https://github.com/ggiuffre/timelangs
A customizable timeline about the history of programming languages
https://github.com/ggiuffre/timelangs
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A customizable timeline about the history of programming languages
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/ggiuffre/timelangs
- Owner: ggiuffre
- License: mit
- Created: 2020-08-30T18:54:26.000Z (over 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2021-11-15T16:39:27.000Z (about 4 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-19T21:23:38.263Z (about 1 year ago)
- Topics: history, programming-language, timeline
- Language: TypeScript
- Homepage: https://ggiuffre.github.io/timelangs
- Size: 3.17 MB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# timelangs
A customizable timeline about the history of programming languages,
served as a static single-page web application.
## User manual
Go to [ggiuffre.github.io/timelangs](https://ggiuffre.github.io/timelangs)
and choose a topic you're insterested in. Once you've entered a topic in the
search box and hit "Submit", you'll see a list of languages related to that
topic -- in chronological order, so that you can have an idea of which
languages pioneered a certain functionality/paradigm.
Each programming language is displayed together with its **birth year** and a
list of **related topics**. Click on a topic to see which languages are
involved with it.
Tip: you can hit submit even without entering any topic in the search box.
This will display all programming languages currently available on the app.
Further tip: once you've looked up a specific topic, you can **share a link**
to it by just copying the URL in your browser. The URL updates automatically
each time you hit "Submit"!
## Developer manual
This is a simple React app with only four components:
* an `App` component that renders a search box and a timeline;
* a `FilterForm` component (the search box);
* a `Timeline` component (the timeline) that renders several programming
languages;
* a `TimelineItem` component (a programming language), that renders the name
and birth year of a language, together with a list of topics that can be
associated to this language.
Currently the app is static (doesn't make any network requests).
Test the app with `yarn test`, run it locally with `yarn start`, or try live
at [ggiuffre.github.io/timelangs](https://ggiuffre.github.io/timelangs).