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Erin Noe-Payne commented on RAVE-941:
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Yeah good question. I've updated the description to have some more specific
info about my vision - so all please give input.
Basically the Backbone / Handlebars effort was my thought process for updating
the portal before our apachecon meetup. Now we've gone down the road of
specifically isolating the rave core and writing better rest apis, and treating
the rave portal as a reference implementation on top of core. In this scenario
I see angular as a much better fit.
If we go the route of using angular I will end up backing out backbone and
handlebars and pass control of all state management & client side templating
over to angular.
In terms of branching, I can go either way. As an angular app it is only
looking to serve html, so we can easily build out the angular app along a
different set of url paths than the current portal much as we are doing with
the rest apis. It may be weird to deliver that incomplete content as part of
the trunk though.
> Refactor rave portal as an angularjs web application
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>
> Key: RAVE-941
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAVE-941
> Project: Rave
> Issue Type: Epic
> Reporter: Erin Noe-Payne
> Assignee: Erin Noe-Payne
> Fix For: 0.22
>
> Original Estimate: 1m
> Remaining Estimate: 1m
>
> With RAVE-914 we now have the rave core functionality isolated from the
> portal. This allows us to refactor the portal application and write it as a
> reference implementation on top of the rave core with the following goals:
> - Support generic data contexts for pages - portal, profile, portfolio or
> whatever else. No more hard coded portal page vs profile page.
> - Allow implementers to extend the portal application with less reliance on
> overlays.
> - Move away from jsps or other heavy-lifting view rendering logic from the
> server.
> I'm proposing to use angularjs (http://angularjs.org/) as a client side mvc
> framework. This would be in place of previous efforts to implement the portal
> using backbonejs and handlebars. Basic roadmap:
> - Move away from jsp's, either moving to a lighter-weight rendering framework
> or consider serving only raw html with no rendering framework on the server
> at all.
> - Rewrite / update portal's views as angularjs compatible markup.
> - Write the portal js as an angularjs application that interacts with the
> rave core.
> - Use the new rest apis to serve data for client side navigation and partial
> view loads.
> - Allow implementers to extend rave portaljs for custom functionality without
> overlaying, allow them to add views for new custom contexts without requiring
> overlays.
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