Someone in one of our meetings mentioned that Twig is a PHP
implementation of Mustache. This doesn't seem to be the case though.
We need a templating solution that works both on the server and the
client.

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Trevor Parscal <tparscal@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Thanks for summarizing the meeting Jon.
>
> So, let's get Twig/Swig into core then, eh? :)
>
> - Trevor
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Jon Robson <jrobson@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> Shahyar, Juliusz, Trevor, Kaldari, Roan and I sat down yesterday and
>> talked about the future of skins. Hopefully this mail summarises what
>> we talked about and what we agreed on. Feel free to add anything, or
>> ask any questions in the likely event that I've misinterpreted
>> something we talked about or this is unclear :)
>>
>> Specifically we talked about how we are unhappy with how difficult it
>> currently is for developers to create a skin. The skin class involves
>> too many functions and does more than a skin should do e.g. manage
>> classes on the body, worry about script tags and style tags.
>>
>> Trevor is going to create a base set of widgets, for example a list
>> generator to generate things like a list of links to user tools. The
>> widgets will be agnostic to how they are rendered - some may use
>> templates, some may not.
>>
>> We identified the new skin system will have two long term goals:
>> 1) We would like to get to the point where a new skin can be built by
>> simply copying and pasting a master template and writing a new css
>> file.
>> 2) Should be possible for us in future to re-render an entire page via
>> JavaScript and using the modern history push state re-render any page
>> via the API. (Whether we'd want to do this is another consideration
>> but we would like to have an architecture that is powerful enough to
>> support such a thing)
>>
>> As next steps we agreed to do the following:
>>
>> 1) Trevor is going to build a watch star widget on client and server.
>> We identified that the existing watch star code is poorly written and
>> has resulted in MobileFrontend rewriting it. We decided to target this
>> as it is a simple enough example that it doesn't need a template. It's
>> small and contained enough that we hope this will allow us to share
>> ideas and codify a lot of those. Trevor is hoping to begin working on
>> this the week of the 2nd September.
>>
>> 2) We need a templating system in core. Trevor is going to do some
>> research on server side templating systems. We hope that the
>> templating RFC [1] can get resolved however we are getting to a point
>> that we need one as soon as possible and do not want to be blocked by
>> the outcome of this RFC, especially given a mustache based templating
>> language can address all our current requirements.
>>
>> [1]
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/HTML_templating_library
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