jQuery community, Amazing work. I can't believe how fast jQuery has developed into the best bottom-up JS library. 1.4 looks great. But as jQuery expands to include things like lazy loading, it might be time for a sister project that provides important, but less commonly needed functionality in a standard and organized way.
Essentially, I would like to start a new branch of jQuery, akin to jQuery UI, that provides a standard set of tools and 'classes' that enable the development of more complex applications (by no means, does jQuery Enterprise has to be the name, just the first thing I came up with). The project COULD include: - A 'standard' way of organizing files - Compression - Documentation - Testing - Code generators - Scaffolding for easily connecting to services - Command line plug-in installation and dependency management. - A powerful class system (based off Resig's class) Obviously, these are all features of my project - JavaScriptMVC. But, I am more than willing to sacrifice the name/leadership/everything for the ability to explore these ideas with the jQuery community. Furthermore, it seems all JavaScriptMVC users use it with jQuery anyway! If you are questioning if these features are necessary, they are! I've worked on some very large projects with hundreds of custom JS files and multiple developers. At some point, developers need a repeatable way of building their applications and separating concerns. JavaScriptMVC provides that to a few lucky souls. I'd like to help jQuery provide that to everyone. It will also will help keep jQuery's core small and applicable to as many projects as possible. Here's my rough plan: 1. Get your blessing and support. Blessing being SVN access to a new branch. Support being interest and involvement from a few contributors. 2. Engage top jQuery contributors and users on application development best practices. I've slowly been interviewing some JS luminaries: http://javascriptmvc.com/blog/?cat=36. 3. Build it. I have already started to convert JavaScriptMVC to depend on jQuery (it's in JMVC's trunk). With support, this will take less than a month. That being said, I'm going to skip to step #2: jQuery community, What would you like to see in the jQuery "Framework"? How do you organize your applications? What sucks about testing, compression, documentation, etc? I can't wait to work for you! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
