[Mailman-Developers] Javascript Client for Mailman

[Ankush Sharma]

Hey,

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Ana Badescu <anabee.emacs at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> While writing my proposal I came across 2 important issues related to the
> Javascript Client for the Mailman project that have yet to be raised:
>
> 1. What I initially had in mind, was to build a Mailman client in
> Javascript that provides the same API and functionality that the current
> one in Python does. The Python client API can be fully mimicked using a
> number of design patterns even though Javascript doesn't offer properties
> capability for example. However, node.js modules tend to take advantage of
> Javascript's asynchronous nature and have adopted sort of a standard
> practice to achieve it: it's called error-first callbacks, and most if not
> all APIs enforce it. You can read about it here
> http://thenodeway.io/posts/understanding-error-first-callbacks/
> and here
> https://docs.nodejitsu.com/articles/errors/what-are-the-error-conventions
>
> This boils down if we want to provide a client API that adopts the node.js
> conventions and works the same way most modules do or do we want to offer
> something almost similar to the current Python client API. There's a lot
> more to be said on this matter (for eg: callbacks being the reason why
> "callback-hell" exists) but I'd like to get your input first.
>

Since, you will be working with Node,js ; you cannot get away from
callbacks. This JavaScript port is not a simple port :)

2. I'd also like to make part of the project, a node.js application that
> uses the Mailman Javascript client and offers all the functionality
> Postorious does. Is that a good idea? This doesn't make the scope of the
> project too large or unattainable.


I cannot comment on this as I am a student just like you.

>
>

> Thank you,
> Ana
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Thanks,
Ankush Sharma