Javascript API

[ambrosejcarr]

@ivirshup identifies value in javascript API bindings:

Javascript support for zarr has led to some nice applications for anndata's saved that way (http://vitessce.io). Serverless visualization and partial access!

[keller-mark]

+1 from Vitessce team as well. Would be fantastic if it could be demonstrated that the C++ implementation could be compiled to WebAssembly and called by JS running in a browser to access data via HTTP.

[keller-mark]

I also understand that the initial goal is to focus on the TileDB backend for the API. It would also be important to demonstrate (perhaps in the secondary draft if not the initial draft) that the initial API is flexible enough to be integrated with more than one backend, for instance with "dumber" backends like HDF5 files and Zarr stores.

[pablo-gar]

tiledb has javascript API now, it is possible to use it on SOMA objects created through tiledbsoma. Further development on this are is planned in the foreseeable future

[keller-mark]

Can you point me to the tiledb JavaScript API? I dont see JavaScript listed at https://docs.tiledb.com/main/how-to/installation/usage

[pablo-gar]

I was passing along information form others, I'm re opening and will follow up with you once I have sufficient information for you.

[pablo-gar]

TileDB-SOMA is the first implementation of SOMA. It is build atop TileDB-core c++, and it provides a Python and R API.

TileDB-Cloud has a library for NodeJS, but currently there are no proxies of TileDB-Cloud with TileDB-SOMA and therefore no support for it.

I'll leave this issue open.