Agree with all your points! Here is one more: FlexJS's MXML is a real alternative for React's JSX, which looks very similar to MXML [1]
1. Good timing, I am currently working on node.js support for FlexJS. The goal is to make FlexJS installable via a simple "npm install flexjs" command. I hope to get this out soon. 2. I think Josh Tynjala has a very good blog post with a hello world tutorial here [2] [1] https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/jsx-in-depth.html [2] http://nextgenactionscript.com/tutorials/hello-world-transpile-actionscript-apache-flexjs/ Thanks, Om On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 12:29 AM, Harbs <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was thinking of writing a blog post about FlexJS, and I realized that > FlexJS can mean different things to different people. > > 1. FlexJS (or really FalconJX) can be a competitor for TypeScript. I can > imagine people using it to write framework agnostic javascript libraries. > 2. FlexJS is a replacement for Angular/React with components, data binding > and business logic. > 3. FlexJS can act as a replacement for a lot of the “helper” js libraries > like underscore, etc. because there’s lots of helper functions built in. > (If we take as3commons, we get an ton more of those.) > 4. FlexJS can act as the “glue” that holds different JS libraries together > to form an app. > 5. FlexJS adds a lot of functionality you can not get in other frameworks. > i.e. E4X (once we finish with that), zip processing (via as3commons), > “real” components that can simply be dropped in, etc. > > To increase adoption of FlexJS, I think we need to market specifically to > these targets. It would probably be a good idea to figure out how to polish > our message as well as our delivery. > > Here’s some thoughts to get this discussion started: > > 1. For FalconJX to compete with TypeScript it needs dead simple > instructions on how to use. TypeScript does this right.[1] Getting npm > support really talks to JavaScript developers. Maven is fine as well. Both > is probably the best approach. > 2. Again, we need dead simple instructions on getting started with FlexJS. > The installer app is good, but some step by step instructions on how to > build some “hello world” apps would go a long way. These need to be on the > Flex website and not buried in some wiki somewhere. > > Thoughts? > > [1]http://www.typescriptlang.org/#Download
