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JohnMcLear / draw

A real time collaborative drawing tool using nodejs, socket.io & paper.js
Apache License 2.0
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Code refactoring #210

Open bytesnz opened 8 years ago

bytesnz commented 8 years ago

The textbox stuff could a quite a bit of mess to draw.js. I was thinking it would be a good idea for all the tools to be contained within their own files. To do this we would need to employ a compiler, such as cjsc or browserify, and while we are doing that could employ tool such as grunt to manage everything (run sanity checks, tests, minification etc). Does this sound like a good idea and do you have a preference for such a thing? I use gulp, browserify, less, eslint (and also jasmine and karma for testing.

JohnMcLear commented 8 years ago

I see a lot of projects go down this route and requiring all these additional tools raises the barrier of entry..

While I'm +1 modularization I'm -1 increasing complexity so if we go this route it should be still super simple to modify the software without understanding additional underlying modules/application/build processes etc.