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Roadmap and collaboration

jirihybek

I would like to discuss project roadmap to specify milestones and steps to move META Web little bit forward.

My current view

Browser prototype
Basic specifications
API server / client libraries
Propagation of concept

Browser prototype (implemented in HTML5)

This is important because without ability to test concept specifications it is difficult to create them properly. Because I want to create these specs based on real needs.

Basic specifications

After base browser prototype will be ready then we can create basic specifications and components for most common use cases - eg. collections / records / text, email, password, number, ... properties.

Basic API server / client libraries

API libraries should be developed at the same time as browser + basic specs because browser needs to communicate with some backend. In this phase is also possible to test API for inter-service communication.

Propagation of concept

META Web concept may look complicated so it will be important to work on it's propagation towards public and other developers. We should find a way how to describe it and it's benefits much simpler. Maybe video presentation could help.

Current progress

I'am currently working on browser prototype. Dynamic model and parser is almost complete and I've also designed META Web document format basics - such as namespaces and versioning. Which is usable for browser because specifications will be changing a lot.

I will publish it's source as soon as it will looks more usable and cleaner.

Help needed

Because I'am working on it in my free time (which I haven't much) I am looking for other developers who can help me with basic specs and server / client API libraries at least. Contributions to browser implementation would be appreciated very much.

Also creation of some materials (media content) to help public understand this concept is welcome.

I know that there is not so much information about META Web concept available publicly yet so don't hesitate to contact me directly - jiri@hybek.cz.

klinki

What is current github organization and repository now? https://github.com/metaplatform or https://github.com/meta-web ? Have you considered cooperating with students in form of some school project?

I have even more limited time than usually now, so I cannot promise anything I hope it will get better soon, but probably not before September.

Maybe it would be good idea to have a roadmap and todo list in some github repository.
I think you could get inspired by TypeScript repository (https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript ) - they have roadmap and issues on github. They also have "Community" milestone for issues for which they accept public PRs.

Btw what are your currently preferred frameworks/libraries? To be honest I must say I have been quite disappointed by Angular lately, so I decided I won't be using it for any side project anymore. I started experimenting with Aurelia and it feels much easier to use than Angular. Also great advantage is it's trying to be standard compliant as much as possible (in contrast to Angular which goes it's own way and doesn't really care about standards much).

jirihybek

Repository

Official GitHub org is https://github.com/meta-web.

META Platform is partially open-sourced commercial project which aims mainly to NodeJS back-end. META Web will be a part of META Platform ecosystem in the future which will solve fullstack rapid app development (backend + frontend + microservices) but this is another story.

Firstly I would like to thank you for your interest, every help and experience (even theoretical) is appreciated.

Schools and other organizations

Yes, I would like to invite schools including universities to be part of this project. Also companies and commercial partners should be involved because every subject has specific real world needs which should be considered.

Cooperating with students in form of a school project is interesting idea but programming experience is needed. Do you have any ideas or tips who to contact?

I also have to note that I want to have a working demo (prototype) of META Web browser before inviting another organizations because it will be much simpler to present this concept then.

Roadmap

I agree, I will create a repository for concept and specification docs and we can use this repo as main for META Web project. Github wiki is great tool. Should I invite you to that repo?

Currently I want to discuss main milestones here and then put it to a nice list in a wiki.

Frameworks

I have been also disappointed with Angular. Now I have the best experience with React.JS which is just templating library but you can use any other framework to solve app architecture or write it from scratch on your own.

jirihybek

I created first roadmap draft - https://github.com/meta-web/meta-web/wiki/Roadmap