Pure programatic APIs & Decoupling from grunt.

[bd82]

Related to https://github.com/SAP/grunt-openui5/issues/20

Are there any plans to provide plain node.js programatic APIs for OpenUI5 dev flows?

That will enable supporting any build system and avoids coupling the development flows to a build system that is becoming less and less popular and common...

See:

• https://stateofjs.com/2016/buildtools/
  • That is from 2016, the 2017 survey results should hopefully be released soon.
• http://www.npmtrends.com/grunt-vs-gulp

Just to emphasize I'm not saying there should be gulp or webpack plugins for Openui5 dev flows. Instead there should be generic APIs which could be reused in any javaScript build tool.

Thanks. Shahar.

[RandomByte]

Hi @bd82,

Yes, this is actually what we are working on right now.

At the last UI5con there have been two talks mentioning and sharing some of our plans regarding the "evolution" build tooling:

• UI5 Evolution – performance, architecture, trends: https://youtu.be/vZfxBXu6_Lc?t=13m49s
• CI – Build process & automated testing of UI5 Apps: https://youtu.be/TceM3zf8VSk?t=28m4s

Hope this answers your question! Merlin

[bd82]

Thanks @RandomByte for the detailed information!

[RandomByte]

The new UI5 Build and Development Tooling has been released as a pre-alpha: https://github.com/SAP/ui5-tooling

As part of that, you can use the Builder module to directly work with the Node.js APIs to for example build themes or create bundles.