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Orion/Planning Meeting/Target Users

Who is Orion's target user?

  • CSS users are very important. Many developers spending a lot of time doing CSS development and are not well served by existing tools.
  • Have a need for immediate feedback - tight edit/refresh cycle
  • Embed Orion in the site being built to allow in-situ development (mod_orion)
  • Server needs to be very easy to install
  • Use server locally for offline support

What do small web developers use today?

  • TextMate/Notepad
  • JQuery/PHP
  • Browser developer tools / Firebug
  • Various lint tools

Developers of Giant Apps

  • Need to be able to work on the site back end functionality as well as web front end
  • Develop/debug cycle flows through client and server code
  • HAML/SASS/LESS for build-time
  • Compression/Closure
  • JS Debuggers

Typical workflow:

  • Edit/Test/Run/Debug (no build/compression)
  • Package/deploy/Debug again (debugging deployed, packaged app)

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