Introduction

Onion is the web client for Ascribe. The idea is to have a well documented, easy to test, easy to hack, JavaScript application.

The code is JavaScript ECMA 6.

Getting started

Install some nice extensions for Chrom(e|ium):

• Allow-Control-Allow-Origin: we need this to open connection to external hosts (staging.ascribe.io in our case)
• React Developer Tools

git clone git@bitbucket.org:ascribe/onion.git
cd onion
npm install
npm run watch

python -mSimpleHTTPServer

Code Conventions

For this project, we're using:

• 4 Spaces
• We use ES6
• We don't use ES6's class declaration for React components because it does not support Mixins as well as Autobinding (Blog post about it)
• We don't use camel case for file naming but in everything Javascript related
• We use let instead of var: SA Post

Troubleshooting

Q: OMG nothing works A: try npm install. Someone may have updated some dependencies

Reading list

Start here

• ReactJS for stupid people
• Flux for stupid people
• ReactJS
• alt.js
• alt.js readme

Moar stuff

• ReactJS: Reusable Components
• 24ways.org: JavaScript Modules the ES6 Way
• Babel: Learn ES6
• egghead's awesome reactjs and flux tutorials
• Crockford's genious Javascript: The Good Parts (Tim has a copy)