Basics | Slipway

📄️ Terminology

Before we go further we should get some basic terminology out of the way.

A Slipway Rig has two main purposes:

A Slipway Component takes an input JSON structure and produces an output JSON structure.

The Host API can be accessed from Javascript through the global slipway_host object,

If you followed the Create Your First Rig page, you will already have

Running rigs using slipway run is useful for testing,

Slipway is designed to safely execute arbitrary WASM and Javascript files written by others

Often you want to view more than one thing at a time in a single Rig.