A flow-based component system in dart with for the development of applications following a
better data and control flow approach with a visual approach to coding. Flow Based Programming is an old paradigm
giving new life and ease to the development and deployment of ready made applications that provides the flexibility
and asynchronouse demands of todays systems. Developed by J. Paul Morrisson <www.jpaulmorrison.com>
back in the hay days of computer evolution. Though not eager adopted due to the madness for the conventions
at the time,it still has proven it self most vital and has brough new life into how we think and developed.
Other systems exists which bring this old approach back to where it should be,such as:
- NoFlo <noflojs.org> (Javascript implementation of FBP taking the world by storm)
- Goflow (Golang version of FBP)
- Microflo <http://www.jonnor.com/2013/11/microflo-0-2-0-visual-arduino-programming/>
- Component : Provides component level structure
- Port: provides a stream approach for communication between components
- Socket: The basic connection end-point between two ports
- SocketStream: The backend of Socket that provides the streaming api
- Network: a graph based system of organizing and connecting components to form a huge application,also used in components for composition
- SparkFlow: a top level class that provides a simpler api for instantiating a network and adding components
You can find a nice ,simple introduction guide into sparkflow in its wiki located at https://github.com/influx6/sparkflow.dart/wiki/SparkFlow-101
SparkFlow.dart (my fbp implementation for dartlang) http://github.com/influx6/sparkflow.dart
Flow based development api finally reach milestone one for dart and now what remains is to bring it up to shape with large sets of components and either a ui or integrate with noflo-ui. Hope the dart community joins in to bring Fbp to dart as an alternative approach to application development.
PS: Gratitude to Henry Bergius (http://bergie.iki.fi/) for the introduction to the approach while i was searching for an approach that really made sense!