Support for Drupal 7 is ending on 5 January 2025—it’s time to migrate to Drupal 10! Learn about the many benefits of Drupal 10 and find migration tools in our resource center.I was thinking today that it would be nice if the Aegir UI did more without page refreshes.
We have the (slightly buggy) task queue listing and the task log, but not a huge amount more.
It would be good to:
- Refactor those into a single system for getting updated 'state' of the admin UI to make them less buggy
- Change as many of the timestamps on the site as possible to be sent to the browser as full dates, but then (optionally) process them into nicer time strings where appropriate, like the Drupal.org issue queues do now.
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Comment #2
Steven Jones CreditAttribution: Steven Jones at ComputerMinds commentedComment #3
Jon PughAbsoLUTELY.
This is a key improvement to the product. I ended up implementing my own tasks ajax checks in devshop: https://github.com/opendevshop/devmaster/blob/1.x/modules/devshop/devsho... and https://github.com/opendevshop/devmaster/blob/1.x/modules/devshop/devsho...
I also recently added the timeago.jquery plugin which works great: you output a UTF datestamp and it updates them all dynamically: https://github.com/opendevshop/devmaster/blob/1.x/themes/boots/js/boots....
We should look into one of these "front-end frameworks" for this, like ember or react.
Comment #4
realityloopWe had started making a Bootstrap based theme at one stage, I'll see if we can find that code..
Comment #5
Jon PughI've done some work over at #2212149: Improve task queue AJAX refresh.
After trying out just about every front end framework, Vue.js seems like the simplest, most unobtrusive I could find.
I'm going to save the technical explanations for that issue.