[jbosstools-dev] Feedback on JBoss Tools Cordova

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

> 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.

> Feedback on JBoss Tools Cordova was quite positive. However, no-one 
> did even know such tools were existing. Some Cordova users are not at 
> all aware of what is JBoss and never started an Eclipse, although 
> they'd be glad to use it for Cordova development as shown in the 
> video. Some said they'll show the demo to some colleagues who are used 
> to do Android development, and that they're pretty sure they'll start 
> using Cordova Tools today.
> From this, we can deduce that:
> 1. Our tools really matches the current needs of users, and that's 
> great
> 2. Those same tools are unknow to most of potential users. In order to 
> become famous, it appears we need to communicate about it in 
> Cordova/Phonegap specific channels (mailing-list, get retweeted by 
> @apachecordova and @phonegap ).

Good feedback and I agree - more blogs, more pushes needed.

> Related to the concept of having plugins in a dev-mode, we discussed 
> the idea of "profiles", similar to what Maven does, which would allow 
> to package application in different flavours: Use this plugin in 
> dev-mode with this set of properties (for example pointing to local IP 
> address), whereas production should not ship this plugin and use the 
> production URL... This would be an interesting feature.

Yeah everyone needs to reinvent every build tool every 4-5 years ;)

thanks for the writeup!

/max
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