Current status of Upshot.js

Question

I am thinking of using upshot.js along with Knockout in one of my very important projects. I do not see any documentation or any activity around upshot. Before I commit to this decision, is this project still active?

If the entire asp.net stack is now open and one can see what is getting committed to repository, why this small library is still not on codeplex or github for community to see?

I hope this is still on radar of asp.net team.

Answer 1

According to this blog post, Upshot is officially dead: http://www.riaservicesblog.net/Blog/post/WCF-RIA-Services-is-Dead-Long-Live-WCF-RIA-Services.aspx

The author points to BreezeJS as an alternative: http://www.breezejs.com

Answer 2

Upshot is officially dead.

"Earlier this year the Beta version of Visual Studio 2012 included a template that was designed for building “single page applications” using Upshot.js and a special Web API-based DataController that provided support for insert, update, and delete operations using the unit of work pattern with transaction support. We are not currently continuing work on that template or Upshot.js. We want to first focus on improving the development experience with existing popular JavaScript libraries and in future versions we will revisit this decision and see if additional libraries are needed to round out the SPA experience."

http://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Roadmap

Answer 3

Give a shot to JayData at http://jaydata.org, it has JavaScript Language Query and JavaScript CRUD capabilities with change tracking, batches and a lot more. What it offers over BreezeJS is its provider agnostic architecture and a number of providers that you can use out of the box: OData, webSQL, IndexedDB, localStore, Facebook and YQL.

JayData plays nicely with NodeJS and let you consume OData from a JavaScript based middletier.

Also you can use JayData not only to consume but also to provide OData if you are using it on the server side with NodeJS and mongoDB.