Milestone and Future of ng-redux Discussion

[AntJanus]

Hi all,

I'm a new contributor on ng-redux and I'm taking over for @wbuchwalter on this repo. There are a few changes I'd like to implement and I want to use this issue to track them. If anyone has any input, I'm totally all for it and let's discuss it.

3.5.0 Milestone

Currently, the latest "version" of 3.4.0-beta.1 without any tags and release information. I'd like to release 3.4.0 ASAP and then brace for the final 3.X release: 3.5.0. What will be in this release (or will at least be considered):

• deprecation notice for removing Bower support (will be removed in 4.0.0) (Bower deprecation notice #151)
• dispatch result return (No longer swallowing the result of dispatch #120)
• remove unneeded $scope injection (Remove unneeded $scope injection. #108)
• copy over Symbol from Redux's createStore (preserve Symbol(observable) when connecting the store #129, fix: Replace lodash assign with Object.assign for symbol copy #144)
• type definition fix (Type definition now includes a 4th parameter on createStoreWith #114)
• dependency updates (chore(build): Switch to rollup + Update Dependencies #150)
• general doc updates/cleanup (chore(build): Switch to rollup + Update Dependencies #150)
• npm scripts syntax that uses binaries directly (feat(scripts): Use NPM path resolution over custom paths to binaries #146)
• prepublish scripts + .npmignore (chore(build): Switch to rollup + Update Dependencies #150)

Other features/fixes:

• set env to production

[deini]

Would love to see the ability to use ES6 classes for actions in the roadmap. #136

[AntJanus]

@deini do you know how Redux handles this type of situation? Or is this an ng-redux-only thing?

[deini]

@AntJanus Its more of a ng-redux thing, to be able to use Angular's injection in Action creators (eg: $http) you need to create a service that wrap those action creators.

If you make that wrapper service a Class, the connect doesn't work as expected, so right now we are using functions for those wrapper services, however its not ideal since all of our services are Classes with the exception of action creators wrappers.

I can take investigate a bit more and give you more details / submit a PR.

[HunterEl]

I can definitely help with some of the line-items on the 3.5.0 release checklist. Also, item 4 in the 3.5.0 milestone should be createStore not createStory, just want to make sure no one gets confused when reading the issues. Cheers!

[AntJanus]

@deini Ahhh, I see. Alright, yeah, if you can create a PR, let's shove it into a release right after 4.0.0, like a 4.1.0 I think that definitely makes sense.

@HunterEl if you can do code review and test some of the branches I reference, that'd be fantastic because then we can just merge that in and keep going.

[HunterEl]

@AntJanus Absolutely. Will do that this weekend.

[HunterEl]

@AntJanus, #120 Looks good and code-reviewed by me. Issue #180 from your comment should be #108, looks good. You've made a comment on #129. Let me know if there what else you would like to me to look at.

[HunterEl]

We should also get rid of the unmaintained header on the main readme. Would be bad to deter new people.

[AntJanus]

@HunterEl thanks for the hard work! I'm going to go ahead and do a release of the current beta and once that's done, merge everything you mentioned. We can wait for changes for a bit and I'll go ahead and start work on the 4.0.0 milestone.

Do you want to go ahead and become a collaborator? That way, your comments will carry the same weight and you can make direct changes/work on 4.0.0 as well.

[HunterEl]

@AntJanus My pleasure! And that would be great! Thank you.

[skortchmark9]

Glad to see this repo is becoming active again. It's been really great for keeping my state sane while maintaining a legacy app.

[rperrote]

I want to know more about testing with ngRedux. I can not even run test with mock (https://gist.github.com/kareniel/ac08b1b4e7c817583da649452a8839fe)