Hello, Are we seriously considering totally re-writing another component?
-Hank On 4/5/19 12:09 PM, Fieck, Brennan wrote:
Some of you may have heard, but about two and a half weeks ago I opened a Pull Request to add something to the `/experimental` directory. It's basically a re-implementation of Traffic Portal, which I think is beneficial not only because Traffic Portal wasn't designed with self-service in mind, but also because it cleans up a few issues on the development side. First of all, it uses the most recent LTS version of Angular, while the one on which Traffic Portal is currently based is now deprecated (this new version can also compile projects for Electron, which would make TP distributable as a standalone/mobile app). It also uses Typescript which compiles more cleanly to an overall smaller product, and is much easier to read, write and document. Remember the SCSS compiler issues (compass) we keep having? Angular 7 comes with a compiler at project init, so we never need that as an externally-provided dependency again. Finally, it already has unit testing and end-to-end testing working in four different JS engines. I'm currently looking for a reviewer (https://github.com/apache/trafficcontrol/pull/3419) and you can read more about what's implemented there, but a short summary: * Login/authentication and API proxy * Delivery Service view with bandwidth charts * New Delivery Service creation targeted at self-service users with limited advanced editing options * User listing (read-only) * Preliminary HTTPS support (currently only listens on 'localhost') Plus, if I do say so myself, it all looks pretty snappy on every screen I could test. Feedback is also appreciated, especially concerning the "New Delivery Service" form.
