On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Matt Franklin <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Noe-Payne, Erin A. <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I wanted to propose adding underscore.js (http://underscorejs.org/) as > a dependency for rave javascript. > > > > This is a small (4kb) utility belt library for javascript that adds a > number of convenience functions without modifying object prototypes. The > main advantages would be 1) more succinct code 2) better performance by > taking advantage of ecmascript 5 functions like Object.each, .map, .keys, > etc when available. > > > > Are there any objections to adding underscore as a dependency and > relying on it for new features going forward / refactoring older js to take > advantage of it? > It looks like in RAVE-886 [1] we are adding handlebars support and now underscorejs. Are there any frameworks that provide all the capabilities we think we might need like EmberJS or AngularJS? Do we have a master list of all the javascript libraries we use already? [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAVE-886 > > If it is the only dependency of rave.js and it provides a lot of > convenience functions that we would have to write, I am +0 > > > > > Erin >
