Sounds fantastic to me. On Feb 24, 6:38 am, Justin Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > jQuery community, > Amazing work. I can't believe how fast jQuery has developed into > the best bottom-up JS library. 1.4 looks great. But as jQuery expands > to include things like lazy loading, it might be time for a sister > project that provides important, but less commonly needed > functionality in a standard and organized way. > > Essentially, I would like to start a new branch of jQuery, akin to > jQuery UI, that provides a standard set of tools and 'classes' that > enable the development of more complex applications (by no means, does > jQuery Enterprise has to be the name, just the first thing I came up > with). > > The project COULD include: > - A 'standard' way of organizing files > - Compression > - Documentation > - Testing > - Code generators > - Scaffolding for easily connecting to services > - Command line plug-in installation and dependency management. > - A powerful class system (based off Resig's class) > > Obviously, these are all features of my project - JavaScriptMVC. But, > I am more than willing to sacrifice the name/leadership/everything for > the ability to explore these ideas with the jQuery community. > Furthermore, it seems all JavaScriptMVC users use it with jQuery > anyway! > > If you are questioning if these features are necessary, they are! > I've worked on some very large projects with hundreds of custom JS > files and multiple developers. At some point, developers need a > repeatable way of building their applications and separating > concerns. JavaScriptMVC provides that to a few lucky souls. I'd like > to help jQuery provide that to everyone. > > It will also will help keep jQuery's core small and applicable to as > many projects as possible. > > Here's my rough plan: > > 1. Get your blessing and support. Blessing being SVN access to a new > branch. Support being interest and involvement from a few > contributors. > 2. Engage top jQuery contributors and users on application development > best practices. I've slowly been interviewing some JS > luminaries:http://javascriptmvc.com/blog/?cat=36. > 3. Build it. I have already started to convert JavaScriptMVC to > depend on jQuery (it's in JMVC's trunk). With support, this will take > less than a month. > > That being said, I'm going to skip to step #2: > > jQuery community, > What would you like to see in the jQuery "Framework"? > How do you organize your applications? > What sucks about testing, compression, documentation, etc? > > I can't wait to work for you!
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