Make pioneer widgets modular

[buob]

I want to be able to require a certain class outside of cucumber

[samccone]

yes, we talked about how to do this IRL, it will require a change to the pioneer build phase and a but of shuffling around of the classes, however it should not be so hard. @buob are you interested in doing this?

[buob]

Sure. Let's leave it unassigned for now though in case someone else gets to it before I do.

[samccone]

Would you like to outline the approach here so that someone else could possibly pick this up. Currently the issue does not really explain the Why or How very well.

[buob]

Why?

The most valuable part of pioneer is the widget abstraction. I should be able to use that separate from all of the runner, gherkin, etc. pieces. For example, in my plain old javascript file, something like:

module.exports = require('pioneer/widget').extend({
    root: '.foo',

    welcomeMessage: function() {
      return this.find('.welcome');
    }
});

How?

Alter the build so that it builds each component separately, and then in the cucumber side of things, require those and invoke them.

[samccone]

yep 👍 this is the way to do it