[Plone-conference] Food for thought on AngularJS and Plone

[Maurits van Rees]

Laurence Rowe schreef op 03-11-14 13:52:
> The important point though is that web projects are becoming much more reliant on JavaScript and people will need to build custom front-ends in a range of technologies. I think that makes the JSON API the best place to separate JS and Python code in the long run.

+1

I could imagine an alternative Plone distribution containing a subset of 
the Products.CMFPlone dependencies with all front-end code ripped out, 
so no css, no javascript, no diazo, no zope page templates. Only code 
that can output json.
That would only be realistic if the plone json api was reasonably 
feature complete, including creating a new Plone Site, installing 
add-ons (though this could be handled in buildout bij 
collective.recipe.plonesite) and adding users.
Then again, you could have one proper full zeoclient with the standard 
Plone UI for site admins, and another one purely for handling json calls.

Just dreaming for now.  It may have its uses.

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