HTML/javascript frontend

[quarnster]

Just because we can

[wwwsevolod]

may be split up project to backend/frontend for not doing all things in one place? :)

[quarnster]

Maybe in the future, right now I think it'll be easier to have everything here

[FichteFoll]

Would HTML/Python also be an alternative? Or too complex to implement a Python wrapper since most HTML engines only feature JS?

[quarnster]

Whatever floats your boat and you want to work on, I'm not going to stop. For this one in particular the intent is to have the backend serve html/javascript over http to be displayed in a webbrowser.

[quarnster]

BTW, bits and pieces can be lifted from the old gh-pages lime.js.

[philproctor]

Thinking about taking this one on. It would likely include service-izing the backend as alluded to in #129 . Any thoughts on this?

[quarnster]

There's a (quite bad) proof of concept in frontend/html that you can continue to build on. IIRC it resends the whole html page every time there's a change so one of the first steps could be to make it just send changed lines. IIRC it is also constantly polling the server for changes, there are probably better ways to handle that.

Though feel free to throw it all out and start from scratch if you think that'd be better.

[raiden-dev]

Hey guys, you're doing great work! I really interested in html/js/css frontend, just because it's great for UI development and can bring more people to contribute to project. I'm not familiar with Go and QML, but very familiar with web-frontends stack and be glad to write some styles / js if someone just show me where to :)

[erbridge]

Work has been started on this and individual enhancements or bugs should be registered separately.