> On 31 Jan 2018, at 11:02, Guillaume Delhumeau <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi developers, > > We have never really decided what we will do with javascript frameworks in > the future. Angular was a good candidate at some point, and we have even > used it in the File Manager application. But then we have been very > disappointed when we discovered the new versions of Angular were not > retro-compatible. It may have been fixed since then, but I have not really > followed the news about it. > > An other disadvantage of AngularJS is that it does too much.
Another issue is that AngularJS doesn’t exist anymore. It’s now based on Type script. > For example, > they have a custom component system with a kind of dependencies injections. > But we already can do that with RequireJS, for which it is the job. I have > already started to split my JavaScript's code in several components thanks > to RequireJS, and it works well. I think it's good to continue with > RequireJS. It is currently our go-to library when we need to use jQuery, or > even... Angular. > > I have worked a lot on a new version of the Nested Pages Migrator last > year. The new version has never been released, because of blocking bugs on > the XWiki Platform's core-side. But I now have some experience with the > library I used: KnockoutJS. > > It's a very simple library that does only one job and does it well: two-way > data-bindings. It plays well with RequireJS and it does not re-invent its > own component mechanism. The HTML code is not polluted by non-valid tags > (instead it uses "data-" properties and special HTML comments). The > documentation is extremely clear, and tutorials are great. > > It's not the most popular library out there, but it's stable and still > alive. The trends are changing so quickly in the JS world (React was the > star not so long ago, but now it is hated because of a license change...), > but Knockout is still there. If the project dies, I think it will be easier > to replace it with an other simple library than a big "framework". > > This is not a proposal or a vote, but only a feedback about this library. Thanks that’s good feedback! There are other libs out there are getting tractions (there are new ones all the times in the JS land ;)). For example vue.js looks nice too. Thanks -Vincent > You can test it there: http://knockoutjs.com/ > > Thanks, > > -- > Guillaume Delhumeau ([email protected]) > Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS > Committer on the XWiki.org project
