[aerogear-dev] AeroGear.js without jQuery Discussion

[Sebastien Blanc]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Lucas Holmquist <lholmqui at redhat.com>wrote:

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> On Mar 24, 2014, at 10:10 AM, tolis emmanouilidis <tolisemm at gmail.com>
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> 2014-03-24 15:39 GMT+02:00 Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org>:
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>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Lucas Holmquist <lholmqui at redhat.com>wrote:
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>>>  I agree that it would be nice to implement AGJS-70<https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGJS-70> (Investigate
>>> removing jQuery requirement). Meanwhile, there is an open source project on
>>> GitHub that claims to offer a custom builder for jQuery in order to include
>>> only the modules needed [1] [2]. I haven't tried it yet but maybe we could
>>> create a custom jQuery build which includes only the parts currently needed
>>> in AeroGear. This would mean a smaller size of the jQuery dependency.
>>>
>>>
>>> The AG lib depends on a few parts of jQuery, the biggest being
>>> jQuery.Ajax and the promise implementation.
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>>> i know we can make custom builds of jQuery pretty easily( building from
>>> source ),  but i don't really want to bundle it within our lib.
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>>> and i don't think with bower we can do this easily. although they did
>>> just add a post install hook, so perhaps that could be something to look at.
>>>
>>> Datamanager only uses the promise implementation of jQuery( and some
>>> random thing for the filter method,  which could probably be updated ).
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>> Promises are starting to become available natively in browsers and jQuery
>>> doesn't use the Promise/A+ spec,  so it could be harder to fallback without
>>> a shim of some kind
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> Good to know. Thanks for providing this info.
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>> sounds reasonable to 'wait' on the promise side of things, and use that
>> bit in the datamanager
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> +1
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> there are other promise implementations that we could use, that are to
> spec,  such as Q and RSVP,  here is the link to the HTML5 rocks article
> http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/es6/promises/
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These last days I have been playing with the library When provided by Cujo,
it's maybe also worth looking https://github.com/cujojs/when


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>>> while i don't really want to reinvent the wheel in terms of Ajax,  it
>>> might be interesting to take a look.
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>>  Yeah, IMO worth to look there, for reducing dependencies
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>> -M
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>>>   I think in a previous ML thread about what 2.0 looked like,  that
>>> Pipeline would maybe just be a JSON only thing, with exception for multipart
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> @Lucas Thanks for making things clear
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