DoneJS Contributors Meeting – 2017-09-08

[chasen]

Please add topics for discussion (and your status if you’re a contributor).

Epics:

• bit-docs alpha — 29 / 135
• CanJS 3.10.1 — 48 / 48
• CanJS 3.10.2 — 1 / 4 ️
• CanJS 3.11.0 — 10 / 64 ️
• HTTP/2 & Incremental Rendering Evangelism — 22 / 51
• Proposal: Streamable apps — 219 / 261
• React View-Model — 39 / 59
• Revisit can-connect — 15 / 25
• Slim - Phase 2 — 29 / 34
• 2017-09 Developer Relations — 36 / 109 ️

Live Stream:

[chasen]

Last week:

• Published August 2017 DoneJS Community Update
• Released DocumentJS 0.5.1 with a fix for using it globally
• Set up a new event for DoneJS LA
• Completed our switch over to https on the forums
• Updated & merged Fix a bunch of broken or poorly-formatted demos
• Added docs for StealJS’s plugins config
• Worked on my CSS-Tricks and React articles
• Started prepping for the community survey

Next week: my focus will be on launching a landing page for the community survey

Demos: community update blog post, DocumentJS update, DoneJS LA, plugins docs

[leoj3n]

Last Week:

• Mission Critical Sprint Ideas
  • Worked through some branches and PRs.
• (on the side) Art Theme mockup
  • StealJS website concept.
  • Threw up some old code from an old idea.

Next Week:

• Merge merge merge. All the branches.

[justinbmeyer]

This Week:

• Started Stable and Innovative Code Bases series of articles
• DoneJS LA, Chicago, Silicon Valley, and Boston events scheduled

Next Week:

• Finishing blog series
• Helping get survey underway
• make a streams training video

Demos:

• How to Manage Code Across Many Independent Repositories

Topics:

• {{#each items item=value}}
• What should we name -4u?

[phillipskevin]

Last Week:

• CanJS 3.10.1 - new dev warnings and critical can-view-live fix
• CanJS 3.10.2 - critical fix for getters using lastSetVal

Next Week:

• 3.11.0
• Writing up proposals for potential CanJS features

Demo:

• New dev warnings

[bgando]

• Helped with some prep for the community survey
• Helped with some error messages
• Created a script to generate release notes
• Fixed some broken builds and broken tests

[pYr0x]

this week

• making can-ejs work again with steal 1.x (https://github.com/canjs/can-ejs/pull/43)
  you now can use can-ejs as a steal plugin the same way as steal-stache. building your app with ejs and steal-tools work too.

next week

• integrate steal-serviceworker into steal-tools
• some code improvements on steal-bundler

[Sinjhin]

This Week

• Self-referential templates {{>*self}}
• Documented on:input:value:to for the new binding syntax

Next Week

• Finish implementing `{{#with first=person.first last=person.last}} syntax
• CanJS 3.11 Issues

[chasen]

Attendees: @bmomberger-bitovi @chasen @justinbmeyer @phillipskevin @pYr0x @Sinjhin

Demos:

• {{>*self}} referential templates in can-stache 3.7
• How to Manage Code Across Many Independent Repositories
  • The can package with all the package versions for a single release of can
• CanJS 3.10.1 added a bunch of new warnings (props to Bianca & Brad!)
• Removed pre-release dependencies from a bunch of our packages
• can-view-model now has docs for everything you can pass to it
• {{#eq}} is now documented (it’s the same as {{#is}})
• Research on avoiding cyclic dependencies
• can-ejs 3.1.6 fixes compatibility with StealJS

Topics:

Deprecate {{#each x as KEY}} in favor of {{#each x item=value num=index}}:

• We had a long conversation about different ideas for making scope explicit
• Justin’s going to write a proposal for his ideas

We tabled What should we name -4u? for another meeting.