https://github.com/radex/goldengate

https://github.com/radex/goldengate

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/radex/goldengate
• Owner: radex
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-11-15T13:06:27.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-05-02T09:19:27.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-29T03:47:00.808Z (12 days ago)
• Language: Swift
• Homepage:
• Size: 457 KB
• Stars: 22
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 9
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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Goldengate

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Goldengate intends to be a replacement for Cordova/PhoneGap on iOS and Mac. Why? Cordova is designed with the assumption that you don't want to know anything about native app development — and that is just plain annoing to me.

## Features

- built with WKWebView, Swift & CoffeeScript

- works on iOS and Mac

- very lightweight (no support for legacy systems, etc.)

- asynchronous calls using Promises, not callbacks

- (WIP) nice syntax for calling plugins from JS: `Goldengate.PluginName.method(args)`

- (WIP) a compatibility layer for importing existing Cordova plugins

## Issues

At the moment, Goldengate is (and can be) only a proof of concept, because WKWebView can't load web pages from the app bundle. This [has been fixed on the upstream repo](http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/174029/trunk/Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/API/Cocoa/WKWebView.h), but it's possible that the necessary API won't be added until OS X 10.11 / iOS 9.

Idea to try: according to [this tweet](https://twitter.com/wkwebview/status/540914015934107648), WKWebView can load local files from /tmp. Can we try making a tmp directory at launch and copying the needed files there?

## Dependencies/setup

Xcode project requires Xcode 6.1 running on OS X 10.10. The web component requires CoffeeScript (accessible globally via `coffee` command).

You need [Pow](http://pow.cx) to serve the web page locally (as noted above, WKWebView can't load from app bundle). Point `~/.pow/goldengate` to the GoldengateJS directory. Alternatively, if you're using a different web server, edit the URL in AppDelegate.swift

If you're working on the web component, be sure to run the watcher script (`./watch` from GoldengateJS) beforehand. It will listen to changes in CoffeeScript files and compile them.

## Contributing

If this sounds like something you'd want for yourself, please feel free to contribute and open a pull request. There's a bunch of open issues you can choose from. And if you want to talk about the project some more, [email me](mailto:[email protected])