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

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 >

sounds reasonable to 'wait' on the promise side of things, and use that bit in the datamanager

> > while i don't really want to reinvent the wheel in terms of Ajax, it > might be interesting to take a look. > 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 > > >

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