On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Brian Gallagher
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.Thats all really very encouraging!
>
> After spending a few hours today with doing the tutorials and reading
> document, I'm really impressed.
>
> What features are on the roadmap? One of the strengths of ZF2, IMO, are the
> third party modules, do you envision a similar ecosystem for apigility?

The current 1.1 roadmap includes:

- Doctrine-Connected services (zf-apigility-doctrine already exists,
but a contributor is working on integration with the admin UI)
- DB Autodiscovery (essentially point at a database, and this finds
all tables, let's you choose which to expose, and does validations
based on the column types -- DB-Connected on steroids, essentially)
- HTTP Caching
- Mongo-Connected (but only if we can do autodiscovery for it as well)

In terms of modules, Apigility is itself created from modules, and any
new features we create will be done as modules. The goal is to make it
possible to re-use the modules within ZF2 applications. I'm hoping we
have very few Apigility-specific modules, TBH, but rather
general-purpose modules that we expose in Apigility, but which can
also be mixed into existing ZF2 applications to provide features.

Undoubtedly, there will be some modules that target functionality
specific to the modules that make up Apigility -- e.g., to provide
alternative authentication or authorization. However, even there, they
are building on modules, and could be picked up in a general ZF2
application.

So... same ecosystem. :)


> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Brian Gallagher
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I'm starting a new project which will be API centric. I've a fair amount
>> > of
>> > experience with ZF2 so I'm currently toying with using Apigility.
>> >
>> > However as the project is still quite young, I do worry that ongoing
>> > development might wane or cease.
>> >
>> > What has uptake been like? What is Zend's commitment to the project?
>>
>> Uptake has been steady, and reaching > 10k downloads per month (and
>> we've seen a 33% increase in the past 2-3 weeks!). Right now, my team
>> is focused almost entirely on Apiglity, both in terms of stabilizing
>> it as well as shepherding new features; our ZF2 schedule has been
>> greatly reduced, and we're leaning primarily on community help for
>> maintenance, while pushing in fixes and features as needed based on
>> Apigility issues that are based upstream.
>>
>> Zend is quite committed to Apigility, as it helps promote its mission
>> of enabling mobile-centric, cloud-enabled applications; APIs are a
>> natural fit for that, and Apigility promotes best practices,
>> particularly around building API-First projects.
>>
>> You'll be seeing Apigility around for quite some time!
>>
>>
>> --
>> Matthew Weier O'Phinney
>> Project Lead            | [email protected]
>> Zend Framework          | http://framework.zend.com/
>> PGP key: http://framework.zend.com/zf-matthew-pgp-key.asc
>>
>> --
>> List: [email protected]
>> Info: http://framework.zend.com/archives
>> Unsubscribe: [email protected]
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
>  Brian
>
>  tel: +353 (0)864008052
>  email: [email protected]
>  skype: gallagherbrian



-- 
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
Project Lead            | [email protected]
Zend Framework          | http://framework.zend.com/
PGP key: http://framework.zend.com/zf-matthew-pgp-key.asc

-- 
List: [email protected]
Info: http://framework.zend.com/archives
Unsubscribe: [email protected]


Reply via email to