I think I covered everyones questions. If I missed any or anyone has followups to my replies, please keep them coming! Koha *needs* a way for us to develop and use modern web practices. Koha has always evolved as the web has evolved. If it didn't, we'd still be using pure cgi-script with no javascript or ui layout framework! It's time for Koha to evolve a again, and it's a very small step compared to say the introduction of Bootstrap. React will just be another tool we can use to make Koha even better than before, and will not require changing much code at all to add, and does not affect any currently submitted patches.

Again, please keep the questions and suggestions coming! Thanks to everyone who has joined in the discussion so far!

Kyle



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Meadville Public Library ( http://www.meadvillelibrary.org )
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 1:30 AM, Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall@gmail.com> wrote:
For my part, I don't know if we need to keep bolting on more new and shiny
to Koha.

ElasticSearch makes sense. A REST API makes sense. Fixing broken things or
adding missing essential functionality.

I'm not sure how this differs from Koha adding Zebra, adding Elastic or adding a restful api. To me, this is not a matter of adding new for the sake of new ( React isn't even new at this point ) but of adding something that is necessary and long overdue. The question isn't about needing React or not, it's about the need for a modern JS UI toolkit to take advantage of our svc and rest api's without the need to write crazy amounts of code to make it work with just jQuery. Take a look at the javascript file for the holds table and you'll see what I mean. A React implementation of it would be *so* much cleaner and easier to understand for everyone. Please don't ask me to rewrite it as a poc though ; ) I *will* be happy to rewrite it post-adoption.
 

Also, how would this React POC go in terms of translations?

React is just Javascript, and is translated the same way translate all our other js files.
 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: koha-devel-bounces@lists.koha-community.org [mailto:koha-devel-
> bounces@lists.koha-community.org] On Behalf Of Owen Leonard
> Sent: Monday, 19 September 2016 11:33 PM
> To: Koha Devel <koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org>
> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] To React or not to React
>
> > Another thing is that you need nodejs to compile it so is another
> > thing to throw on the stack.
>
> Isn't this the kind of dependency requirement that killed my request to
> introduce a front-end build tool like Grunt or Gulp?
>
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