[Qa-debsources] [GSoc] Technology Discussion

Aaron Delaney aaron.delaney29 at mail.dcu.ie
Mon May 23 11:09:28 UTC 2016


> What about my other email? I at least
> asked about an irc meeting
> tomorrow.

I think Wednesday would be better for this week.

Thanks,
Aaron
On 23 May 2016 09:30, "Matthieu Caneill" <matt at brokenwa.re> wrote:

> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 03:28:35AM +0100, Aaron Delaney wrote:
> > > flow
> >
> > This was an odd brainfart. I meant to
> > say purecss, due to its lack of js.
> > However without a debian package this
> > may be an issue. What do you think?
>
> I think go for Bootstrap. From what I've seen, it's way more
> mainstream, which in general means less problems. It does what we
> want, and simply enough.
> That being said, I don't know much about Purecss. If you have strong
> arguments for it, I'm all ears :)
>
> > > default content is the one of
> > > the page initially fetched, while links either make the content of the
> > > zones refreshed, or redirect the user to a new page when there is no
> > > js. I don't know if it is straightforward to do.
> >
> > Interesting idea, I imagine the most
> > pragmatic soloution will involve breaking
> > the componants of the site to more
> > general modules. So the data needed to
> > display the site will have an
> > AJAX/websocket endpoint the dynamic
> > client can connect to.
>
> Yeah that's what the spa js libraries do for you.
>
> > I imagine for this work we will need to
> > run mocha or a similar testing library on
> > the site. I cant think of way to do run
> > these tests without a browser or node.
>
> Depends on the amount of js. But yeah, things like mocha and selenium
> are great for testing UIs.
>
> > This will need to be looked into this
> > week.
>
> Yes, keep us in touch about your research!
>
> What about my other email? I at least asked about an irc meeting
> tomorrow.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Matthieu
>
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