I agree with you. It's always welcomed, a better and easy tool for new user. It's very important to develop our community. I'm not expert in javascript/node, but I think a simple and lightweight tool is much suitable for us, as weex is still young and hunger to develop our users.
Tiago, we shall start planing that if on one is against it. After the new tool hit some milestone, we could discuss to integrate to weex-toolkit or just replace it. On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:36 PM, Tiago Alves <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Jerry, > > Yes, I checked the weexpack-android project. I noticed it is very similar > to > cordova-android <https://github.com/apache/cordova-android>. If fact, most > of the weexpack libs (weexpack-create, weexpack-common, weexpack-lib, > weexpack-iOS) are a trimmed version of the cordova-cli. > > My question in the last email was: have you ever considered building > something from scratch? The current project is very complex IMHO, more than > it should be. It is hard to follow and debug. It does lots of things that > makes sense in cordova but not in Weex, and at the same time doesn't do > everything it should do. Also, the code feels a bit outdated. I don't > know... it just feels a bit hacky... > > Please don't read this as a critique of the current work. I think it was a > genius idea to use cordova cli as a starting point. I just want to know if > you want to continue with this path, or if it is a good time to start a new > cli. I will contribute whatever the answer is, I just want to make the most > useful contribution in the long run. > > Thanks > Tiago > > On Tue, 13 Jun 2017 at 01:48 jerry.s <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi,Tiago: > > > > I think it is good thing if we have scaffold. we have finished some > > one for develop https://github.com/weexteam/generator-weex-plugin < > > https://github.com/weexteam/generator-weex-plugin> > > one for common user with weex > > https://github.com/weexteam/weexpack-android < > > https://github.com/weexteam/weexpack-android> doc > > https://weex.apache.org/guide/tools/toolkit.html < > > https://weex.apache.org/guide/tools/toolkit.html> > > These projects are open source . we are perfecting it , you can join us > > We can discuss it together:-) > > > > Best Regards > > Jerry > > > > > 在 2017年6月12日，下午8:55，Tiago Alves <[email protected]> 写道： > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > I have noticed that many people drive away from weex because there is > > still > > > no clear, fully-working path to create a Weex project from scratch. > > > > > > I took a shot at contributing to that part some weeks ago but had to > stop > > > due to lack of time (or skill? :P). > > > > > > This is what I know: > > > > > > - Weex-toolkit (weex's cli) is, in a big part, a copy of the > > cordova-cli > > > implementation; > > > - Weex-toolkit platform add commands just copies a template to the > > > project, and does not make all the transformations that the > cordova-cli > > > does, such as: > > > - change the path names according to the project name; > > > - change the package names/folders in android according to the > > appID; > > > - change some file names according to the appId/bundleID in > > > android/iOS; > > > - change class names and other bits of code in the android/iOS > > > project to match the app name. > > > > > > > > > I would like weex-toolkit add platform commands to create a properly > > > configured project, with the correct name, bundle id, paths, > namespaces, > > > etc. And I am ready to dive into it again! > > > > > > So I have some questions: > > > > > > - Is anyone working on that? Someone I could join in this? Anyone > wants > > > to join me? > > > - Mirroring the cordova implementation seemed a very smart move to > get > > > with something working fast, but now it seems to me that it is an > > > over-engineered solution. Cordova is an old-ish project, and its cli > > > clearly had too many iteractions. I looked into the NativeScript cli > > (tns) > > > and it feels much more modern and fresh. Wouldn't it be a good idea > to > > > start a weex-toolkit from scratch? > > > - I created a vue-cli template for weex ( > > > https://github.com/tralves/weex-vue) that sets some variables and > > > configurations. I think it could be a good solution to have users > > bootstrap > > > the project with the vue-cli they already know and love, and then use > > the > > > weex-toolkit to work with the native and weex details. > > > > > > What are your thoughts? > > > > > > Thanks! > > > Tiago > > > > > -- Best Regards! sospartan http://weex.apache.org/ <https://weex-project.io/>
