[keycloak-dev] New Account Management Console and Account REST api

[Stan Silvert]

On 3/17/2017 5:47 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> As we've discussed a few times now the plan is to do a brand new account
> management console. Instead of old school forms it will be all modern using
> HTML5, AngularJS and REST endpoints.
One thing.  That should be "Angular", not "AngularJS".    Just to 
educate everyone, here is what's going on in Angular-land:

AngularJS is the old framework we used for the admin console.
Angular is the new framework we will use for the account management console.

Most of you know the new framework as Angular2 or ng-2, but the powers 
that be want to just call it "Angular".   This framework is completely 
rewritten and really has no relation to AngularJS, except they both come 
from Google and both have "Angular" in the name.

To avoid confusion, I'm going to call it "Angualr2" for the foreseeable 
future.
>
> The JIRA for this work is:
> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-1250
>
> We where hoping to get some help from the professional UXP folks for this,
> but it looks like that may take some time. In the mean time the plan is to
> base it on the following template:
>
> https://rawgit.com/andresgalante/kc-user/master/layout-alt-fixed.html#
>
> Also, we'll try to use some newer things from PatternFly patterns to
> improve the screens.
>
> First pass will have the same functionality and behavior as the old account
> management console. Second pass will be to improve the usability (pages
> like linking, sessions and history are not very nice).
>
> We will deprecate the old FreeMarker/forms way of doing things, but keep it
> around so it doesn't break what people are already doing. This can be
> removed in the future (probably RHSSO 8.0?).
>
> We'll also need to provide full rest endpoints for the account management
> console. I'll work on that, while Stan works on the UI.
>
> As the account management console will be a pure HTML5 and JS app anyone
> can completely replace it with a theme. They can also customize it a lot.
> We'll also need to make sure it's easy to add additional pages/sections.
>
> Rather than just add to AccountService I'm going to rename that
> to DeprecatedAccountFormService remove all REST from there and add a new
> AccountService that only does REST. All features available through forms at
> the moment will be available as REST API, with the exception of account
> linking which will be done through Bills work that was introduced in 3.0
> that allows applications to initiate the account linking.
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