New Home Page | Texsydo MVP (2024/10/13)

New Home Page | Texsydo Mvp (2024/10/13)

Many internal prototypes migrating to the recent MathSwe Prototypes repository are part of Texsydo Web and FX. While they still haven’t migrated to MVP, the Texsydo home page can present them so their documentation can reach production and complement esoteric technical results with their high-level products.

Initialize Texsydo app tsd.math.software

Sep 25: PR #1 merged into tsd/dev <- tsd.math.software by tobiasbriones

It follows the MathSwe Ops Templates and MSW Ops application base to provide a new web application as the home of Texsydo (Textual System Documenting) at “Tsd.Math.Software.”

Add project documentation with README.md

Sep 26: PR #2 merged into tsd/dev <- tsd/docs by tobiasbriones

It adds the root documentation of the repository and fixes minor details in existing documentation.

Add Texsydo home page with sections text, web, fx

Oct 12: PR #3 merged into tsd/dev <- tsd.math.software by tobiasbriones

It creates the TsdMathSoftware page with redacted sections about the Texsydo concept and the results of the current prototypes. This PR updates the content on the Texsydo home page according to the latest results.

Formalizing Texsydo is crucial to extracting the power of the existing prototypes and other projects, like Repsymo, that require mathematical text. Texsydo is a base for applied MSW since it provides the communication and formal documentation existing on any mathematical application.

The “Text” section is abstract and took me a good while to redact properly since it is difficult to resume a whole project that’s barely a new MVP into 5 tiny paragraphs. However, even when Texsydo is a new MVP, I’ve been defining it under the hood, as well as the other projects.

I had to iterate to move the Texsydo FX Prototypes on, so I could redact the “FX” section. I also worked together with the MathSwe Ops Templates to keep the boilerplate setup of the other React and JavaFX applications synced.

I finished migrating the graphics prototypes in TSD FX Prototype v0.2.0: Finishes Migration from Playground EP, under the hood, while working on TsdMathSoftware.

There are other tasks in this long PR:

  • Adds Texsydo icons, after design iterations in Photopea.
  • Adds new components to reuse among MathSwe React apps:
  • TerminalOutput: Models a terminal (CLI) to show brief steps after running a command (e.g., building, deploying, etc).
  • Presentation: Images carousel with MathSwe captions and zoom control (based on the one of MSW Engineer (Jekyll)).
  • InlineCode, SnippetBlock: Basic code snippets without language syntax.
  • AutoVideo: Introduces the video component to display models or animations previously rendered by Texsydo FX.

The abstract section “Text” formalizes what Texsydo is, while the “Web” and “FX” sections present the prototypes as they become MVPs available to the public. Finally, the next section, “Canvas Play,” is almost ready, allowing the web app to be deployed.

Add section canvas-play with aspect ratio support for videos

Oct 13: PR #4 merged into tsd/dev <- tsd.math.software by tobiasbriones

It updates the remaining sections according to the latest high-level results. It adds the in-article subsection to “Web” and the “Canvas Play” section to the page.

It contains support for video animations with aspect ratios 1-1 and 9-16 so they are responsive and the Canvas Play section can show those visualizations.

This PR finishes adding the content for the latest updates on Texsydo MVP and Prototypes, which makes the page available at production.

It was crucial to formally define Texsydo so I could understand the roadmap and clearly explain these technical concepts to others.

The new Texsydo web home provided components that other articles will reuse, although it still requires those from MSW Engineer. The collaboration with MathSwe Ops Templates is unifying the common code among React and JavaFX applications in MathSwe.

The section Text conceptualizes Texsydo while the others present the latest results in its prototypes for a quick iteration that complements the deeply technical challenges from previous years with a high-level presentation. Prototype sections include Web, FX, and Canvas Play, which enable the Texsydo home page to reach production.