meteor-modal-dialog

This repository contains a prototype mini framework for dialog management in meteor using bootstrap 3 and a test harness to help with development and illustrate its use. This will probably be broken out into a separate package once it matures.

Features

• automatic mapping of data from DOM elements in a template to properties in an object
  • The element must use the name attribute to describe which property to map the value into int the object
  • this gives you the benefits of two way data binding but gives flexibility with mapping and works with blaze, not against it
• hook for customized data mapping
  • for cases the automaper can't handle (e.g. making an API call to get a value)
• hook for customized validation logic
• hook for customized saving
  • simpleUpsert is included to automatically insert or update to a collection when saved
  • can also provide your own function to save via meteor methods or otherwise
• automatically sets the focus to the element with the autofocus attribute when the dialog is shown
• template oriented naming conventions minimizes configuration effort

Backlog

• revisit the data clearing mechanism - removing the dialog from the DOM seems hacky and may not be reliable. Maybe inject the dialog into the DOM via Blaze.renderWithData()

• make the clearing of the dialog data optional? Not sure what the use case is for this NOTE: injecting the dialog each time via Blaze.renderWithData() would allow control over this

• consider using the data property of the template instance rather than {{dialogData} NOTE: this would impact the automated data clearing mechanism

• consider replacing use of session with ReactiveVar NOTE: The counter against this is that it would not survive hot code reload

• consider moving the hooks into the template itself? This might be bad practice..

• consider adding support for arrays and child objects (NOTE: possible now via customized data mapping hook)

• add support for mapping to Number types (NOTE: possible now via customized data mapping hook)

• add support for mapping to Date types (NOTE: possible now via customized data mapping hook)

• create a generic validator mechanism to integrate with third party packages (e.g. SimpleSchema) (NOTE: possible now via customized validation logic hook)

• create a generic mapping mechanism to integrate with third party packages (e.g. bootstrap datetime picker) (NOTE: possible now via customized data mapping hook and customized initialization hook)