Re: PGAdmin 4 architecture (Was: [Patch] PGAdmin 4 JSON Handling)

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 5:40 AM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Ronan Dunklau
>> > In my opinion, it should either be done by using a set of widgets already
>> > designed to work together (think of wxwidgets, but for the web), using one of
>> > the frameworks I mentioned before. Or alternatively, by developing the glue
>> > between those widgets ourselves, using something like Backbone to wrap those
>> > libraries into nice views able to play together.
>>
>> The problem is that I haven't found any OSS frameworks that provide
>> anything like the capabilities we have by using ad-hoc components.
>> There is nothing at all that comes close to the functionality (and
>> look/feel) of wcDocker, CodeMirror, AlertifyJS and aciTree that I've
>> found, let alone in a single framework. I've spent a *lot* of time
>> researching that, and trying to find components that give us what
>> we're going to need.
>
> +1 this.  A lot of the unified frameworks have problems that should
> make you very cautious in terms of using them for the general case.
> Beware libraries that are 'all in' and make it difficult to mix/match
> different widgets.
>
> Even some of the best frameworks, such as angular, can be difficult to
> write highly performant code against because there is so much action
> at a distance going on.  For my 0.02$ I'll throw slickgrid into the
> mix which is a very fast library (see:
> http://mleibman.github.io/SlickGrid/examples/example-optimizing-dataview.html)
> and a good API.  For a general purpose admin tool, performance is very
> important.

Ooh, that's nice. I have a feeling we're going to need a grid control soon :-)


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