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From: "Mooli Tayer" <mtayer@redhat.com> To: "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme@redhat.com> Cc: devel@ovirt.org Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 9:17:20 AM Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] Tools for developing and building oVirt.js project
Are we talking about using node as a development/test/packaging(minify etc ) tool or having a runtime backend (site) on top of node?
It is only devel environment (e.g. build dependency), not runtime. I'd just like to point out that one thing is the development of the ovirt.js itself which is not going to be a big project and I can imagine also using less ideal (slower) tools for it's development. A completely different story will be when (if) we decide to use ovirt.js to develop some parts of the webadmin/userportal in javascript instead of GWT (or even rewrite the whole FE to JS) which will be a big project (set of projects). If we want to be effective in that effort, we will need good tools.
From my perspective I can't stress enough how important is the separation of ovirt UI part from the backend. I agree to everything Vojtech said about developing to the browser with java.
Mooli.
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From: "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs@redhat.com> To: devel@ovirt.org Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 11:13:38 AM Subject: [ovirt-devel] Tools for developing and building oVirt.js project
Hi guys,
last week, we had "oVirt.js PoC" session and I mentioned the possibility of using Node.js and related tools like npm to develop & build oVirt.js project.
I'd like to hear your opinion - what do you think about using Node.js in context of developing & building JavaScript projects? (oVirt.js etc.)
Obviously, I'm strongly biased towards Node.js because of its popularity and therefore availability of various tools (npm packages) for JavaScript, for example: grunt (task runner), jslint/hint (code analyzer), uglifyjs (minify/compress), karma (both one-time & continuous test runner), traceur (es6 -> es5 compiler), etc.
My understanding is that any special-purpose JavaScript development tool is typically implemented as module for Node.js (due to its popularity), so I think it makes sense to use Node.js as a platform for JavaScript development.
There are also Java-based projects for JavaScript (post)processing like wro4j, however these tend to be implemented by invoking JS tools (like uglifyjs) from Java context via Rhino (JS engine for Java), for example:
https://code.google.com/p/wro4j/source/browse/wro4j-extensions/src/main/java...
(To me, developing JavaScript project with Java-centric tooling sounds quite strange in general.)
There's also webjars repository for hosting popular web resources for use in Java applications (i.e. Maven artifact for uglifyjs etc.), but this is just for easier dependency management from Java perspective (JAR file as a distribution format for web resources):
Overall, I'm in favor of using Node.js to manage all tasks related to JavaScript development and build process. If you have any objections or suggestions, I'd like to hear them!
(I understand that Node.js essentially means new dependency with all implications, but in this case, I think it's worth it. But this is just me, so please share your opinions.)
Thanks, Vojtech
I think most developers would agree that node.js is the tool of choice for JavaScript development.
The thing we must carefully consider is that node.js uses its own package manager (npm -- much like maven), and unlike maven, tooling does not yet exist to deal with npm packages in an rpm environment.
This isn't on the same level as adding a logging library or a collections library or something. I'd argue that dependencies don't get any heavier than this one. That is worrisome to me.
Run 'yum list available |grep nodejs' on your machine to see which node.js packages are available. Note that I don't see karma or uglify available in either Fedora or Red Hat SCL (Software Collections) [1].
[1] https://sochotni.fedorapeople.org/nodejs010-RHSCL-1-RHEL-6/Server/x86_64/os/...
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