Separate PHP and JavaScript code

[ramonziai]

First of all, thanks for creating H5P and sharing it with the world!

Now the issue:

The docs (https://h5p.org/creating-your-own-h5p-plugin) state that the intention is to enable the development of H5P integrations in any programming language, and that as much as possible of the core library is JavaScript. This is great, but it's not reflected in the code structure yet. Instead, this repo with the core JS library has 'php' in its name and mixes PHP and JS parts (also subjecting them to the same license, see #16).

Moving the JS parts out of here would enable people to more easily build integrations for non-PHP platforms, and also reduce the impact of viral licensing for those who cannot accommodate such restrictions. A low-barrier first step could be to create a new repo, put the JS code there, and e.g. link it here as a git submodule so it can still be used as before.

What do you think?

[ramonziai]

Any opinions on this?

[SebastiaanKloos]

I think this would be awesome.

It looks like they don't use issues in Github that much unfortunately😔

[ramonziai]

@SebastiaanKloos That's too bad... Thanks for your feedback anyway 😄 Good to know other people are interested in this.

Is there another way of reaching the relevant developers?

[SebastiaanKloos]

@ramonziai I think they are more active on their public Jira board:
https://h5ptechnology.atlassian.net/projects/HFP/summary

[ramonziai]

@SebastiaanKloos Thanks a lot, didn't know about that!