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• Configuration
• Layout
• API
• Browser scripts (for pages)
• Pages
• Scripts
• Styles
• Controllers

Avoid downloading unnecessary data when installing Aero.

Tested with 48.0.2552.0 (google-chrome-unstable).
Page reload causes LiveReload to crash.

This issue might be related:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=51687

For now, Aero shouldn't crash when this happens.

Example:

• page.get.js
• page.post.js

These files wouln't need to include the controller object & function boilerplate:

module.exports = {
    get: function(request, response) {
        response.end('Hello World')
    }
}

So the content of page.get.js would simply be the bare minimum:

response.end('Hello World')

The only problem is how request and response should be named since this is very opinionated.
Personally I prefer to not use abbreviations because we have autocomplete for a reason. So I'd go with the names I just mentioned.

Implementation

page.get.js should simply be compiled into a module that exports the get function. The get function is then assigned to the either existing or automatically created controller object.

Stylus compilation to CSS.

http://hjson.org/
https://www.npmjs.com/package/hjson

Use a very high-level definition of what Aero is doing in aero.run() using Promises and emit the event "ready" when everything finished.

Load JSON file for the layout and send the data to Jade.

Should automatically check the JSON output from pages that send back JSON.

Global scripts used on every page should be in the scripts directory. Compilation order is determined by the configuration file.

Support routing with regular expressions.

Each folder specified in the "static" array in the configuration should serve static files.

Optional:

• cached with gzip compression
• automagically watched by Aero

Need a dependency graph and update all files that depend on the changed file.
Or...plan B...just update all pages...

If there is a JSON file it should be automatically loaded and added to the locals of the jade template render.

Aero should scan subdirectories for controllers and add them to the router.

Currently they're included in Aero but they should really be external npm modules.

Something like:

require(`aero-${pluginName}`).init()

Support for pages without controllers.

https://xooyoozoo.github.io/yolo-octo-bugfixes/#moscow&webp=s&bpg=s

Sometimes only 14 tests are run and it incorrectly reports that the build is passing.
This needs to be fixed asap.

Seriously, 5 characters is too much.

Maybe HSON or HON. I like HSON because it makes it very obvious that it's JSON related, however the letters don't make much sense (Human Scripting Object Notation?). Well screw the meaning, it looks better.

Scoped styles are an anti-pattern for rendering performance.
It's better to properly use CSS classes instead of relying on the scoped attribute because recalculating styles on an AJAX request is bad for performance.

Therefore page styles are going to be global soon.
You should still put them into the page directory because you'll want all related components in one place.

Need to think of a better plugin architecture.
Luckily this is the only plugin affected because the others are really simple.

The server and aero.get() should support custom routes.
That means that you can associate /very/special/route with a request handler.

Styles that can be used on every page should be in the styles directory.
Compilation order is determined by the configuration file.

Test if passport works normally with Aero.

We need a middleware architecture.
Middleware that works with frameworks like Express should work with Aero as well.

Style file for the layout.

gzip compression should be enabled by default.

Support for pages that use controllers only (e.g. REST APIs).

Should automatically set headers.
Only available on pages without templates.

This could be realized via websockets.

Add a layout system.

https://github.com/postcss/autoprefixer
https://github.com/jenius/autoprefixer-stylus

Use an online HTML 5 validator to warn the user about validation errors.

https://w3c.github.io/manifest/

Add a default style called "reset" which will be used if reset.styl has not been found in the styles directory of the project. It should include a pretty standard HTML 5 reset.

Support HTTP/2 via the http2 module.

https://github.com/laktak/hjson-js currently has a bug that prevents loading its own stringified data.
A workaround is to add a newline character to the end of the file or input.