On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Russell Branca <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > The Cloudant proof of concept code is up on > https://github.com/cloudant-labs/couchdb/tree/fauxton/src/fauxton. For > now don't worry too much about the GUI (we have some wireframes in the > works to share soon), the things of interest are: > > * modular system for building GUI components, on top of backbone and > bootstrap, including the ability to load external modules. > * grunt build system, "compiles" into a database or share/www, e.g. > can be served out of localhost:5984/_utils/fauxton/index.html > * "skin-able" via less > * JSON text editor with live linting and error messages using JSHint > > Obvious things that need working on: > > * integrating with automake etc for releases > * the GUI > * developer documentation > > We'd be interested in what people think, specifically if this is a > good foundation to build futon.next on. Barring any show stoppers this > will be what we use to build the next Cloudant user dashboard, and it > would be good to involve and collaborate with the wider community as > early as possible. > > I'll be around today in the irc meeting today if anyone has any > questions or ideas. > > Cheers > > Russell & Simon
Haven't run it yet, but the structure looks pretty good. The key decisions so far seem to be: - build with grunt - backbone - require.js (yes?) - LESS And I take no issue with any of those.
