The Coral.js framework originated with the development of the 3.0 version of the lockerdome.com site and embeds. Coral.js enabled LockerDome's developers to rapidly build out the new front-end for LockerDome 3.0. After the release of LockerDome 3.0 Coral.js continued to power the lockerdome.com site and embeds and evolve over time to fit the needs of LockerDome.
As part of the process of open sourcing the Coral.js framework, the commit history had to be wiped. This document is an abridged history of the contributions of those involved before the open source release to make up for having to wipe the commit history.
Perrin Westrich (@CrypticSwarm) and Mouna Apperson (@nick-apperson)
- Designed and developed the initial version of the framework, which was utilized by the development team to rapidly develop the front-end for the LockerDome 3.0 release
Perrin Westrich (@CrypticSwarm)
- Optimizations, improvements and cleanups for the generated code
- Improved validations performed by static code analysis
- Emitted event support
- Various improvements and fixes
Preston Skupinski (@pskupinski)
- Usability improvements (showWhen elements, computed variables, dynamic element list single option "item" syntax, implicit parameters)
Mouna Apperson (@nick-apperson)
- Optimizations for generated code
Preston Skupinski (@pskupinski)
- Wrote computable IR layer and reworked framework around the computable IR layer. Wrote packed args style front-end code gen. Wrote update cycle management layer based around zones. Architecture guidance by Mouna Apperson (@nick-apperson).
Harry Gallagher (@harrygallagher4)
- Bug fixes in base computable
- Wired up initial optimizations that operate on the computable IR (drop unused scopes, drop unused computables, inlining single use scopes)
Chip Belpedio (@chipbroze)
- Framework bug fixes
- Improved validations performed by static code analysis
- Improved framework error messages to include context in terms of what element/model and reference when validation errors are run into on compile
Preston Skupinski (@pskupinski)
- Framework bug fixes
- Behavior improvements in cases many updates arrive in one update cycle for a single symbol
Chip Belpedio (@chipbroze)
- Wired up deps support for elements, allowing javascript and css files to be loaded on demand as part of the async initialization of the element
- Added optimization for pushing deps to shard roots
- Wired up aggregate shard support
Preston Skupinski (@pskupinski)
- Wired up initial sharding support
Chip Belpedio (@chipbroze)
- Framework bug fixes
- Optimizations for generated code
- Support for
isandfromparameter annotations - Reduced size of generated code
- Revamped inline single use scopes optimization
- Allow constant macro to work in template elements
- Improved error message handling across compiler to properly include context
- Wired up optimization to pushdown computables to scopes that use them when not used in original scope
Jeffrey Yoo (@screenshotjy)
- Improved validations performed by static code analysis
- Keyboard shortcut handling
- Output type introspection for computed variables and model functions, gives the static code analysis better insight on output types without a developer needing to manually specify the output type
- Inline trivial scopes optimization
Preston Skupinski (@pskupinski)
- Framework bug fixes
- Optimizations for generated code
Alexander Bolinsky (@abolinsky)
- Improved validations performed by static code analysis
- Cleaned up Observable change handlers on element cleanup when they are added in event handlers
Preston Skupinski (@pskupinski) and Margaret Liu (@margsliu)
- Remove usage of jQuery from the framework, replacing some behavior that was jQuery dependent with versions that did not rely on jQuery
Preston Skupinski (@pskupinski)
- Framework bug fixes
- Add support for reference lookups in path expressions for args
- Reworked environment handling to resolve shortcomings of prior implementation
Margaret Liu (@margsliu)
- Improved validations performed by static code analysis
- Framework bug fixes
- Updated checks and defaulting for whether parameter is considered invariant or not
unpackedparameter annotation
Margaret Liu (@margsliu)
- Wired up plugin architecture for the framework. Framework plugins can introduce functionality and customize the framework using hooks throughout the compilation process. This allowed LockerDome specific functionality to be pulled out of the core framework across any web project that could use a front-end framework. This marked the beginning of the framework being reusable. Architecture guidance by Preston Skupinski (@pskupinski).
- Pulled LockerDome specific functionality out of the core framework
Preston Skupinski (@pskupinski)
- Pulled LockerDome specific functionality out of the core framework
Preston Skupinski (@pskupinski)
- Framework bug fixes
- Code cleanups to bring the code base into a shape that is ready to open source
- Added features oriented around usability improvements. Notable features added were view expressions, two way binding in the view, async model functions, async computed variables, and a simple way to specify inline elements and models.
Margaret Liu (@margsliu)
- Cleaned up framework global allocation to only use a single Coral.js global, placing allocated symbols within that one global and moving various helpers onto that global
- Various error message improvements
- Pulled LockerDome specific functionality out of the core framework
Perrin Westrich (@CrypticSwarm)
- Cleaned up the IR generation code and hook manager code
- Pulled LockerDome specific functionality out of the core framework