[jbosstools-dev] Feedback on JBoss Tools Cordova

[Mickael Istria]

On 02/12/2014 09:44 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>> The presentation, from Sebastien Paul, was mainly showing simple 
>> usage of Cordova CLI. The demo showed many things that are available 
>> in the Cordova Eclipse plugins as well (create a project, add plugin, 
>> start ios emulator...). The only thing he didn't have in his CLI demo 
>> compared to the video is CordovaSim/Ripple.
>> He also demoed something nice: a livereload-cordova plugin ( 
>> https://github.com/fingerproof/cordova-plugin-gapreload and 
>> https://vimeo.com/81192559 ). This is interesting because it allows 
>> to configure the packaged application (the apk, ios, or whatever 
>> actual package) to use livereload to check for updates of some of its 
>> resources. So you can get livereload enabled on your actual tests 
>> devices while developing a cordova application and see updates 
>> without any need to repackage or redeploy the application. It's IMO a 
>> great productivity boost. Of course, this is something people 
>> wouldn't like to ship as part of there delivery, and is only good for 
>> development purpose. See last paragraph for more thoughts on this topic.
>
> nice - should work automagically with our live reload implementation 
> too if I grok the demo right.
Yes, but the plugin requires to configure the URL of livereload server. 
So JBoss Tools Cordova should expose a property or provide a hook to 
avoid hardcoding this property in the plugin config.
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Mickael Istria
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