The Future of Client-Side Javascript and Elgg
By Olajide
I am very curious to how Elgg will fit into the current trend of how people are building apps with Client Side MVCs like Ember.js and AngularJS.
I've been hacking on a elgg function, that serves JSON so I can build a client side app/widget with the metadata from all the SQL tables Elgg creates and use the JSON inside my client-side javascript framework, I chose Angular, the expose_function docs are overwhelming with the current knowledge of PHP I have.
Do you feel client-side javascript will have a larger role in the future of Elgg?
- Juho Jaakkola@juho.jaakkola
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- Paweł Sroka@srokap
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You must log in to post replies.Angular has already been chosen as Elgg's future javascript framework. At the moment the plan is to introduce it in Elgg 2.0.
I really, really look forward to this. Evan is doing some great work already on this.
You could check out his github repo here
Last time I've checked, we moved decision on chooosing framework to future milestone. Looks like Angular is strong contender though.
@srokap I also though so, but I then was told that Angular has already been chosen. This happened before I was I added to the core team so I'm not sure where the final discussion/vote was done.
Does someone else from the core team know more details?
angular js is best one i am looking forward to it
@satishkumar If you've made analysis on the topic, please make summary of pros and cons of angular/ember/backbone in the ticket. We need to make more evidence based decision here than just choosing Angular just for being popular.
@Juho I don't recall any decision on the matter. Last that I remember was that we pushed decision back to make better comparison between them first. Need to release 1.9 now and than focus enough attention on this decision as it deserves.
@pawel sroka surely i will make summary and put it . i need to do more research on that
As of the last convo, Angular was the lead contender, but by default only because none of us had significant experience with anything else to make an informed decision.