Flow/Front-end meeting

Met 2013-01-21

Doing a front-end
Do API entirely through JSON

Keep track of which parts have been requested.

Some of it will use the PHP mw.ui and the OO-UI approach.

Data model
A tree of of objects that emit events.

Build out a UI that listens for these events, and add widgets for them. A data tree and a widget tree that are linked by events.

Benefits
You never root around in jQuery to find things, you always know what you're working with.

Widgets
A widget has jQuery element, and contains nested widgets.

General
Load out