Major changes: panic client and server have been separated into two separate projects. This prevents a bunch of overhead if you're installing panic on each machine you're testing against. It also helps with separation of concerns and prevents assumptive tests.
Another major change: express was becoming complicated quick for what I needed. Instead of trying to re-implement websockets over http, I'm switching over to socket.io to allow for easier full duplex data streams.
Many of the patches weren't necessary when client code was removed (like Function.parse, Object.keys, Gun extensions, etc.)
After discussing the goals for panic more with Mark and Sean, I decided to take panic in a different direction. Previously, the interface used an options object to do test setup, and was completely declarative in nature. In order to do more complex things with the framework, it would have needed new features hacked into the existing one, without a solid, well tested foundation to build on. That was a bit frightening. As radical as it was, I decided to mostly rewrite the framework to be similar to a traditional test framework (such as jasmine or mocha), with a major twist - it will send your tests out to the connected clients to be run, and you can filter which platforms/peer IDs to run on. Since the approach is more imperative, it will be more verbose, but it also allows for faster scaling, ease of adding new features, more expressive/flexible tests, greater coverage, and approachable syntax.
With luck, panic will be around for quite some time. If that's the case, it really, really needs high test coverage, so I began with jasmine from the start. In addition, who's going to trust results from an untested test framework?
You can now boot up tests from the homepage using the UI. It's powered by jQuery.
The tests are now using the latest, greatest version of gun, v0.3.
Files now organized into folder "lib" for clarity and cleanliness.
Numerous code cleanliness improvements.
Now, if errors are passed to the acknowledgement listener, they're pushed to an array of errors on that request.
Now each time there's a response, the statistics are recalculated and are passed to an optional progress callback.
Patch.js now has stronger type checking against the data it's been given.
Added more polyfills to aid in development, like wrapping console.log in a closure to bypass the console interface error.
The timeout accuracy and code clarity has been improved.
Server is now upgraded to use gun@0.3, and the level options have been better tailored to the application.
Exposed a function named "test" that takes an options object, with things like how many gun requests to fire in total, what data to send, where to put it, what peers to connect to, etc...
Exposed a Browser constructor that opens up a new window and runs the test function with the options provided, returning an interface to the window.
Added a patch function to validate the option input and provide defaults where there aren't any values.
