Re: [Plone-developers] Plone notes/thoughts are what's left with js integration

[Nathan V. G. <na...@va...>]

Some updates.

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 7:05 PM, David Glick (Plone) <dav...@pl...>
wrote:

> On 2/9/15 7:48 AM, Nathan Van Gheem wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The last couple days I've been looking at our final js issues. We're
>> actually pretty close to being done.
>>
>> Here are a few thoughts on what is left and I'm hoping I get some
>> responses in anyone has disagreements:
>>
>> - let's not get hung up on getting EVERYTHING into "patterns". We should
>> be okay with having non-pattern js files in our code. Those non-pattern
>> js-files should utilize/work with requirejs and our other patterns. I'm
>> thinking of things like reqistry control panel/plone.app.event/etc. I think
>> some of these js files don't fit easier into "pattern" space.
>>
> I'll have to recheck but almost everything is updated now.


>
>> - we should try and get rid of plone.app.jquerytools
>>
>
> Where are we still using it? Having a list would be a helpful starting
> point for getting people to help update it to patterns.

The big place we're still using it is the recurrence widget. I looked into
this widget but it's rather insane. We might not be able to get rid of
plone.app.jquerytools until Plone 5.1


>
>
>
>> - we need to get rid of plone_javascript_variables--all that data should
>> be on the body attrs now
>>
> This is done.


>
>> - it's hard to reproduce consistently, but I think we might have an
>> ordering issue with legacy js/css import step
>>
> I think we're fine here too.


>
>> - theming control panel is broken, needs lots of js love and some css
>> love(since it's "unthemed")
>>
> No longer broken but the theme mapper definitely needs more work yet.


>
>> - Dexterity Types editor will need some re-work.
>>
>>  I did some work on this and made 2 pull requests:
> https://github.com/plone/plone.schemaeditor/pull/20
> https://github.com/plone/plone.app.dexterity/pull/149

Merged.



-- 
Nathan Van Gheem
Solutions Architect
Wildcard Corp