Your syntax nightmares are over.
Feel free to install and try Wat out. Wanted are suggestions on how to make Wat even more ridiculously easy to use and insanely helpful. All document contributions are welcome as well!
- Search commands implemented.
- Preference commands implemented (syntax highlighting flavor, etc.).
- Import / Export preference commands.
- Raw command-line auto-completion implemented.
- Change temp directory for all persistent local storage and configurations.
- Finish readme / editing guidelines.
- At least 20 complete libraries or languages documented.
- Tests.
- XO linting.
- Suggestions? Wat is for you, and must be uncomprimisingly amazing.
Babel transpiling.Pass args into initial app call (i.e. make$ wat js array splicestart up the application and return the results.)Graceful exiting with CONTROL + C.
Finally, community-built cheat sheets for every coder, in every language and major framework. At the tip of your fingers.
Wat is an interactive app built to drastically reduce time spent searching for syntax and code usage questions. If you forgot how to write a CSS transition, simply type css transition. Wat finds what you want, providing exactly and only what you need: a basic description and usage samples.
Wat provides the only centralized source of syntax cheat sheets for every language and every major framework and library. If it has an API and is used by the community, it's supported here; be it jQuery, Go, React, Dragula or Rails.
Wat combines a document index, edit-distance algorithms, tabbed auto-completion and common sense to make sure you get what you asked for. It auto-updates when the community adds content, and optimizes its performance based on the content you use most.
Wat's content is not perfect, it isn't formal and it isn't pedantic. Wat doesn't aim to provide letter-perfect, offical documentation for languages. Work like that is in good hands.
If you're building a web browser, refer to W3C for specifications. Wat is targeted for the 99.99% of us who have the basic familiarity with a Library and simply need to look up API or usage samples.
Wat was designed for ease. It takes you:
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Because wat is forgetting the syntax to splice an Array for the 10th time.
Because wat is having to search js splice an array, sift through W3Schools and MSDN results, Command + Click three Stack Overflow tabs, close the first one, digest the second and then scroll to the answer to remember... again.
Because I would rather just type:
wat js array splice
Necessity is the mother of invention, and I needed this.
Don't worry, it's really not a problem:
You're using a web browser, right? Web browsers interpret Javascript. You don't have to write JS to use a web browser. Node similarly interprets JS everywhere else. NPM is the package manager for Javascript.
Installation is easy and you really should do it: There's hundreds of incredible apps you'll be take advantage of without having to write a single line of Javascript.
Node installation links:
When done, open a terminal and type:
npm install --global watThis automatically installs a software package from npmjs.com and makes the command wat recognized globally by your computer, so you just simply enter wat anywhere in your terminal. Easy, right? And you're still a proud [insert language here...] programmer.
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