Add a community section

[jho406]

This adds a community section for tools built around mini_racer. I also added a link to humid, a few helpers for JavaScript server-side rendering on Rails with mini_racer that we've been using (and built) over here at thoughtbot.

[SamSaffron]

I get it and appreciate it ... but I think we need to do better than link to one tool, if you can find 5-10 interesting ones I would be open to merging.

[jho406]

Hi Sam. That's fair. Would you be open to a broad definition of "interesting tools"? i.e, tools that make use of mini_racer in interesting ways or is interesting in itself. Here's a variety that I thought might be worth highlighting:

• First, of course, discourse. The largest and most prominent of all.
• rack_mini_profiler builds their JS using mini_racer exclusively
• handlebars-ruby templating for handlebars through mini_racer.
• execjs - although you can choose a different runtime

[SamSaffron]

How about:

Community

Libraries and integrations built with MiniRacer:

• Humid — JavaScript server-side rendering helpers for Rails.
• ExecJS — A common interface for executing JavaScript from Ruby, with a MiniRacer runtime.
• Opal — A Ruby-to-JavaScript compiler with a MiniRacer CLI runner.
• Handlebars::Engine — A complete Ruby interface to Handlebars.js.
• Minibars — A lightweight Handlebars.rb replacement built on MiniRacer.
• Rtlcss — Runs rtlcss from Ruby to convert stylesheets between LTR and RTL.
• MessageFormat — Compiles MessageFormat messages from Ruby using @messageformat/core.
• feelin — Evaluates DMN FEEL expressions from Ruby.
• parse-css — Parses CSS, including nested CSS, through the JavaScript parse-css library.

Notable users

• Discourse — A large Rails application using MiniRacer for JavaScript compilation, processing, and sandboxed evaluation.
• rack-mini-profiler — Uses MiniRacer in its JavaScript build tooling.

how does that feel? feel free to update the PR

[jho406]

how does that feel?

Feels like a big community! 😄 It feels great. I'll update the PR with those suggestions.