On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 03:07:35 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe
wrote:
On Friday, 30 October 2015 at 21:03:21 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
On Friday, 30 October 2015 at 16:16:11 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe
I really have to say I fail to see any value in that JS
interface generation feature. The idea is nice, but it needs
adapters to common ajax libraries, instead of homegrown stuff.
I'm not really a web developer. Do you have any examples of
what you mean?
In frontend development people are likely to use the same
framework/library they used last time, in order to speed up
development. Besides know-how, most of that stuff is
battle-tested.
Keep in mind that javascript frameworks die after ~2 years.
Instead, what you want to do is generate code that uses one of
those libraries. Here is an example of how an ajax call looks
Browsers are now providing promises/futures for fetching data:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API/Using_Fetch
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Promise
