[Koha-devel] To React or not to React

[Kyle Hall]

>
> 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 at lists.koha-community.org [mailto:koha-devel-
> > bounces at lists.koha-community.org] On Behalf Of Owen Leonard
> > Sent: Monday, 19 September 2016 11:33 PM
> > To: Koha Devel <koha-devel at 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?
> >
> >   -- Owen
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