some thoughts

[RestfulBlue]

Currently we was thinking about implementing interface for configuring druid indexing tasks. Firstly, i was trying to discover sources in main druid repo, but then i find out this repo.
and i have few questions :

1. why did this druid-console is not included in main repository?
2. did this version of console included in druid releases?
3. what do you think about to moving to some modern stack, like webpack+ts
4. what do you think about replacing angularjs( which is really old) with react or vue?
   i think ui of druid can have really big potential, for example add permission management and configuring kafka ingestion(flatten/transformation/columns,etc).
   But currently this repo looks some kind outdated. ts and react or vue is widely used this times, and it will be much easier for community to work on this ui.

also this repo contains very much stuff what can be done using IDE. for example here is watch task, which did running using bash script 😕(it is like running java application for debug using bash script) also such things make this repo platform dependent and working on ui under windows is not possible ( btw, druid is simple to debug/compile under windows, only tar task in distribution is not builded)

[gianm]

Hi @RestfulBlue, I have been speaking with @vogievetsky about starting a new TypeScript + React based console and putting the sources in the main Druid repo. So I hope that we will have something to contribute soon.