Dear web2py community,
I think it would be great to get this feature added to the roadmap. In the
meantime I will be sticking to my Bottle + hand-coded AngularJS approach.
Below I have stipulated the advantages and disadvantages to code generating
static JavaScript + HTML5 from our web2py templates.
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Advantages:*
- Client becomes decoupled from backend
- This is great for testing and generally is good software
engineering practise
- Client can be packaged up into an HTML5 app (e.g.: with Adobe PhoneGap
for deployment to "native" mobile apps)
- Longer term would be great to get integration with PhoneGap's API
built in to the code generation
- Being generated for an MVC framework makes testing, debugging and
by-hand modifications easier; as well as "hijacking" that community
- web2py can be shrunk into two parts, a microframework and a
compilation framework. This will make it much more competitive to both
Bottle and Django
*Disadvantages:*
- Development time for code generator and its integration into web2py
- New versions of the MVC framework might break backwards compatibility;
adding to the development time for web2py [though their devs may start
providing patches]
Thanks for your consideration,
Alec Taylor
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