MOmoondowner·Apr 10, 2014
The render tree document is pretty interesting https://github.com/Famous/guides/blob/master/dev/2014-04-09-...
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| Apr 10, 03:00 | 2014-04-10 03:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-10 04:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Apr 10, 04:00 | 2014-04-10 04:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-10 05:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 10, 05:00 | 2014-04-10 05:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-10 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 10, 06:00 | 2014-04-10 06:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-10 07:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Apr 10, 07:00 | 2014-04-10 07:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-10 08:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Apr 10, 08:00 | 2014-04-10 08:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-10 09:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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4 sourcesThe docs (gudes) are on GitHub too: https://github.com/Famous/guides/tree/master/dev
In Famo.us is now open sourceReleasing collapsed git histories when going public is not without precedence. See the initial public commits from meteor, react and angular:
https://github.com/meteor/meteor/commit/d69c2d1f198ab08a26a2...
https://github.com/facebook/react/commit/75897c2dcd1dd3a6ca4...
https://github.com/angular/angular.js/commit/c9c176a53b1632c...
We had a reason for doing so. From now on all future development will be out in the open. The docs specifically were supposed to be made available without logging in, but we were short on time. They nicely designed docs will be made available tomorrow. In the meantime, there are guides available in the https://github.com/famous/guides repo and all the source is JSdoc-ed. Check out the code and try making something with it.
disclaimer: I work for famo.us.
In Famo.us is now open sourceA lot of the links from the repo README are broken or in an invite-only area. The main docs I've seen are the markdown guides here:
https://github.com/Famous/guides
The biggest disappointment is what seems like less-than-rock-solid desktop browser support. Support for iOS and Android only with "Broader support for more browsers is coming"?? (After all the discussion of not releasing until everything is rock solid?) I noticed it with some of the initial demos that didn't allow you to rotate the element chart using your mouse, but it worked fine on an iPad. For all the talk of 3d, I don't see anything on par with a three.js in the source.
Seems like React + a physics engine...
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