Introducing Nucleus Angular Rest

[Ryan Zec]

I would like to introduce the first early public release of a project I have been working on for the past couple of weeks called Nucleus Angular Rest (https://github.com/nucleus-angular/rest).  This is a part of a large collection of components I am building for AngularJS however, like the other components that will be released, this component has very few dependencies.

The library is located at https://github.com/nucleus-angular/rest, the readme has an intro and a set of starting documentation on how to install and use.

This library is still early and I am sure there are bugs I have yet to discover but if you find any, please submit them to the github issue tracker.  Also feel free to submit any feature requests or questions there too.

Also feel free to ask any questions here too.

[Ryan Zec]

I am pleased to announce the release of nucleus angular rest 0.3.0 (https://github.com/nucleus-angular/rest).  This release includes pretty much a complete rewrite of the foundation for models and repositories (about 90% of the code) which includes dropping support for IE 8.

The 0.2.x series included support for IE 8 however a valid issue was brought up (https://github.com/nucleus-angular/rest/issues/16) and that issue exists only because of IE 8's lack of support for defineProperty()/defineProperties().  We are now using those methods to expose the properties of the schema of the model as simple properties of the instance of the model instead of having to use get()/set() which resolves the issue brought up.

I think dropping IE 8 support will be better in the long run too.  The library will now be able to take advantage of more ES5 functionality that is supported in IE 9+ if the need arises in the future.

You can see the full change log on the github page.