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ajithrankayesterday at 1:17 PM1 replyview on HN

Polypad itself isn’t open source, but many of its underlying math and UI libraries are published by its creator under the Mathigon org [1]. The UI is impressive on its own, but what I find really interesting is that it’s built entirely without a traditional frontend framework. The core is a small library that's a mix of jquery-style DOM wrappers and Vue-like reactivity, templating, and web components [2].

I wish this style of building complex UIs was more common. Having some direct control over the DOM works really well for highly interactive graphics and visual tools.

[1] https://github.com/mathigon [2] https://github.com/mathigon/boost.js


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nutancyesterday at 6:07 PM

You can get very close to a working version by reverse engineering the javascript with Claude. I got a good version almost an year back. With Opus it might do a better job.