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Really excited about Portals. I work on a web app which was originally built with Spine.js (an MVC framework similar to Backbone). We've long moved on to React

Really excited about Portals. I work on a web app which was originally built with Spine.js (an MVC framework similar to Backbone). We've long moved on to React and Redux but have a few old views that have yet to be ported over. Portals seems like a nice way to refactor by incrementally replacing controller + template logic with components. I'm also glad to see the switch to MIT license if only to put this patents controversy behind us. Now curious to see what happens with GraphQL...

tootie 9y ago
I had a serious cringe reaction to seeing that term. I hope that the web 1.0 portal concept is sufficiently dead and buried that we can now rebrand "portal" to something useful.
jamier1978 9y ago
We are in the same position, except with backbone instead of spine. Nice idea for a use case of portals.
yasserkaddour 9y ago
Yeay! GraphQL specification has been relicensed minutes ago to Open Web Foundation Agreement, graphql-js and relay to MIT. Great stuff from Facebook today. https://medium.com/@leeb/relicensing-the-graphql-specification-e7d07a52301b https://medium.com/@leeb/relicensing-the-graphql-specificati... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15340528 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15340528
qaq 9y ago
How exactly does it put patent controversy behind us? Before you had limited patent grant now you have none
- brlewis 9y ago
  Because now it's exactly like every other piece of open source software, so lawyers can stop debating whether it's better or worse than an implicit grant.
  - qaq 9y ago
    Like every other piece of OS software that is known to be covered by patents
    - brlewis 9y ago
      Just because software is not known to be covered by patents doesn't mean you don't have to worry about software patents.
- abritinthebay 9y ago
  It doesn't - but it does make lawyers fret less. It's also more compatible (which, tbh, is actually more important practically) and that was the main problem with the whole Apache thing.
duckfruit 9y ago
Portals are like one of those ideas (like all great ideas) that are incredibly useful but seem obvious in retrospect. Thank you facebook and the react team for all your hard work!

tootie 9y ago

I had a serious cringe reaction to seeing that term. I hope that the web 1.0 portal concept is sufficiently dead and buried that we can now rebrand "portal" to something useful.

jamier1978 9y ago

We are in the same position, except with backbone instead of spine. Nice idea for a use case of portals.

yasserkaddour 9y ago

Yeay! GraphQL specification has been relicensed minutes ago to Open Web Foundation Agreement, graphql-js and relay to MIT. Great stuff from Facebook today. https://medium.com/@leeb/relicensing-the-graphql-specification-e7d07a52301b https://medium.com/@leeb/relicensing-the-graphql-specificati... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15340528 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15340528

qaq 9y ago

How exactly does it put patent controversy behind us? Before you had limited patent grant now you have none

brlewis 9y ago
Because now it's exactly like every other piece of open source software, so lawyers can stop debating whether it's better or worse than an implicit grant.
- qaq 9y ago
  Like every other piece of OS software that is known to be covered by patents
  - brlewis 9y ago
    Just because software is not known to be covered by patents doesn't mean you don't have to worry about software patents.
abritinthebay 9y ago
It doesn't - but it does make lawyers fret less. It's also more compatible (which, tbh, is actually more important practically) and that was the main problem with the whole Apache thing.

duckfruit 9y ago

Portals are like one of those ideas (like all great ideas) that are incredibly useful but seem obvious in retrospect. Thank you facebook and the react team for all your hard work!