On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 5:08:28 AM UTC+10, Christopher wrote: > > > > But having seen a colleague of mine use the Jenkins API and AngularJS to > build some really nice (though narrowly focussed) Jenkins front-ends for > internal apps, dashboards and for customer use, I really like the idea > of building the Jenkins UI on top of its API. > > As you may have seen, this is something Tyler did some work on during > FOSDEM last year. The basic prototype I saw at the time was pretty > decent, but as mentioned above and at the time, of course there's a > *lot* of backward- and plugin-compatibility to think about: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/jenkinsci-dev/dV680PGiI1Y > > > I have some experience doing fairly advanced UIs on top of the various APIs - they are quite powerful (other than, notably the config - where it is more of an xml blob) for doing a lot of things. This does feel a little "boil the ocean", and even if worthwhile, the non js based UI will be around for a long time yet, so it is probably worth putting a bit if work in to that to start with.
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