Hi there, Ive submitted the idea a while ago<http://markmail.org/message/cqpy7f5wqba4emed> on the cordova ML and now that the cordova codebase is much more sane and promises-based API are on their way we can put the subject back the discussion table ;)
Basically, it would be very handy and timesaving for developers to be able to call the real devices APIs right from their dev environnement (chrome desktop for me), using a kind of "proxy". Both @gordtanner and i have prototyped something related a bit some time ago : https://github.com/gtanner/ripple-companion https://github.com/revolunet/remote-cordova Some ideas : - implement a "remote" platform in cordova that would be configurable using a custom host:post+password scheme. - relay requests/responses using socket.io or similar; maybe @substack dnode project could help here. - create basic native apps with a webview and a "runner" that just execute API calls and return responses. I'm not sure if it can be done with a custom cordova "platform" only or if this is more a ripple module. This could allow developers to dev the whole app JS code in their desktop directly. Only the UI will still need to be tested on real devices. Thoughts ? Thanks Julien Bouquillon (@revolunet)
