[aerogear-dev] AeroGear.js without jQuery Discussion

[Matthias Wessendorf]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Lucas Holmquist <lholmqui at redhat.com>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.
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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
>

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


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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.
>

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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