[aerogear-dev] AeroGear.js without jQuery Discussion

[Matthias Wessendorf]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Lucas Holmquist <lholmqui at redhat.com>wrote:

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> On Mar 24, 2014, at 11:12 AM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc at gmail.com> wrote:
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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.
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>> 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.
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>> Datamanager only uses the promise implementation of jQuery( and some
>> random thing for the filter method,  which could probably be updated ).
>>  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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>> while i don't really want to reinvent the wheel in terms of Ajax,  it
>> might be interesting to take a look.  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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> Do you mean here relying on a "lighter" Ajax lib or just refactoring it
> using plain old XmlHttpRequest ?
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> we would have an internal AeroGear.Ajax( or something like that ) as our
> "lighter" ajax lib that used plain xmlhttprequests
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+1 on XHR usage - no other framework


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