@alandipert: would you be so kind as to make a build for hoplon/brew? Or is there a way I can do that?

@jumblerg: how do you push to clojars for hoplon/ui?

@flyboarder I think we just need to add you to Hoplon clojars org, if you aren't already

I can do that later tonight

cool thanks!

Is it possible to use Hoplon/Javelin as a front-end for an API developed on Phoenix/Elixir?

sure!

our first application was built as a front end for a php application

@micha great! Newbie here. (1) How would I link the "cells" to the Phoenix/Elixir API for state updates? (2) can you point to tuts I should look at to do this?

@wengi: take a look at the hoplon/brew firebase stuff, it is similar in concept

@flyboarder: thanks. I just checked https://github.com/hoplon/brew/blob/master/src/hoplon/firebase.cljs.hl. It looks like I need to create several helper functions to convert the elixir data into a clj data structure. (1) Is this the primary work necessary? (2) Is there anything else I need to consider to make this work?

@wengi My usual process for external libs is to write something that interacts with the API and returns Clojure data then write a lib that interacts with javelin

@wengi interaction w/ a server works the same w/out a clj backend that it would in a typical ajax situation

you make ajax requests to the server and your callback is called w/ a json payload. to use with cells, reset! or swap! that payload into a cell

since json data is a subset of what cljs supports, you can stick with json and go far

the advantage of using cells in this situation is that your client-side logic is associated with cells, and dissociated from the timing of the ajax response

a level of indirection is provided

altho, it's not a bad idea to look at how https://github.com/hoplon/castra works. it might be a good way to organize and implement your ajax endpoints in elixir

@flyboarder @alandipert : thanks for the tips!

:thumbsup:

has anybody tried using hoplon with http://nightcoders.net yet ?

just did - it totally works

oh wait

yup - definitely works

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12379861/Screenshots/c847ae90-4a50-41dd-bfb4-e6a01110e607.png