Hello Max! Glad to see you drop in. I've tried out your stuff a bit, and have been showing off your demos (Is the Weather demo fixed yet?!). I'm even tinkering with wrapping our cordova test suite in ionic (but am concerned about platform support, investigating graceful fallback options -- any suggestions there?).
My biggest concern with ionic has been with its use of its own CLI. We already have cordova-cli, and there other downstream distributions (phonegap, cca), etc. While you aren't exactly setting new precedent here, I think ionic framework, unlike the others, would be super valuable to embed within these other projects instead of being standalone. I know you have cordova seed projects on github, but they aren't really in the right form, I think. So: Is it possible to, moving forward, make it easier to consume ionic boilerplate & plugins butt without using your CLI? We would be happy to change cordova-cli to fit the needs. Some ideas: - We already support `cordova create --link-to=` / `cordova create --copy-from=` to import a boilerplate app, and we have as a task to add support for `--from-git=`, which could be used to import an ionic-boilerplate app. - Just recently Gorkem Ercan started work on support for platform & plugin dependencies for boilerplate applications. (Thread: "engines and plugins on config.xml"). Basically this means the `cordova create` could automatically install the plugins needed to run the boilerplate app. - We should leverage yeoman generators, or custom manifests with CLI hooks, instead of forking the CLI for a lot of things. Basically, what are ionic's real requirements, and how can we help remove your need for a CLI so that I can use ionic in my existing cordova/phonegap/cca applications? Thanks! -Michal On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.bl...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hey ! > Just to say that I really love Ionic, this is really impressive stuff !! > Can we have so tips on the plugins you are going to release ? > Seb > > > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Max Lynch <m...@drifty.com> wrote: > > > Hey Cordova Devs, > > > > I'm one of the creators of the Ionic Framework ( > http://ionicframework.com/ > > ) > > which is an OSS mobile dev framework running on Cordova and using > > AngularJS. > > > > We are starting to get more active in building open source Cordova > plugins, > > and I'm excited to be more a part of the Cordova community going forward. > > We've got a few plugins in the works we plan on releasing over the coming > > weeks/months. > > > > That's all I have, just wanted to introduce myself and hopefully connect > > with a few of you as we start to get deeper into Cordova development. > > > > -- > > Max Lynch > > CTO of Drifty > > 414-530-9687 > > http://drifty.com/ > > >
