[susi22]

Has anybody in the client side community ever made the connection to rules engines?

This flow of logic is awfully close to how a rule engine works. I wonder if people will at some point arrive at it.

There isn't a whole lot of rules engine in JS. Just nools [1] which is huge. I'd love to see a very simple forward chaining rule engine + Immutable + React and see how that would work out.

My guess is that they aren't popular at all because they have the notion of being enterprisey (Drools/Jboss). I'm a big fan of them. They /can/ make life & code very nice and elegant. Maybe somebody writes an JS adapter to clara rules [2].

[1] https://github.com/C2FO/nools

[2] https://github.com/rbrush/clara-rules

[tel]

I would like to see a series of examples in the use of rules engines. I've worked in several places where people brought them up as suggestions, but their "enterprisey" brand made them harder sells.

[robmcm]

"My guess is that they aren't popular at all because they have the notion of being enterprisey"

You have to wait a while before the JS community realise that enterprisey is just the inevitable end game of their wheel re-inventing.

In the same way they dismiss things they don't understand now due to complexity, they are adding more and more with all these frameworks and architectures.

Nothings new, everythings a remix. I imagine rules engines will be the next "revolution" on this already well trodden road.

[petethomas]

I'm not aware of a JS adapter for clara rules but per the wiki it does offer ClojureScript support "with a couple constraints"[1]

[1] https://github.com/rbrush/clara-rules/wiki/ClojureScript