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Famous Library packaged for Meteor.
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You can get famous.js now! #2

Open pelonpelon opened 10 years ago

pelonpelon commented 10 years ago

Lots of angry people after Wednesday night's launch. Numbers above 70,000 that I think are fake, because a lot of stuff seems available. Overnight, a skeleton of docs appeared on the website and some basic Guides were posted.

The repo has been available for a couple of days at least: https://github.com/Famous/famous with clear instructions on how to get a working copy (notice the submodule init step)

I'm looking forward to seeing how you've integrated meteor and famous. Now if I can squeeze polymer in there I'll be all smiles.

And thanks for your work in advance.

theprojectabot commented 10 years ago

stoked to get this integrated @hugesuccess

hugesuccess commented 10 years ago

@pelonpelon -- the interwebs are pretty amazing https://atmospherejs.com/package/polymer

@theprojectabot Don't be. I went so far as to try pulling the source directly from Famo.us home page, and some crappy demo apps already in the wild. (http://guitartuner.famous.zgardner.us/). It turns out that even if you download the source you need a token just to use the framework. They went to great lengths to hide this framework, the question one has to ask is... "why?".

fightingtheboss commented 10 years ago

Are you sure about the token issue? I've been using famo.us on my local for the past week and I'm pretty far back in the line up. It's just Javascript, not sure how they'd lock it down. I've read through all the source and haven't seen anything along the lines of it phoning home or needing a token.

The real challenge is getting requirejs / almondjs syntax working with Meteor, but it looks like someone in the community has already created a shim: https://github.com/raix/Meteor-famono/

hugesuccess commented 10 years ago

I'm not sure about anything with Famo.us, which is kinda why I'm not jumping up and down to invest tons of hours in it. You should be able to plop in a file and have it just work, but after multiple trys I kept getting a token error in the console and a blank page, so I was just like F it. I'm actually disappointed with this project. My biggest concern is that I hack it for Meteor, then the API drastically changes and I have to start all over. Also, at the current pace it's going to be about 5 months before I have regular access to the framework, and by then I'm going to be so over it. I'll poke around some more and see what comes of it. But I can tell right now that true Meteor integration is going to take a lot of work. The event model is all wrong and the templating system is going to be a nightmare in a production app. Not to mention the biggest issue, reactivity (IDK where to begin with this)! But, I'll give it a couple more hours and see if I have a breakthrough.