Show HN: The Xing Framework, Rails API and Angular, Simplified

Show HN: The Xing Framework, Rails API and Angular, Simplified(xingframework.com)

28 points by shubber 10 years ago | 14 comments

leipert 10 years ago |

At first I thought that the framework is something by the social network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XING

IdahoEv 10 years ago | |

Yeah, the name's a coincidence ... no connection to the German social network.

rajangdavis 10 years ago |

Do you have any working examples of apps using the framework? I took a look at the Github repository for the project and didn't really see any, but I could easily have missed something.

I have made a couple of trivial Angular/Rails apps and I had a lot of fun using Rails as a backend with Angular consuming the API that I throw at it. Was just curious to see how the framework could possibly add to the experience.

IdahoEv 10 years ago | |

For a production app, see https://yoric.co/home, but i'm afraid we can't share the code.

For examples, there's a tutorial walkthrough in the book, which we will be continuing to expand for the next few weeks. (https://xingframework.gitbooks.io/the-xing-framework/content...)

rajangdavis 10 years ago | | |

Saw your response to hello_newman and checked it out. More interested in the code (and its organization) than the finalized app, but I will check out the tutorial when I get some free time.

Thanks for being so responsive, looking forward to building something with your framework sometime soon!

hello_newman 10 years ago |

This is awesome, and something I would use a lot. Do you have any examples/code of projects using this?

IdahoEv 10 years ago | |

https://yoric.co is built on a prerelease version of Xing Framework, but the code is proprietary.

There's a tutorial in the book (https://xingframework.gitbooks.io/the-xing-framework/content...), which is small to start but we are actively expanding.

yonibot 10 years ago |

Interesting (unusual?) choice of a hypermedia API structure. Were you having a lot of issues with RESTful APIs?

torspo 10 years ago |

Is backend/db/migrate/ empty on purpose?

Rake initialize crashes at db:seed.

torspo 10 years ago | |

solved.

IdahoEv 10 years ago |

As a project manager, I've used this in two projects over the last year (of four done through our company). If you have questions or thoughts I'm here to help.

chaostheory 10 years ago |

Angular or Angular 2, or both?

IdahoEv 10 years ago | |

It's Angular 1.4 at the moment - the project was started well before A2 had anything like a coherent direction for its API. Releasing an Angular 2-compatible version is one of our top priorities for the next surge of development.

That said, Xing uses Hannah Howard's module A1Atscript (https://github.com/hannahhoward/a1atscript) to add a very Angular 2-like TypeScript annotation syntax, including A2-like component architecture.

That should make Xing apps much easier to translate to Angular 2 than other Angular 1.X apps.