[Buildbot] #3148: [AngularJS project] Optimised communication between backend and frontend

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#3148: [AngularJS project] Optimised communication between backend and frontend
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Reporter:  tardyp        |      Owner:
    Type:  project-idea  |     Status:  new
Priority:  major         |  Milestone:  0.9.+
 Version:  master        |   Keywords:  web
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 Communication between backend and frontend is a tricky problem.

 Web browser must get the current state of an object, and then register to
 a message queue to automatically update its internal model.

 A good prior art for such system is firebase:
 https://www.firebase.com/docs/

 Buildbot nine implement similar ideas in buildbotServices, but has a
 number of bottlenecks.

 - Based on restangular, the data is mixed-in with restangular methods,
 which prevents to walk over all attributes of a dictionary
 - There are race conditions between initial http get, and message queue
 updates, resulting in out of sync model
 - The data model being fully generic prevents adding some decoration to
 the model depending on the type. Example is email parsing of change_owner
 is made in several place (search emailRegex in the code)
 - Too much http requests are needed to make the system work

 Student will analyse current implement implementation, and propose changes
 to address those issues. Probably a full rewrite will be necessary.

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