Web development with Tau Prolog

Abstract

Tau Prolog is a client-side Prolog interpreter fully implemented in JavaScript, which aims at implementing ISO Prolog Standard. Tau Prolog has been developed to be used with either Node.js or a browser seamlessly, and therefore, it has been developed following a non-blocking, callback-based approach to avoid blocking web browsers. Taking the best from JavaScript and Prolog, Tau Prolog allows the programmer to handle browser events and manipulate the Document Object Model (DOM) of a web using Prolog predicates. In this paper we describe the main packages of Tau Prolog for interacting with the Web, and we present its programming environment.