Thank you to everybody who offered advice.  I've set up a Vue/Vite environment on my laptop and started working my way through the tutorials.  Some stuff makes a lot of sense; other stuff not so much yet, but I'm working on cleaning out some old neural storage areas to make room for new knowledge.

I think what would help me at this point was being able to look at the source for some well-written Vue apps written to work in the wikipedia environment.  If folks could point me to some examples, I would appreciate it.  Are there higher-level wrappers around the Action API, like pywikibot for Python, or do you just do raw fetch calls on the API endpoints?


On Aug 8, 2024, at 1:14 PM, Travis Briggs <audiodude@gmail.com> wrote:

Vue.js is definitely a good option. I already had a lot of JavaScript experience, but I learned Vue at someone's recommendation for a wikimedia project and it was a great experience.

One quick tip that might help you: in the "old world" you might use jQuery or something to do AJAX requests (XHR). However, in modern browsers, the built-in `fetch` function is more than adequate for almost everything.

Also, I would highly recommend using create-vue to bootstrap your project, because it sets up all the complicated JavaScript "compilation" steps for you, and gives you commands so that you can just do "npm run build" and get a static site in a single directory.

Good luck!
-Travis

On Thu, Aug 8, 2024 at 8:36 AM Kimmo Virtanen <kimmo.virtanen@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,

Vue.js is afaik current choice.

-- Kimmo

On Thu, Aug 8, 2024 at 6:34 PM Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
I'm about to embark on building a client-side javascript tool intended to help with enwiki's [[WP:DYK]] process.  JS is not my strength (and what I do know about tooling is quite outdated) so I'm looking for advice on what's in common use in the WMF environment these days.  If I'm going to learn some new tools, I figure I might as well learn what folks here are using.  If only because it'll make it easier for me to mooch on other people for help :-)

As far as testing goes, I used to use JUnit.  I gather that's pretty old-hat by now.  What are you-all using?

And for app frameworks.  Angular?  React?  I hear Vie might be the new hotness?  I'm leaning more towards "easy to learn" vs "most powerful".
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