtualapple.org/tennischampionshipdisk.html) on that computer. Back in 1998, when I was programming version 2 of my [French Bible CDROM](http://www.cdweb.com/ltqc/Products/BJ3/Demo/Demo0001.htm), I decided that Visual Studio was not intentional enough. I wanted it to remember what I had in mind when I was writing this or that function... So that making my C++ source code evolve would be a pleasure. At the end of that year, I started to work at Microsoft France and discovered an internal research project call [Intentional Programing](http://www.intentsoft.com). I found that we had many ideas in common. But it was not possible for me to integrate that team. My journey to intentional computing started... I created the Intentware project and web site in january 2001 and started build and rebuild prototypes. Few years later, in 2006, I wrote : Imagine a scenario where everyone can publish services it offers and subscribes to those it needs. Imagine a tool which makes it possible to learn by experimentation. A tool which makes it possible to manage intentions and projects and to describe and program web services easily. Crawling the Internet again and again I did not find what I was looking for. However, I saw a slow movement toward my vision. I also found that some of my goals where : - I want to have an immediate computing environment where, like in Excel, there is no time between intention and realization. - I want to have to know only one programming language that I can use to program on servers, clients, database, user interface... My journey continued... In 2007, I wrote Ijax, a javascript framework based on Mootools, where I experimented some of my ideas: declarative user interface contexts. I used it in few web sites: [http://sefarim.fr]() and [http://sefarim.fr/hamore]() In 2011, after an exploration in the Python world, I decided to give javascript a last chance... And... I discovered Coffeescript (and then CoffeeKup). It was what I was looking for: only one programming language for every aspect of my programer's life, and a nice balance between functional and imperative programming. Intenware project could resurrect! So I started to build Intentware using Node.js and Coffeescript. I quickly needed an online web development environment, so I created one. In 2012, Jeremy Ashkenas twitted about an astonishing video: Bret Victor's Inventing On Principle... Finaly I found someone with ideas close to mine. I decided to integrate the Immediate principle in my work and also one of its demos in my development environment. I decided to integrate all those tools in one interface and I started to make interesting progress. So much that I want to share it. I called my web development environment **Chocolate.js**. Why? #### Because I don't drink coffee!