On Monday, September 28, 2015 at 2:19:56 PM UTC-4, Justin D'Arcangelo wrote: > We have just landed the NGA rewrite of the Music app on master! This was an > extraordinary effort to recreate the Gaia Music app using the new > architecture including: > > - Separate replaceable "views" > - Back-end API exposed via bridge.js > - Virtual rendering using <gaia-fast-list> > - Web component-based UI > - Localization via l20n.js > > In addition to that, we were also able to prepare the app to take advantage > of Service Workers for the back-end when ready. You can build the app using > `NGA_SERVICE_WORKERS=1` to try out this experimental back-end. When using > Service Workers, all back-end calls via bridge.js are exposed as HTTP > services. Currently, the separate views in the app map URLs to bridge.js > method calls, which is how we are able to switch between SW and non-SW > versions of the app. > > We have also retained the old Gaia Music app (renamed "Music OGA") in the > dev_apps/music-oga folder. > > Thanks to Jim Porter, the entire metadata parser and database code were able > to be carried over from the old Music app as-is. Therefore, the incredibly > complex metadata parser remains completely covered by unit testing in the new > app. > > Also, many thanks to Hubert Figuière for patiently re-writing all of our > Marionette JS integration tests to work with a vastly different DOM structure. > > I would also like to thank Wilson Page for his work on bridge.js and the > <gaia-fast-list> component, Etienne Segonzac for his work on Fast List and > DOM Scheduler, Zbigniew Braniecki (Gandalf) for helping out with l20n.js and > Francisco Jordano for all his help with NGA overall. > > Please CC myself on any bugs you most certainly will find. If you see any > behavior in the app that seems incorrect, you can also still run the Music > OGA app for comparison to confirm. > > Thanks! \o/ > > -Justin
Woah!!! Looking forward to using the app. Will start testing it tonight on z3c. Good work guys!! _______________________________________________ dev-fxos mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos
