On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:05 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> wrote:
> Florian Fuchs writes: > If you want to go in that > direction, you'd have to address the question "why does this > application want to (mostly) run disconnected?" > The Javascript client is actually a node.js module, and users will be able to use it as part of a node.js application which just as Postorious, is server-side. I'd like it *to not* run disconnected, but that would mean Postorious (a Django app) would have to be able to use a node.js module, which isn't possible at the moment :). I understand what Florian is saying and I don't disagree, but let me > offer an alternative perspective for discussion. Build the small > app's UI first, and use that as a testbed use case for the javascript > side API that you're building. APIs need use cases (consider how > TCP/IP "rough consensus and running code" beat OSI's "a priori design > and engineering" for internetworking). I don't know that this is a > practical approach. Just sayin'. Bingo! That's what I was also thinking. However, we can set up proper test cases for each API, in Javascript as well. There is a large number of testing strategy modules that offer everything to set up a testing environment, stubs, mocks. I was also thinking how some university colleagues have begun a startup and they're offering an API to developers and they've already built API clients for a few web frameworks/languages. As part of their "marketing strategy" they're building proof of concept apps to showcase how the API clients are used and how their API is consumed. I do agree with Florian, this would be a small fun project, *after the client is finished*, during what's left of or after the summer. Cheers, Ana _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
