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

[Stian Thorgersen]

I'm going to call it "YetAnotherJsFramework" ;)

On 17 March 2017 at 12:54, Stan Silvert <ssilvert at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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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