Open-source Notebook Interface for Wolfram Language

Made for scientists by scientists

Written for the freeware Wolfram Engine using JavaScript and WLX

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Recommended Wolfram Engine: 13.3 or higher

Special thanks to @KirillBelovTest (Wolfram Language HTTP Stack developer)

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Highlights

Not a typical Jupyter-like notebook environment

It supports dynamics, GUI building blocks, and powerful Mathematica syntax out of the box.

No more static graphics! Each primitive of Graphics/Graphics3D was recreated from scratch using d3.js and THREE.js libraries. Most native plotting functions of Mathematica are supported.

AI Assistant

We deeply integrated ChatGPT, so that AI can have a read/write acccess to your notebook

Command Palette and GUI-in-Code Emulation

Inline Dynamic Tool for Tuning 2D/3D Positions

Native Math Input in the Code Editor

Write beautiful equations between lines of normal Wolfram Language expressions.

Compress to HTML

An entire notebook can be exported to a standalone .html file keeping all data inside. No internet dependency, no additional software is required for viewing a notebook

Later, once opened using WLJS Notebook application, it is unpacked back to a normal editable format.

Data-Driven Slides

Make a presentation right from the notebook.

Real-Time Interactivity

Follows the mouse pointer and performs complex calculations.

Many More

Autocomplete

JavaScript Cells and Integration with WL

HTML Cells

Markdown Cells

Mermaid Diagrams

Offline documentation 🩺

WLJS Notebook runs locally and belongs to you (no cloud-based stuff involved). No internet connection is needed.

Motivation

The idea is to implement a minimalistic but easily extendable open-source notebook interface with syntax sugar, interactive objects for the freeware Wolfram Engine.

There is no aim to fully copy Mathematica (it will never be possible), however, there are a few things that can be improved:

Stability and speed
Independence from WRI
Portability (not PDF) - easy to share your work with someone outside the ecosystem keeping your graphics interactive or embedded on a website
Event-based approach to dynamics - allow users to build complex dynamic notebooks and to have clear control over all moving parts
Natural bridge between other languages - HTML as markup, WL for computations, and JS for stunning visuals

Cloud-based Quick Start

If you encounter difficulties installing Wolfram Engine locally or running this project on your machine, you can directly run it in the cloud as follows.

On this github webpage, press , to create a Codespace. After initialization, execute the following command.

# It will install the wolfram engine automatically
sudo ./engine_installer

# After the installation(it will take a while), you need to request an On-Demand License. Please refer to the specific steps at the following link: https://hub.docker.com/r/wolframresearch/wolframengine#activate-ondemand
# Finally you will get an entitlement ID
export WOLFRAMSCRIPT_ENTITLEMENTID=<Your entitlement ID>

# Then execute
wolframscript -f Scripts/start.wls host 0.0.0.0 http 8080 ws 8081 ws2 8082 docs 8085

Installation

The freeware Wolfram Engine is required (Version 13.3 is preferable).

Desktop App

Download from the releases section.

Standalone Server

Clone this repository and run:

wolframscript -f Scripts/start.wls

or on a specific hostname

wolframscript -f Scripts/start.wls host 0.0.0.0 http 8080 ws 8081 ws2 8082 docs 8085

that will open an HTTP server on 8080 port with 8081, 8082 used for realtime communication and docs pages at 8085

Package System

The frontend uses its own package/plugin system. It doesn't require any software installed except wolframscript. Precompiled plugins are downloaded using URLFetch from GitHub repositories and imported to the system.

Sponsors

@MitsuhaMiyamizu 🤍

Technology Stack

Wolfram Language, JavaScript

Inspired By

Wolfram Mathematica
Jupyter Notebook
Observable
Wolfram Language Notebook VSCode
Mathics

License

GNU GPLv3

License

chmod777john/wolfram-js-frontend

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