On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:09 PM, nu...@wso2.com <nu...@wso2.com> wrote:
> Hi Devs, > > Since there are at least one person in each team, writing a gadget, > specific to their product dashboard, I believe knowing "gadget authoring > best practices" are quite important. There are few key points that we should > understand when writing gadgets. > > 1. Gadgets are not like jsps or any other server side script, Its > purely on JavaScript and they are browser dependent. > 2. Limit the number of network calls you do within a gadget > (gadgets.io.makeRequest). Ideally limit it to one request to fetch the > dataset for presentation. (Do not perform orchestration within a gadget, > IMO > gadget is not the right place to do that) > > Using a FE component is the right way to do this right? > > 1. > 2. Keep your complex processing away from the gadget as much as > possible. > 3. If you are importing js libraries make sure to minify them. > > Also please do read [1] guide on gadget best practices published by Google. > Importantly read the section on *"Use API Calls"*. > > Since our dashboards are getting populated more and more with gadgets, I > believe we will have to practice these steps as much as possible, to > minimize rendering latency. > > [1] http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=81678 > > -- > Thanks & Regards, > > Nuwan Bandara > WSO2 Inc. | http://wso2.com > lean . enterprise . middleware > > http://www.nuwanbando.com > > <http://www.nuwanbando.com/> > > _______________________________________________ > Carbon-dev mailing list > Carbon-dev@wso2.org > https://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/carbon-dev > > -- Regards, Tharindu Mathew Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc., http://wso2.com
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