Some notes for a talk on Vue.js and the future of Tiki for TikiFest Virtual 2021

Tiki and Vue.js

Tiki GUI History According To Me

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• When I arrived in Tiki (version 1.8) we had MooTools
  
• I added jQuery and jQuery-UI in 2.0 (optionally at first)
  
• Bootstrap arrived and things changed
  
• Time to consolidate!

Vue.js in Tiki

The Story So Far

• At TikiFestMacau2019 we decided to integrate Vue.js (thanks to @G.)
  

• Many jQuery-UI components have been replaced with Bootstrap ones, but several stubborn ones still to do)

Tiki GUI

The Story So Far

• Modules or Plugins?
  • Confusion from terminology
    Neither are modules or plugins
  • Confusion from functionality
    The choice of use seems arbitrary
• So Let’s Unify Them!
  • And call them:
    • Gadgets?
    • Widgets?
    • Modules? (no, we've had that one)
    • ...etc, so how about
    • Fluffies? (working title: thanks @luciash d' being 🧙)

Vue.js, meet Project Fluffy

• Let’s call them Widgets
• Use the “Tracker Revamp method” to keep the old code working while it is being replaced
  • Keep wikiplugin syntax, use Widget when available
    • Initial code ‘’sketches’’ are here https://gitlab.com/jonnybradley/tiki/-/tree/project-fluffy-2
  • New “adaptor” for modules (maybe with a map from module to Widget)

The Next Steps?

• We're having a technical discussion of how to proceed tomorrow
  The Future of Tiki's GUI Components (Project Fluffy and Vue.js) (12:00 UTC)
• Further thoughts being collided here: https://dev.tiki.org/VueJS-In-Tiki-Part-2