This is exciting stuff. In similar news Flow and mobile now have a shared ResourceLoaderTemplateModule [1] that supports shipping templates from server to client.
As a next step we should explore making sure these two things are compatible. It would also be highly useful when it is in a stable form to run some benchmarks against hogan and mustache on rendering time for some complex templates. [1] http://MediaWiki.org/wiki/Extension:Mantle On 7 Jul 2014 18:28, "Gabriel Wicke" <gwi...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > There are several new & exciting developments in HTML templating land. > > First of all, Ryan Kaldari kindly tested the Knockoff / TAssembly HTML > templating library from a Mobile perspective [1,2], and summarized his > findings on the wiki [3]. The main missing feature he identified was the > ability to mark up control flow outside of HTML elements. To address this, > I > just added support for Knockout's comment syntax to the Knockoff compiler > [4]. This turned out to be straightforward, and required no changes in the > TAssembly runtime. > > Secondly, Dan spotted two very promising developments in upstream > KnockoutJS: > > == Knockout Components == > There's a new version of KnockoutJS coming that might bridge a gap we saw > at > the architecture summit in January, the one between templating and > widget...ing. Knockout components [5,6] could be said bridge, they're > basically web components but possible now. > > == Curly braces == > The other thing they're adding is text interpolation so you can do > <span>{{name}}</span> and people don't have to be sad about Knockout's HTML > attribute syntax. This can simplify the migration for existing handlebars > compatible templates as used by Mobile & Flow. > > The KnockoutJS release is currently in early beta [7], with the release > expected later this summer. > > Gabriel & Dan > > [1] > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/HTML_templating_library/Knockoff_-_Tassembly > [2] https://github.com/gwicke/knockoff/, > https://github.com/gwicke/tassembly/ > [3] > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/HTML_templating_library/Knockoff_-_Tassembly/Mobile_spike > [4] > > https://github.com/gwicke/knockoff/commit/0e516979c3d1fb35489c58e7b659c3ad0b3cdf94 > [5] http://www.knockmeout.net/2014/06/knockout-3-2-preview-components.html > [6] > > http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2014/06/11/architecting-large-single-page-applications-with-knockout-js/ > [7] https://github.com/knockout/knockout/tree/gh-pages-3.2.0 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
