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

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Lucas Holmquist <lholmqui(a)redhat.com&gt;wrote: > > On Mar 24, 2014, at 11:12 AM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc(a)gmail.com&gt; > wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Lucas Holmquist <lholmqui(a)redhat.com&gt;wrote: > >> 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. >> >> 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 >> >> >> 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 >> > > Do you mean here relying on a "lighter" Ajax lib or just refactoring it > using plain old XmlHttpRequest ? > > > we would have an internal AeroGear.Ajax( or something like that ) as our > "lighter" ajax lib that used plain xmlhttprequests > +1 on XHR usage - no other framework

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