On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Michael Schmalle <teotigraphix...@gmail.com > wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On 5/15/15, 12:35 PM, "Michael Schmalle" <teotigraphix...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > >FlexJS does massive more since it does CSS, MXML States etc. But that > > >compiler in the repo right now can do what you mentioned already. > > > > Josh’s idea is interesting. In both Randori and FlexJS, the transpiler > is > > buried in the package. I think Josh is saying to make it “the” package. > > Nothing else in it except FalconJX. > > > > > Alex, it is. What do you mean buried in packages? You can run the > Randori.main() and pass it a flex-config.xml. I made compiler args for all > the output locations etc. > > So, I be numb but a transpiler has to have a main method and a config, that > is all the compiler is. The config says run FalconJX, I mean Randori main() > just could run 3 different compilers on the same parse run reusing the data > model. > > > > > Did Randori have a SWC of HTML DOM APIs? In FlexJS, we are sort of > hiding > > the DOM. > > > > Yes see; https://github.com/RandoriAS/randori-libraries > > > > > I think to do what Josh is suggesting we’d need a SWC of HTML > > DOM APIs and make sure FalconJX doesn’t really need > > playerglobal/airglobal. Having folks download from Adobe to make this > > thing work would probably kill enthusiasm for it. > > > > Alex, this goes back to our conversation earlier this week about > playerglobal.swc. :) You said you had special sauce, I said I wasted weeks > trying to fake a DOM only player global. :) > > > > > > > I have concerns about the energy required to make a FalconJX-only package > > successful. How would we get people to try it? How would we ever find > > the resources to compete with TypeScript and its JS framework wrappers? > > > > > DOn't know. I know alot of these libraries scrap HTML docs and its all an > automated process, Roland put a lot of time into his scrappers, check out > how many libraries we had 2 years ago! > Writing a TypeScript wrapper for a JS framework or library is not a trivial process. It is quite involved, time consuming and most of the time, hand-created. Here is a guideline and and example: http://www.typescriptlang.org/Handbook#writing-dts-files Creating TS wrappers for popular libraries is a market in itself: http://definitelytyped.org/ If there is a tool that does it (like the one Roland created), that would be a big deal. Thanks, Om > > > > > The thing about FlexJS is that I feel like we can get former Flex > > developers to try it and get things started that way, but without MXML, > if > > you are going to write a project purely in JS or AS or TS, why would you > > pick AS with TS being so much more mature? > > > > Still, an interesting idea. > > > > > Well, it's only a tool and I think Josh is saying having a vanilla > transpiler from AS to JS shows how compartmentalized our projects are. Flex > had a real bad reputation for hauling the kitchen sink wherever it went in > the UI framework and it's tool chain. > > Mike > > > > > -Alex > > > > >
