ffffng/REFACTOR.md

Refactoring ideas

TODO

• Test email rendering!

Short term

• Integrate typescript in the build and start migrating the server code.
• Find a nice way to integrate typescript with grunt.
• Replace logging framework.
• Bluebird for promises?
• Yarn instead of NPM?

Mid term

• Typesafe db queries.
• Port complete server to typescript.
• Port the server code to promises and async / await.
• Use ES6 style imports instead of require.
• Store node data in database and export it for gateways.
• Write tests (especially testing quirky node data).
• Allow terminating running tasks via bluebirds cancellation.

Long term

• Rewrite the admin interface (used lib is unmaintained).
• Rewrite the client in typescript (+ vue?).
• Replace the grunt build system.
• Decentralize node data.