fix(PackageListCtrl): Swap ng-repeat for ng-grid

[nicwins]

Improves render performance of the package list on the website. CSS
changes are not addressed in this commit. Jquery and and ng-grid have
been added as client-side dependencies. Angularjs upgraded
from 1.2.0-rc2 to 1.2.0

Fixes to #1326

[purcell]

Playing with this now - thanks!

It's certainly much faster. The fixed height and scrolling within the table is less convenient, though, so I'm just taking a bit of time to understand the trade-offs and alternatives, such as re-integrating datatables.

[milkypostman]

@nicwins is there anyway to make this non-fixed height?

[purcell]

@milkypostman I think the whole point is that this only renders a limited-height list, for speed, but I may be mistaken.

[milkypostman]

hrm, I just got a chance to try this out and it's cool but is a bummer having two independent scrolling mechanisms.

[milkypostman]

What if we were to make the package list its own page and have it be fixed height of the browser window. as it stands I do kinda find the current way to be a bit cumbersome. Like, it you only have a few results you scroll to the top of the page automatically. just an idea; not like I have so much free time I can just whip it up!

[nicwins]

@milkypostman -

re: no-fixed-height @purcell is right, there's no way (that I know of) to turn off fixed height and get good performance.

re: 100% page height: thats what I've always done when using ng-grid on my projects. It works well -- I can put together a version doing that this weekend. There's couple of options:

1. Shrink and move all the content above the grid off to one side
2. Put it on its own page

I'm just throwing option 1 out there because its kind of nice to land on the page and just start searching.

[milkypostman]

this would be excellent.

i don't really use the package list all that much and my guess is that
people normally just use it to see if a package is available. probably the
most important "front page" item for us should be explaining what MELPA is.

So my vote is for having the home page be the description and twitter feed
(which can now be expanded a bit) and then have a packages page. people can
bookmark it if they need quick access.

it's kinda purcell's baby so he can have final say.

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:13 PM, nicwins notifications@github.com wrote:

@milkypostman https://github.com/milkypostman -

re: no-fixed-height @purcell https://github.com/purcell is right,
there's no way (that I know of) to turn off fixed height and get good
performance.

re: 100% page height: thats what I've always done when using ng-grid on my
projects. It works well -- I can put together a version doing that this
weekend. There's couple of options:

1. Shrink and move all the content above the grid off to one side
2. Put it on its own page

I'm just throwing option 1 out there because its kind of nice to land on
the page and just start searching.

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[purcell]

Closing because we've switched away from Angular. Thanks again, though. :-)