gitlab-ui VS gitlab

Gitlab uses Vue on their UI Components. - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/tree/master/app/assets/javascripts - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/tree/master/app/assets/javascripts/vue_shared - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ui Bonus, Gitlab got some outstanding development documentation too! It's good. - https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/fe_guide/style/vue.html

If you're interested in if someone else uses this approach, the answer is yes. You can look at GitLab source code, for example.

I am not trying to start trouble, or a heated debate, but I did want to say that my experience was the same as OPs and I am also coming from a static typing background so that likely explains my having a similar experience and expectations. I did for sure use RubyMine for attempting a change, so not "vim and yolo" but rather world class tooling and trying to discern where any random symbol came from was oppressively hard

That's not even getting into attempting to use their "happy path" <https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/v18.2.1-ee/.gitp...> -> https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-development-kit#local which I found just incredibly challenging getting it to use my copies of the repos. But, just like in every one of these conversations, it's been a number of years since I tried it so maybe it's much better now

For more details, please check out gitlab templates

GitHub is also from them and brings the very same risks. The solution would be to build viable open source alternative but decentralized. GitLab Federation [1] or Forgejo (Codeberg) Federation [2] might be the answer.

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/6468

[2] https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/m...

There's another issue with a more complete proposal

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/216351

> The more typical way of doing this would be to call piece of the code but without the elaborate setup you argue you'd need.

But how do you call the code if you don't know where it's called from?

Let's have a concrete example. In this `initialize` method how do I know what the arguments are meant to be?

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/lib/gitla...

There's no type annotation so the main ways to know are documentation (haha) and seeing what it is called with in existing code. But how do you find where that method is called?

(Note this isn't the best example because I would imagine the `initialize` isn't magically generated, but it is still difficult to search for so it's almost as bad as the magic identifiers.)

The missing feature is federation! In my view, centralized structures like a giant source repository such as github are something we as a developer community need to avoid. Unfortunately, features like federated merge requests in gitlab ( https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/14116 ) are something we've been waiting for for 9 years and nothing seems to be happening there. This feature alone would enable a lot of new collaboration without forcing everyone to work on a centralized system to use git - a decentralized versioning system - with high efficiency.

In case someone from Gitlab is watching: there is a long-standing issue that Gitlab Dependency Proxy does not work with containerd rewriting (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/350485), making it impossible to use as a generic Docker Hub mirror.

To add another link, I think this is the same issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/421396