Route all rendering through OCaml bridge — render_to_html no longer uses
Python async_eval. Fix register_components to parse &key params and &rest
children from defcomp forms. Remove all dead sx_ref.py imports.
Epoch protocol (prevents pipe desync):
- Every command prefixed with (epoch N), all responses tagged with epoch
- Both sides discard stale-epoch messages — desync structurally impossible
- OCaml main loop discards stale io-responses between commands
Consolidate scope primitives into sx_scope.ml:
- Single source of truth for scope-push!/pop!/peek, collect!/collected,
emit!/emitted, context, and 12 other scope operations
- Removes duplicate registrations from sx_server.ml (including bugs where
scope-emit! and clear-collected! were registered twice with different impls)
- Bind scope prims into env so JIT VM finds them via OP_GLOBAL_GET
JIT VM fixes:
- Trampoline thunks before passing args to CALL_PRIM
- as_list resolves thunks via _sx_trampoline_fn
- len handles all value types (Bool, Number, RawHTML, SxExpr, Spread, etc.)
Other fixes:
- ~cssx/tw signature: (tokens) → (&key tokens) to match callers
- Minimal Python evaluator in html.py for sync sx() Jinja function
- Python scope primitive stubs (thread-local) for non-OCaml paths
- Reader macro resolution via OcamlSync instead of sx_ref.py
Tests: 1114 OCaml, 1078 JS, 35 Python regression, 6/6 Playwright SSR
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Removes the 5993-line bootstrapped Python evaluator (sx_ref.py) and all
code that depended on it exclusively. Both bootstrappers (JS + OCaml)
now use a new synchronous OCaml bridge (ocaml_sync.py) to run the
transpiler. JS build produces identical output; OCaml bootstrap produces
byte-identical sx_ref.ml.
Key changes:
- New shared/sx/ocaml_sync.py: sync subprocess bridge to sx_server.exe
- hosts/javascript/bootstrap.py: serialize defines → temp file → OCaml eval
- hosts/ocaml/bootstrap.py: same pattern for OCaml transpiler
- shared/sx/{html,async_eval,resolver,jinja_bridge,handlers,pages,deps,helpers}:
stub or remove sx_ref imports; runtime uses OCaml bridge (SX_USE_OCAML=1)
- sx/sxc/pages: parse defpage/defhandler from AST instead of Python eval
- hosts/ocaml/lib/sx_primitives.ml: append handles non-list 2nd arg per spec
- Deleted: sx_ref.py, async_eval_ref.py, 6 Python test runners, misc ref/ files
Test results: JS 1078/1078, OCaml 1114/1114.
sx_docs SSR has pre-existing rendering issues to investigate separately.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Moved flash-sale, settle-data, search-products/events/posts, and catalog
endpoints from bp/pages/routes.py into sx/sx/handlers/reactive-api.sx.
routes.py now contains only the SSE endpoint (async generators need Python).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Major architectural change: page function dispatch and handler execution
now go through the OCaml kernel instead of the Python bootstrapped evaluator.
OCaml integration:
- Page dispatch: bridge.eval() evaluates SX URL expressions (geography, marshes, etc.)
- Handler aser: bridge.aser() serializes handler responses as SX wire format
- _ensure_components loads all .sx files into OCaml kernel (spec, web adapter, handlers)
- defhandler/defpage registered as no-op special forms so handler files load
- helper IO primitive dispatches to Python page helpers + IO handlers
- ok-raw response format for SX wire format (no double-escaping)
- Natural list serialization in eval (no (list ...) wrapper)
- Clean pipe: _read_until_ok always sends io-response on error
SX adapter (aser):
- scope-emit!/scope-peek aliases to avoid CEK special form conflict
- aser-fragment/aser-call: strings starting with "(" pass through unserialized
- Registered cond-scheme?, is-else-clause?, primitive?, get-primitive in kernel
- random-int, parse-int as kernel primitives; json-encode, into via IO bridge
Handler migration:
- All IO calls converted to (helper "name" args...) pattern
- request-arg, request-form, state-get, state-set!, now, component-source etc.
- Fixed bare (effect ...) in island bodies leaking disposer functions as text
- Fixed lower-case → lower, ~search-results → ~examples/search-results
Reactive islands:
- sx-hydrate-islands called after client-side navigation swap
- force-dispose-islands-in for outerHTML swaps (clears hydration markers)
- clear-processed! platform primitive for re-hydration
Content restructuring:
- Design, event bridge, named stores, phase 2 consolidated into reactive overview
- Marshes split into overview + 5 example sub-pages
- Nav links use sx-get/sx-target for client-side navigation
Playwright test suite (sx/tests/test_demos.py):
- 83 tests covering hypermedia demos, reactive islands, marshes, spec explorer
- Server-side rendering, handler interactions, island hydration, navigation
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every URL at sx-web.org now uses bracketed SX expressions — pages AND
API endpoints. defhandler :path values, sx-get/sx-post/sx-delete attrs,
code examples, and Python route decorators all converted.
- Add SxAtomConverter to handlers.py for parameter matching inside
expression URLs (e.g. /(api.(item.<sx:item_id>)))
- Convert ~50 defhandler :path values in ref-api.sx and examples.sx
- Convert ~90 sx-get/sx-post/sx-delete URLs in reference.sx, examples.sx
- Convert ~30 code example URLs in examples-content.sx
- Convert ~30 API URLs in pages.py (Python string code examples)
- Convert ~70 page navigation URLs in pages.py
- Convert 7 Python route decorators in routes.py
- Convert ~10 reactive API URLs in marshes.sx
- Add API redirect patterns to sx_router.py (301 for old paths)
- Remove /api/ skip in app.py redirects (old API paths now redirect)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
component-source and handler-source are page helpers, not IO primitives.
They need to be in the handler evaluation env just like defpage evaluation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add 14 new IO primitives to boundary.sx: web interop (request-form,
request-json, request-header, request-content-type, request-args-all,
request-form-all, request-headers-all, request-file-name), response
manipulation (set-response-header, set-response-status), ephemeral
state (state-get, state-set!), and timing (now, sleep).
All 19 reference handlers now have :returns type annotations using
types.sx vocabulary. Response meta (headers/status) flows through
context vars, applied by register_route_handlers after execution.
Only SSE endpoint remains in Python (async generator paradigm).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
EvalError moved to types.py. All 27 files updated to import eval_expr,
trampoline, call_lambda, etc. directly from shared.sx.ref.sx_ref instead
of through the evaluator.py indirection layer. 320/320 spec tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
jinja_bridge, helpers, handlers, query_executor now conditionally
import from ref/sx_ref and ref/async_eval_ref when SX_USE_REF=1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
SxExpr is now a str subclass so it works everywhere a plain string
does (join, isinstance, f-strings) while serialize() still emits it
unquoted. sx_call() and all internal render functions (_render_to_sx,
async_eval_to_sx, etc.) return SxExpr, eliminating the "forgot to
wrap" bug class that caused the sx_content leak and list serialization
bugs.
- Phase 0: SxExpr(str) with .source property, __add__/__radd__
- Phase 1: sx_call returns SxExpr (drop-in, all 200+ sites unchanged)
- Phase 2: async_eval_to_sx, async_eval_slot_to_sx, _render_to_sx,
mobile_menu_sx return SxExpr; remove isinstance(str) workaround
- Phase 3: Remove ~150 redundant SxExpr() wrappings across 45 files
- Phase 4: serialize() docstring, handler return docs, ;; returns: sx
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Evaluator: add _Thunk + _trampoline for tail-call optimization in
lambdas, components, if/when/cond/case/let/begin. All callers in
html.py, resolver.py, handlers.py, pages.py, jinja_bridge.py, and
query_registry.py unwrap thunks at non-tail positions.
SX docs: update tagline to "s-expressions for the web", rewrite intro
to reflect that SX replaces most JavaScript need, fix "What sx is not"
to acknowledge macros and TCO exist.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fragment read API is now fully declarative — every handler is a defhandler
s-expression dispatched through one shared auto_mount_fragment_handlers()
function. Replaces 8 near-identical blueprint files (~35 lines each) with
a single function call per service. Events Python handlers (container-cards,
account-page) extracted to a standalone module.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
execute_handler was using async_render() which renders all the way to
HTML. Fragment providers need to return sx source (s-expression strings)
that consuming apps parse and render client-side.
Added async_eval_to_sx() — a new execution mode that evaluates I/O
primitives and control flow but serializes component/tag calls as sx
source instead of rendering them to HTML. This mirrors how the old
Python handlers used sx_call() to build sx strings.
Also fixed: _ASER_FORMS checked after HTML_TAGS, causing "map" (which
is both an HTML tag and an sx special form) to be serialized as a tag
instead of evaluated. Moved _ASER_FORMS check before HTML_TAGS.
Also fixed: empty? primitive now handles non-len()-able types gracefully.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
