I've been using React.js recently and I am very happy with it. It plays well with other scripts and it makes it really easy to plug and play pieces of your UI without having to rewrite the whole thing.
+1 -- Wayne Witzel III [email protected] On Fri, May 8, 2015, at 07:04 AM, Igor Bondarenko wrote: > Hey guys! > > Every time I'm working on some small js/ajax piece of UI for Allura I'm > thinking > that I'm creating something fragile which can break apart in any moment > without > me even noticing. That's mainly because of direct DOM manipulation. The > latest > example of this is https://forge-allura.apache.org/p/allura/tickets/7866/ > where > I needed to check a state of background task and display status to the > user > and > enable/disable different pieces of UI depending on task result (this > pattern > actually can be found in a few places in Allura). Every time I write > something > like this > https://forge-allura.apache.org/p/allura/git/ci/master/tree/Allura/allura/templates/repo/merge_request.html#l218 > I feel like I'm stepping on a landmine :) > > Does it happen to any of you? :) > > The reason I bring this up now is that I'm starting work on phone > verification > UI (#7868) and I expect some of js/ajax shenanigans there as well. I > would > like > to try a different approach for dealing with the DOM, but since it > requires > to > pull a new technology into our stack I can't do it before discussing it > with > you. > > There's a library that removes this pain. It's React.js. I have some > experience > using it and it's just a breeze for tasks like that. It is built in a way > that > allows to use it only for a small piece of a page, exactly where you need > it, so > there's no need to worry about rewriting existing code to support it and > it > can > be included only on a pages that need it. It's pretty small, latest > compressed > version is 129K. For example our jquery-base, which we include on every > page is > twice that size (332K). It's BSD licensed. > > I don't think our current situation is *that* bad, but on the other hand > it > can > restrain us from trying to build more complex things, UI wise. In my > opinion it > worth to try React in Allura, starting with such small problems as I > described. > In my case, I'm sure it will give me more confidence, that UI pieces I > build > work as expected. > > What do you think?
