[aerogear-dev] JS Future Roadmap

[Matthias Wessendorf]

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Lucas Holmquist <lholmqui at redhat.com>wrote:

> I was having some thoughts on the future of AeroGear.js that i needed to
> share.
>
> <https://gist.github.com/lholmquist/391e9dbbbe4d17635e32#experimental-branch><https://gist.github.com/lholmquist/391e9dbbbe4d17635e32#experimental-branch>Experimental
> Branch
>
> I think i want to create a branch that is very experimental, that targets
> new and upcoming API's, like Object.Observe, and Promises, etc…
>
> I feel this is the only way to drive innovation
>
> I was thinking this is sort of our "Canary" branch, and when things start
> to become less pollyfilly, then we can start to move these features in.
>
> I still however want the code in this branch to be complete, not just
> random crap
>

+1 - also liking the name :-)



> <https://gist.github.com/lholmquist/391e9dbbbe4d17635e32#20><https://gist.github.com/lholmquist/391e9dbbbe4d17635e32#20>
> 2.0
>
> I would like to see that in 2.0 we start to remove our jQuery requirement,
> and focus more on Modern Browsers and have our 1.X branch be our less than
> modern browser( IE9 ) supported branch. much like how jQuery has a 1.X and
> 2.X branch, obviously the difference between our branches won't be as
> extreme.
>
> The major thing we use jQuery for atm is jQuery.ajax and Promises. this is
> nice for cross broswer compatibility and for transpoting other things other
> than json, which brings me to my next point
>
> I would also like in 2.0 to make our library( pipeline ) only speak json.
> I think this will make it really simple to have our own AeroGear.Ajax()
> method and be able to keep it small in size
>


+1; like the idea; for our iOS 2.x bits I'd imagine we do similar: iOS7/8
only and using AFN 2.x



> <https://gist.github.com/lholmquist/391e9dbbbe4d17635e32#1x-branch><https://gist.github.com/lholmquist/391e9dbbbe4d17635e32#1x-branch>1.X
> Branch
>
> Once we hit all our 1.X milestones( sync, offline ) then what is the
> current master branch would become a 1.X branch, and we recieve bug fixes,
> but no new features. If something in the future could be back ported, then
> maybe, but it wouldn't be a priority
>
> This branch would still have a jQuery requirement and would be for legacy
> stuff( IE9 )
>

makes perfectly sense!

Great ideas!

-Matthias



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