/tags/general/index.html Hugo en-us /overview/basics/index.html Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /overview/basics/index.html /goblins/build/createandconverticon/index.html Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /goblins/build/createandconverticon/index.html We reccommend you to use a professional vector drawing software to create your icon like Inkscape (open source) or Adobe Illustrator. Create a new document with a size of 512x512 pixels and unleash your creativity :) Libraries to convert your icon We are going to use some linux libraries to transform and convert our icon from png to the good extensions allowed by the goblin builder. We have to generate 3 types of icon for all platforms : /goblins/concept/atyourservice/index.html Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /goblins/concept/atyourservice/index.html For building the application you dreamed, you will ask yourself some right questions: my app will run for a single user in his device ? my app will run for a myriad of users, on a server ? In all case, the crucial point is, my app is in all case a server hosting some “little know” services, aka goblins! Don’t worry, if you choose xcraft and goblins for your next app, you can fit a lot of deployment configuration and topology. /overview/glossary/index.html Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /overview/glossary/index.html Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else. – Mark Twain Word Definition Axon The Message-oriented socket library inspired by zeromq which is used for communicating between processes bus Channel for sending/receiving commands and events (there are two buses and it can be in-process or multi-processes) Goblin An Xcraft module based on the Goblin layer orcName Bus client identifier when connecting to an Xcraft server quest Async action (for side effect) dispatched with Redux (based on the Goblin layer, it’s triggered by a generated Xcraft command handler) Redux A Predictable State Container for JS Apps (the base of the Goblin layer) watt A Powerful control flow using generators (an other name is gigawatts because the project is forked); it’s like async / await Xcraft Main infrastructure and toolchain