zulip/static/shared
Greg Price 71596648c2 typing_status: Switch sentinel "recipient" value to `null`.
This feels a bit more semantically appropriate: it more clearly says
"here's some information: there is no (relevant) recipient", rather
than "no information available".  (Both `null` and `undefined` in JS
can have either meaning, but `undefined` especially commonly means
the latter.)

Concretely, it ensures a bit more explicitness where the value
originates: a bare `return;` becomes `return null;`, reflecting the
fact that it is returning a quite informative value.

Also make the implementation more explicit about what's expected here,
replacing truthiness tests with `!== null`.  (A bit more idiomatic
would be `!= null`, which is equivalent when the value is well-typed
and a bit more robust to ill-typing bugs.  But lint complains about
that version.)
2019-10-24 14:56:56 -07:00
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js typing_status: Switch sentinel "recipient" value to `null`. 2019-10-24 14:56:56 -07:00
README.md shared: Set up a way to share some frontend code with the mobile app. 2019-10-17 16:48:23 -07:00
package.json shared: Set up a way to share some frontend code with the mobile app. 2019-10-17 16:48:23 -07:00

README.md

The files in this subtree are part of the Zulip web frontend, and are also incorporated by the Zulip mobile app.

Note that the deployment cycles are different:

  • In the webapp, this code is deployed in the same way as the rest of the web frontend: it's part of the server tree, and the browser gets it from the server, so the client is always running the same version the server just gave it.

  • In the mobile app, this code is deployed in the same way as the rest of the mobile app: it's bundled up into the app binary which is uploaded to app stores and users install on their devices. The client will be running the version built into their version of the mobile app, which may be newer, older, or simply different from the version on the server.

    The mobile app always refers to a specific version of this code; changes to this code will appear in the mobile app only after a commit in the mobile app pulls them in.