flightjs/flight

A component-based, event-driven JavaScript framework from Twitter

Pascal Hartig

@passy

¡Holla! Would anyone be interested in upgrading the TodoMVC example for Flight? It's currently on 1.3, but I think it would generally be nice to show some of the newer patterns.

Adonis K.

@varemenos

@passy, @kmargaritis and I can take care of it towards the end of the week

André Tarnowsky

@lotterfriends

a webpack, karma, jasmin example would be nice..

yogibaba

@yogibaba

Would like to have a sample with browserify, karma

Brett Willemsen

@bzmwillemsen

Hey ya'll. Anyone around to answer some questions about Flight?

Brett Willemsen

@bzmwillemsen

So I'm looking to switch from a in-house framework to Flight, they're very similar except that Flight is obviously supported by many more developers. I had a question about attributes though.

In our in-house solution we define defaultAttributes as:

{ events: {
    'bob': 'blahblah',
    'bill': 'bloobloo' },
  selectors: {
    'anne': 'meepmeep',
    'ariel': 'moopmoop' },
  ...
}

as opposed to flight which suggest defining the defaultAttributes as:

{ 'bobEvent': 'blahblah',
  'billEvent': 'bloobloo',
  'anneSelector': 'meepmeep',
  'arielSelector': 'moopmoop',
  ...
}

We found that the Flight standard is very verbose. and results in a lot of repetition in our code. Is this really the best practice? We've thought about creating a mixin which will use 'selector.' for .select() but that seems really hacky and I would rather not have to do that.

Thoughts?

Gavin Engel

@gavinengel

Hello Flight crew ... I have a general question, please. I'm not seeing a huge amount of development being pushed into the master flight repository on Github. I mean, there is activity, but it's no where close to something like, for instance, Bootstrap..

So here is my question: Is Flight going to remain a big part of Twitter, or is there there serious discussion of replacing it with another framework?

Miguel Pérez

@miguel-perez

@gavinengel I was turned off from the project for the same reason. Not a ton of turials either.

tutorials*

Gavin Engel

@gavinengel

Interesting @miguel-perez

Miguel Pérez

@miguel-perez

So, I too, would like to hear the answer to @gavinengel’s question

Gavin Engel

@gavinengel

I am not even seeing a branch for version 2 in the Github repo, for instance

Oh sorry, 2 is the master

Anyway, I'll follow this gitter if anyone want to share thoughts. Regards

Selvam Palanimalai

@chartotu19

I had a general question about teardown. If my component doesnt bind anything to the document, and If I delete the root DOM node where this component is attached, do I still need to tear it down?

sperovic

@sperovic

morning all! :)

kevin cloinger

@sarasfox

what best why to inclue flight into my project

i am using gulp now

I am downloading jquery from google cdn now

kevin cloinger

@sarasfox

any have a example of flightjs without using require

kevin cloinger

@sarasfox

wow this place is dead

Dmitriy Ryajov

@dryajov

@sarasfox checkout https://github.com/dryajov/alicatejs its a good alternative to flight

sperovic

@sperovic

@dryajov not sure if u there but why would you steer people away from flight?

Erik Schwartz

@eeeschwartz

Hi folks - curious if there is a mechanism for using stateful urls with flight?

In particular I'd like to set the value of various forms according to GET params

Awal Garg

@awalgarg

Any internal devs here? I have been told flight doesn't keep source references to dom objects in event objects, and components don't have references to other components. I am curious about some consequences to this. Like how was sweeping away listeners of removed dom elements handled, etc. Any idea what part of the code should I be looking at?

Giuseppe

@giuseppeg

@awalGarg that is a good question

my guess is that $(node).remove() will remove all the listeners, but flight's internal registry

will still have a reference to them

however since the listeners where removed... if you fire an event on node the handler won't be executed

Giuseppe

@giuseppeg

http://jsbin.com/milupudezi/1/edit?js,console

Elton Kamami

@pixelgrid

hey guys

its the project really off?

i am maintaining some legacy project in flight js

i saw this repo https://github.com/flightjs/flight-with-observe

and thought there is movement in the library

but its a 1 year old repo

Giuseppe

@giuseppeg

@pixelgrid yep the development has stopped, twitter.com will eventually be rewritten in react. TweetDeck will probably stay on flight but the framework won't get any new features (it doesn't need any afterall)

the TweetDeck folks started to open source a few mixins at some point (called them toolbox)

@phuu was playing with redux also https://github.com/phuu/flight-redux-playground

Elton Kamami

@pixelgrid

@giuseppeg flight redux seems like a nice sideproject but i cant think of any reason anyone would go that route and not the actual react redux

Giuseppe

@giuseppeg

agreed

Andrew Quan

@AndrewEQ

Hello from 2017 all! :smile:

Giuseppe

@giuseppeg

Andrew Quan

@AndrewEQ

I like flightjs for its “simplicity”, I use it in conjunction with handlebars templates, how are you guys using it?

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