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On 09/29/2014 03:12 PM, Sean Dague wrote:
> Over the weekend I redid elastic-recheck to use handlebars.js instead of
> inline dom building... it's so much nicer:
> https://github.com/openstack-infra/elastic-recheck/blob/master/web/share/index.html#L61-L79
> and
> https://github.com/openstack-infra/elastic-recheck/blob/master/web/share/elastic-recheck.js#L82-L85
> 
> I'd really like to get this pattern into more of our tooling, as I think
> it will expand the scope of the people who can contribute, as they can
> address formatting issues outside of javascript logic.
> 
> It seems like it would be nice to have it be rooted on
> static.openstack.org like jquery is, so we've got a common copy that
> everyone can use.
> 
> So... questions:
> 
> - Should javascript libraries be hosted on static.openstack.org (which
> reduces what users need to download) or should we carry them around in
> every app (which means static.o.o could be blocked or down, but the app
> would still work)?
> 
> - Regardless of where they go, how should we get them there via puppet?
>  - wget + file install?
>  - npm ?
>  - bower?
>  - some 3rd thing?

I am a big fan of the tooling pattern in storyboard-webclient - since
it's very much aimed at solving this. Some combination of krotscheck and
I will make an example patch we can all point at.

> Would be good to have a pattern here so we can repeat as required in the
> future.
> 
> 	-Sean
>