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On 01/12/2014 09:56 PM, Michael Krotscheck wrote:
> If all you're looking for is a javascript-based in-browser templating
> system, then handlebars is a fine choice. I'm not certain on how complex
> status.html/status.js is, however if you expect it to grow to something
> more like an application then perhaps looking at angular as a full
> application framework might help you avoid both this growing pain and
> future ones (alternatives: Ember, backbone, etc).

Honestly, I've not done enough large scale js projects to know whether 
we'd consider status.js to be big or not. I just know it's definitely 
getting too big for += all the html together and doing document.writes.

I guess the real question I had is is there an incremental path towards 
any of the other frameworks? I can see how to incrementally bring in 
templates, but again my personal lack of experience on these others 
means I don't know.

> Quick warning though, a lot of the javascript community out there uses
> tooling that is built on top of Node.js, for which current official
> packages for Centos/Ubuntu don't exist, and therefore infra won't
> support it for openstack. Storyboard is able to get around this because
> it's not actually part of openstack proper, but you might be forced to
> manage your code manually. That's not a deal breaker in my opinion -
> it's just more tedious (though I think it might be less tedious than
> what you're doing right now).

I'd ideally like to be able to function without node, mostly because 
it's another development environment to have to manager. But I realize 
that's pushing against the current at this point. So I agree, not a deal 
breaker.

	-Sean

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