Blog post: Announcing MyST-JS

[choldgraf]

This is a blog post announcing MyST as a standalone project from Jupyter Book, as well as announcing the recent MyST-JS efforts that @rowanc1 @ co have been leading. Its goal is to highlight major aspects of the work we've been doing over the past few months, and give an idea of how these projects will continue to evolve moving forward.

It touches on some of the discussions in https://github.com/executablebooks/meta/issues/838 as well as #493 , though not sure it closes either of them. I'll leave it to @rowanc1 to decide when #838 can be closed.

Please provide feedback and suggestions on the content! (cc in particular @rowanc1 since Curvenote is mentioned in this post, as well as @gregcaporaso and @jstac who have been involved in setting up the collaboration over the past several months).

To do

• [x] Make js.myst-tools.org work - some of the shortcuts are still here (js.myst.tools needs to be js.myst-tools.org).
• [x] Any more calls to action or social media-style links?
  • Social handle (@myst_tools)
  • Mailing list (updates.myst-tools.org)

Other things that are changed

I took the opportunity to make a few other updates to our blog:

• We now use dirhtml
• The root is now blog instead of updates
• I made a few updates to our tools page to reflect new tools and links.

This will break old links to our blog, but it was non-trivial to redirect if we use dirhtml now. However I figured that because we haven't had many posts historically, it wouldn't be a huge problem if we had a one-time break. Let me know if anybody strongly opposes that though.

[fperez]

Thx @choldgraf!! I have no further edits at this point.

[jstac]

Great job @choldgraf . It reads very well. I gave it another pass through and found no typos.

[choldgraf]

OK I fixed a few links and also added links to the two marquee projects on our landing page. Will merge this one now and send out a tweet about it - @rowanc1 cc in case you wanna tweet via @myst-tools as well.

[choldgraf]

Post is live! Here's a tweet about it:

https://twitter.com/choldgraf/status/1625170491639054340

link to the post:

https://executablebooks.org/en/latest/blog/2023/announce-mystjs/

please share any messages that you'd like others to signal-boost!

[fperez]

Done! Great job @choldgraf & team, so happy to see this grow!

[rowanc1]

🚀 Another thread summarizing the post is here, and retweeted from the @myst_tools account: https://twitter.com/ExecutableBooks/status/1625189557460414464

Thanks @choldgraf & team, excited about this. :)