moving towards web components

[forresto]

Things to design:

1. how to expose i/o ports to graphing ui?
2. attributes: number, string, boolean types?
3. on-demand element loading

@bergie

[forresto]

See: https://github.com/Polymer/projects/tree/stable/Sandbox

[forresto]

Making forresto/dataflow-prototyping#1 in a day has me excited about rearchitecting Dataflow. Issues like noflo/noflo-ui#14 that are specific to noflo will be easier to build closer to noflo. We can build the visualization of the graph directly with Object.observe, which should alleviate syncing issues. Current cards will be easy to port.

So the question: if we are close enough to a usable Dataflow now, I think we should get it there to help us bootstrap this next version. Can we prioritize those issues?

[bergie]

The Web Components implementation is at https://github.com/the-grid/the-graph