mhl
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10 years ago Hi @martinszy. The idea in the past has been that because PopIt is RESTful, return JSON and supports JSONP, it should be easy to use from Javascript without having a library specifically for that language. However, after some discussion we think we may well rethink that.
In any case, as an example of how one could use PopIt from Javascript, I made a fairly minimal example which uses client-side Javascript in the browser to render a list of current members of South Africa's National Assembly. This exposed three or four problems that I've now created issues for, but may still be a useful example:
- Source code: https://gist.github.com/mhl/91f528e342305dfb13a5
- Running version: http://firefly.ukcod.org.uk/~mark/popit-js-example/
The referenced issues are:
Cargografías http://cargografias.org/ is a data visualization initiative that works with the work history of politicians, they intend to use PopIt as a backend to store politicians information such as their work history in a way that will let them create graphs and analysis.
They want to use PopIt directly from JavaScript, is that possible or has anyone worked on that?