2018-09-10 UI Architecture (v7) notes

Date

10 Sep 2018

From last call on 9/7/18:

We discussed the future of frontend frameworks in the gap kickoff.
- Have roughly 20k LOC of Angular 1.X
- Development of Angular 1.X is continuing with the last planned release of 1.7 in 2018
- Support for Angular 1.X is said to continue through to ~2020
- There are some alternatives that would allow us to mix and match frameworks, such as React and Vue, along with Angular 1.X
- We have no significant funding to seriously consider a rewrite away from Angular 1.X
Refactor business logic to POJO
- POJO's for
  - Framework "independence"
  - Testability - objects
- Typescript/ES6 - haven't started, would need some investigation into dev experience impact and LOE
Still in the brainstorming phase, caution against refactoring before we have our chosen roadmap

Caching is a top concern
- There are often many repeated requests (e.g. minimal facilities)
- Orderables is a good example
  - Fetching many times across UI
    - stock on hand screen, 100x calling orderableFulfills, why?
- Only time we have a "caching" strategy is for offline requisition
- We have a tooling gap - What JS library/tool can help us cache, and manage that cache. IOW what's the Redis of JS?
  - JQuery (uses the browser's store) or jquery lite (ships with angular)
    - Does is enforce using localstorage
  - Overall we're still looking for a tool to help with caching
    - Lets us use the storage we want to use
    - Helps manage the cache
      - Expiring items in cache
      - Helps us use HTTP Caching headers
- We have a question on when to cache
  - On login
  - Just in time
  - We need to revisit this question
Gather more feedback on development concerns
- Did this in tech committee
  - Wasn't much feedback

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