Features to implement in core

[mdcfe]

As per Chaosthebot/Chaos#565, the general consensus seems to be to use Node.js for the core, so I've started to add to branch v2-pre-democracy with an initial base to work from.

Features to implement

• Self-updating from Chaos-Core repo
• Retrieving and updating components from specified repos
• Launching and restarting components from retrieved repos
• Tests (what frameworks?)
• Possibly others that I missed

@Chaosthebot/js-wizards

[andrewda]

As for tests, I love mocha and chai. Also istanbul/NYC for code coverage.

[PlasmaPower]

@andrewda Have you tried jest? It's like mocha+chai but better (multithreading tests for instance).

Edit: it also has an option builtin for code coverage.

[andrewda]

@PlasmaPower haven't used it but works for me!

[mdcfe]

I was about to suggest jest, mainly as it's one package and I think we should be trying to minimise our external dependencies. Definitely not because I haven't used mocha/chai much, but using new tools is part of the challenge of different devs contributing to ChaosBot anyway imo

[Swizz]

And jest is all included :

$ jest --coverage

[Redmega]

Agreed, jest is definitely the way to go.

As far as contributing to this, should we contribute to the v2-pre-democracy branch or should we create our own branches and open PRs to that one?

[andrewda]

Do we want to use some style guide like standard.js, Airbnb, etc.? Better to decide early.

[mdcfe]

@Redmega If you think the change might be controversial, open a PR, but if it's something simple or something that has already been agreed in an issue then I think it should be fine to commit directly to the branch.

[Swizz]

Do we want to use some style guide like standard.js, Airbnb, etc.? Better to decide early.

I personnaly use XO

[mdcfe]

@andrewda I prefer Airbnb personally, but I'm open to a vote if someone compiles a list of presets to vote on

[Redmega]

I'd say neither. Use prettier and be done with it. Just add some configuration to allow dangling underscores. I love me some dangling underscores.

Edit: Just checked out xo, looks cool. I wouldn't be averse to using that either.

[Swizz]

Lets try the new TJ things.

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[andrewda]

@Swizz that's actually awesome! Airbnb and prettier sound like the best options to me. Voting for prettier just because it requires less setup.

[PlasmaPower]

As soon as I saw "new TJ thing" I knew it would be awesome 😄

[mdcfe]

I'm not a fan of relying on code formatters personally - I'd much rather use ESLint to ensure that the code is kept consistent (prettier-eslint, though, looks quite appealing).