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Instead of:

Goldengate.dispatch('Foo', 'bar', [args])

I'd like:

Goldengate.Foo.bar(args)

I don't think you can catch calls of undefined methods like that, so instead we have to pass the list of routes across the bridge at start — before any calls — and create those "classes" and methods.

All calls to Goldengate.dispatch create a Deferred object and save it onto a map. Problem is, if the call doesn't return anything, the Deferred stays there forever.

Unlikely to be a real problem in most applications, but a memory leak nonetheless.

If we do #1, the fix we'll be trivial — we'll know on JS side which methods never return a value and just never create or return the deferred.

At the moment, you can only pass simple values (numbers, booleans, strings), arrays and dictionaries/objects across the bridge to Swift. I think it would be useful to be able to pass a function as an argument. Sometimes you want to call JS from native code in response to some events or whatever. One way to do it is to hard-code JS method names in native plugins. But often it might be cleaner/easier to pass a reference to the function at caller site.

Downside is that it requires some additional processing on both sides of the bridge. We'd have to save the reference somewhere, give it a unique ID and code it in the passed arguments somehow — e.g. pass it as ['function', 123] (we'd have to code arrays as ['array', [...]] or something to disambiguate, which is a little silly)

Goldengate won't be a practical project if you have to rewrite all of your (and 3rd party) Cordova plugins to Goldengate.Plugins. It would be great to have some sort of a mechanism to map CDVPlugins to Goldengate plugins.

Some open questions:

• how to do this, exactly? Use of objc runtime will be probably needed to discover all methods.
• how to map return values to promises? With Cordova, you're essentially emitting a bit of JavaScript to call the callback function. Not very clean :(

I'm a little worried that albeit local URL loading was added, it won't ship until iOS 9. Even if they do ship it in iOS 8.2, OS X will surely have to wait until 10.11. That's kinda too long to wait.

Is it possible to (somehow!) work around this? Somehow fake a local server, perhaps? I doubt it's possible, but even if you can do it on one of the platforms, that's better than nothing.

The idea is that Goldengate is a very lightweight library, not a full-fledged framework with a plugin for everything. But I think it would be useful to include some common tasks into the "standard library",

• device info
• native app version
• status bar text color
• hide keyboard accessory view
• splash screen (for smooth transition; only remove splash screen from screen when app says it's fully ready)

I'll probably want to write some other things, like file IO, but perhaps it would be better to put them in a separate repo.