Migrating to Vue.JS

[nickvergessen]

For me with the experience of the last release it seems that the migration to Vue.JS should be the next/first step in the next release.

Currently only @danxuliu can work on JS/UI related stuff, due to the wizard staff in his hand which makes him able to understand and handle the Backbone/Marionette stuff.
The biggest issue is, that we have a bloated entry point (app.js, which already got smaller with the recent extractions). Also there are lot of tools/packages which help us concentrating on our core business: the talk app.

• nextcloud-vue: https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloud-vue/
  • navigation sidebar handling
  • popover menu: ask guests for a name when they join a public room 👤 Ask Guest to enter a name when connecting #855
  • rightside bar: VueJS is appearantly also planed as I heard from @skjnldsv
  • multiselect: replacing the select2 for room creation/participant adding
• inifinite-scrolling: which daniel implemented lately: https://github.com/tangbc/vue-virtual-scroll-list

Also this would help as a base work for other stuff on our todo list and prevent duplicate UI implementations as we have to do everything in backbone/marionette first and then in Vue again:

• Allow filtering of the room list and add suggestions for creating a new room on the fly: "New conversation..." should be changed to "Search or start a new chat" #1010
• search/filter of chat messages
• accessibility
• Extraction of UI parts from webrtc/simplewebrtc for New WebRTC library #1063

So I would suggest to discuss this in our meeting next week.

cc @nextcloud/talk @nextcloud/vue

[jancborchardt]

So I would suggest to discuss this in our meeting next week.

Any results which came out of this? Any input from @skjnldsv @juliushaertl @MorrisJobke @georgehrke and others? :)

[nickvergessen]

Closing the meta ticket