Re: Aurora React UI Demo/Prototype

2015-07-23 Thread Joshua Cohen
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Bill Farner wrote: > > > > One thing that did come up in the context of this discussion, however, > was > > the ability for Aurora to serve up a custom UI. There was a suggestion > for > > allowing Aurora operators to specify a custom UI path that would be > serv

Re: Aurora React UI Demo/Prototype

2015-07-21 Thread Bill Farner
> > One thing that did come up in the context of this discussion, however, was > the ability for Aurora to serve up a custom UI. There was a suggestion for > allowing Aurora operators to specify a custom UI path that would be served > up, allowing users to swap in a non-default UI. I'm curious what

Re: Aurora React UI Demo/Prototype

2015-07-21 Thread Joshua Cohen
I don't really disagree with any of the points you raise, David, they were all concerns I had going into the work, the only uncertainty was exactly how big of a change going from Angular to React would turn out to be. The primary reason why I ventured down this path to begin with is the looming Ang

Re: Aurora React UI Demo/Prototype

2015-07-16 Thread Joshua Cohen
I actually checked into a React replacement for smart-table, and one does exist: https://github.com/zippyui/react-datagrid. On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Suman Karumuri < skarum...@twitter.com.invalid> wrote: > Thanks for building this Joshua! > > I am -1 on a proposal to switch FE technology

Re: Aurora React UI Demo/Prototype

2015-07-16 Thread Suman Karumuri
Thanks for building this Joshua! I am -1 on a proposal to switch FE technology stacks for the same reasons David mentioned. Also, the current scheduler UI uses an angularJS library called smart table for rendering tables, searching and sorting columns and pagination. Since there is no react equiv

Re: Aurora React UI Demo/Prototype

2015-07-16 Thread David McLaughlin
Thanks for doing this and sharing code! I'd be -1 to any proposal to switch our FE technology stack for several reasons. I find this stack way too advanced for what the scheduler UI currently does. This is also a problem with Angular, but we're already stuck with that now. I also don't think any

Re: Aurora React UI Demo/Prototype

2015-07-16 Thread Joshua Cohen
There are numerous large and stable sites powered by this technology. Not least among them are Facebook and Instagram for which these technologies were developed (that being React/Flux). ES6 being transpiled down to ES5 is widely adopted as well (off the top of my head, I know Slack does it). ES6 i

Re: Aurora React UI Demo/Prototype

2015-07-16 Thread Bill Farner
I'm pretty ignorant of this space, please bear with me. You'll notice that the app is written in ES6 and not ES5 (i.e. the > javascript you're likely familiar with). As of React 0.13.x, ES6 with a > transpiler (i.e. a tool to compile the ES6 syntax into vanilla ES5 syntax) > is the preferred metho

Re: Aurora React UI Demo/Prototype

2015-07-16 Thread Joshua Cohen
For those who are not familiar with React, here's some more details/helpful links on the underlying technologies. 1) You'll notice that the app is written in ES6 and not ES5 (i.e. the javascript you're likely familiar with). As of React 0.13.x, ES6 with a transpiler (i.e. a tool to compile the ES6