Revive

A light event driven based framework

A few words on Revive:

• Revive- let’s take the good parts and get rid off the complexity
• SPA based on Event Bus
• Messages are pushed toward the SPA via a WebSocket
• Internal modules are communicating via internal Event Bus
• Easy to save/restore states (we’ll get into this in details)
• No need for a pre-compilation
• Templates are welcome
• Each module is realized by a JQuery Widget
• Open source (Apache license)

Main components:

• Postal bus (https://github.com/postaljs/postal.js), at your will, can be easily replaced by others
• Revive- to manage the flow of data
• Revive- to manage the states (a light version of Redux- without all the hassle)
• Revive- to manage the service discovery (a light version of a service discovery)
• Bootstrap- to run the templating- total optional and can easily be replaced by others
• JQuery to run the Widgets

Revive- a short introduction:

• Open source
• Very light, only 16.4k (3.29k minified)
• Apache license
• Learning carve
  • At top, we need only to invoke
    • To handle the flow:
    • revive.on(“id_of_click_me","click", function(){//…});
    • revive.emit(“channel_orders",“queue_clicks",{message:"blah",qty:21});
  • To handle states:
    • revive.store(“label_state_2", revive.asState("click_me"));
    • revive.restoreAll(“label_state_2");
  • Support metadata via attributes
    • Second-Click

What do we need Revive for?

• For starters, we don’t- React+Redux are doing great
  • Yet… those don't fit to small SPA applications
  • Learning carve can kill your project
  • A strong dependency- not too easy to use Redux when you don’t need React
  • A few more…
• What we get is
• A light, yet a strong MVC/SPA framework
• Very simple to write with
• The only dependencies are Postal (and lodash), JQuery- which is already there, usually

Versions: 8/5/2019

• Version 1.3.2/1.3.3
• The mechanism of reply to a message was replaced.
• Bug fix.

11/3/2019

• Version 1.3.1
• Bug fix.

10/3/2019

• Version 1.3
• Added toggle() to allow toggling between two labels. First call will run the first label, second the second label, and so on. See index_toggle.html for n example.

18/2/2019

• Version 1.2
• Added played and replayed changes on a few elements.

11/2/2019

• Version 1.1
  • Added a service discovery.

8/2/2019

• Version 1.02
  • Bug fixes.
  • Added the ability to reply back to a message.

1/12/2018

• Version 1.0
  • Initial version.