Meteor.js - Webix UI integration

This is work in progress on integrating Meteor.js, the best full-stack JavaScript framework (see why) and Webix, arguably the best UI widgets library (see an extensive comparison on StackOverflow).

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Webix standalone admin app demo

Meteor-Webix Demo

• CRUD example • source • Meteor DevShop talk
• Examples from the Webix team: Meteor-centrix example, Webix-centric example

Usage

Get started by adding the webix:webix package and a skin. For example, to add the default skin:

meteor add webix:webix
meteor add webix:skin-flat

If you use Font Awesome icons, or have sortable tables or other UI components that need Font Awesome icons, install Font Awesome as well:

meteor add fortawesome:fontawesome

Use Meteor collections as usual and simply specify webix.proxy('meteor', Collection|Cursor) for the url and save properties of the component:

Movies = new Mongo.Collection('movies');

webix.ui({
  view: 'datatable',
  autoconfig: true,
  editable: true,
  url:  webix.proxy('meteor', Movies.find()),
  save: webix.proxy('meteor', Movies)
});

Learn more

• Webix Quickstart - interactive tutorial
• Getting started with Webix - documentation
• webix-meteor-data README - the Meteor - Webix adapter
• webix on GitHub

What works

• package tests (font loading via skins, visual check)
• load and save data to/from reactive DataTable, List, and other widgets backed by linear data structures

Needs testing

• paging
• dynamic data loading
• hierarchical widgets (Tree, TreeTable)

TODO

• clean up and merge the disparate Webix repos
• map nested objects onto Webix forms (#10)
• client-side error messages on failed server operations via Collection.deny
• review
  • Webix wrapper for Meteor/Blaze reactive templates
  • routing
• persist order of List/DataTable elements reordered via drag-and-drop (similar to rubaxa:sortable)
• reactive Multiview, similar to templates:tabs

Licensing

Meteor package author: Dan Dascalescu (@dandv)

Acknowledgments: the Webix team, and especially Maksim Kozhukh (@mkozhukh) - the developers of the webix-meteor-data adapter.

Webix is (C) 2013-2015 XB Software and is available under commercial and GPLv3 licenses. A license exemption for non-GPL software is being worked on.

This Webix package for Meteor is published under the MIT license.

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