Re: [aerogear-dev] AeroGear.js without jQuery Discussion

Side note: getting integration with jQuery{ajax,promises} right was one of the pain points when integrating with AeroGear.js / Angular (uses q.js, and custom http service). We must be sure whatever we choose is compatible with frameworks out there (at least it should not hard-nut to make it work). In terms of promises implementation. In the end people may even end up using 2-3 promise approaches in one project that makes code pretty disgusting. So: +1 getting rid of jQuery.ajax +1 getting rid of jQuery promises (they are just wrong anyway ;-) Btw in terms of polyfilling, I would suggest: 1) use whatever standard *is* as long as supported by majority of mainstream browsers 2) use whatever standard *will be *and compile polyfill into aerogear.js (as long as it's not too bloated; not necessary for bower users)

Wdyt? On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Karel Piwko <kpiwko(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > Given number of supported browsers is quite low - > http://caniuse.com/promises, I > believe that polyfill will be needed even with version 2.0. > > On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:01:38 -0400 > Lucas Holmquist <lholmqui(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > > > > On Mar 24, 2014, at 11:55 AM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc(a)gmail.com&gt; > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Matthias Wessendorf < > matzew(a)apache.org&gt; > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc(a)gmail.com&gt; > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Lucas Holmquist <lholmqui(a)redhat.com&gt; > > > wrote: > > > > > > On Mar 24, 2014, at 10:10 AM, tolis emmanouilidis <tolisemm(a)gmail.com&gt; > > > wrote: > > > > > >> 2014-03-24 15:39 GMT+02:00 Matthias Wessendorf <matzew(a)apache.org&gt;: > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Lucas Holmquist <lholmqui(a)redhat.com > > > > >> wrote: > > >>> I agree that it would be nice to implement 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. > > >> > > >> 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. > > >> > > >> 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 > ). > > >> > > >> > > >> 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 > > >> > > >> Good to know. Thanks for providing this info. > > >> > > >> > > >> sounds reasonable to 'wait' on the promise side of things, and use > that > > >> bit in the datamanager > > >> > > >> +1 > > > > > > 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/ > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > not sure I see value in using a different library as a temporary thing. > > > Once the API is part of the browser platform, the need for [yet > another js > > > lib] goes away. I know but I'm more concerned about "Once the API is > part > > > of the browser platform" When will that happen and does it match with > our > > > roadmap ? Was also to offer a polyfill for older browser if we want to > keep > > > supporting them. > > > > > i will have to update the roadmap. > > > > 2.0 would be a nice time to "fully" switch, but we can start > experimenting > > now and maybe for 1.5 can have some implemenation for data manager only. > > > > Current Chrome has Promise's enable by default and it looks like FireFox > > 29( next version ) will too. Safari and IE are in dev i believe > > > > for fallback we can still make use of jQuery i think because of this > method > > here "Promise.cast", although the closest lib to the spec is RSVP( > maybe > > this could be the 2.0 fallback if we remove jQuery from the whole lib ) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> while i don't really want to reinvent the wheel in terms of Ajax, it > > >> might be interesting to take a look. > > >>http://postimg.org/image/6mbqdbvkv/ > > >> Yeah, IMO worth to look there, for reducing dependencies > > >> > > >> -M > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> 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 > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> @Lucas Thanks for making things clear > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> aerogear-dev mailing list > > >> aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > > >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Matthias Wessendorf > > >> > > >> blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ > > >> sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf > > >> twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> aerogear-dev mailing list > > >> aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > > >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> aerogear-dev mailing list > > >> aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > > >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > aerogear-dev mailing list > > > aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > > > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > aerogear-dev mailing list > > > aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > > > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Matthias Wessendorf > > > > > > blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ > > > sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf > > > twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > aerogear-dev mailing list > > > aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > > > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > aerogear-dev mailing list > > > aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > > > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > aerogear-dev mailing list > aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev >