| daniel added a comment. |
@Krinkle said:
Rather, it starts out on the assumption that we're going to have UI code in production (based on Vue.js) written in a way that contains too much business logic in its templating code.
That is correct: the Wikidata team made the determination that they want to use vue.js for the frontend. The idea is to use a standard framework that allows rich interactions, and to use the same code base for user interaction on the client, and for rendering the initial static view. This is opposed to the current situation, where the static rendering is done inn PHP, and interaction is implemented in JS, with static templates shared between both mechanisms. This has proven extremely cumbersome and inflexible, this was alreaddy a problem when I was still the tech lead of the wikidata team. Using vue.js with some sort of server side execution mechanism has been proposed an discussed by the Wikidata team for about two or three years, at hackathons and summits. We have also discussed it at TechCom, though not as an RFC I think. In essence, they were always told to go ahead. Going back on that now doesn't seem right not me, and I don't see a viable alternative (other then React perhaps, which would pose the exact same problem).
I agree that it would be good to have the motivation for using vue.js documented, along with the alternatives considered and trade-offs evaluated. But this does not come out of the blue. This has been in the pipeline for years, and every effort was made to communicate with various WMF teams about this effort.
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