[blog post] MyST JS and specification progress

[choldgraf]

Over the last year there has been a lot of new development in the myst side of the executable books project. In particular, we have a JavaScript implementation of the MyST parser, and work from the curvenote team to bring in their document engine into MyST JS. That's a current WIP, hosted at js.myst.tools.

We should write a blog post that describes our plans to explore JavaScript implementations of the MyST parser/document system, integrations with Jupyter, the specification to standardize syntax between implementations, and moving this as a parallel effort alongside the Python stack.

Related issues

• Major upcoming functionality for mystjs #838
• Set up myst.tools via mystjs #793
• Write out a strategy / vision for MyST markdown #538
• Define a MyST markdown syntax standard + process #118

[rowanc1]

There is also a draft of a blog post here:

• Initial draft of myst-spec and Javascript announcements. #723

I think parts of it (e.g. the overview) are pretty good, some of the details would need to be updated. Perhaps there is some content in there that you can pull from, and can follow this up soon with some more details!

[stevejpurves]

This issue can now be closed? as it relates to this post https://executablebooks.org/en/latest/blog/2023/announce-mystjs/ ?

[choldgraf]

Yes! Good catch.

• Closed by Blog post: Announcing MyST-JS #936