Thank you from me too! And if WASM was integrated into GWT, I'd be even more thankful. 😉
On Friday, 6 December 2024 at 4:49:05 pm UTC+11 Leon Pennings wrote: > Hey all, > > I would like to post this as an appreciation message how glad I am GWT > exists, and want to give props to the maintainers. > > I've first started GWT somewhere around 2007 when I joined a company that > was developing an application using GWT. > Initially I liked that GWT made it possible to write the frontend in Java. > Any integration issues between frontend and backend basically disappeared. > Everything was awesome until we had a code review on the generated > html/css on the frontend by a frontend specialist. > We got destroying on that review because we had a div explosion and the > html was non-functional, so not a good scenario for screenreaders (for > blind people). > So we hired that same specialist to setup the html structure with > accompanying css for the frontend. We then built GWT components to generate > that exact same structure, and used his css. > That turned out to be a very practical marriage. > The integration between ui and backend was still 100% java, we had compile > time validation in the IDE and in the build, and we were perfectly in line > with UI specs with a very functional html structure. Plus we could make > components do whatever we want. > > At one point we've made a network drawing tool with html5Canvas, all fully > developed with GWT. We had persons and entities draw themselves on a > canvas. And we've made animated dashboard widgets that way too. Fun part > was that the business could copy paste the widgets into their reports, as > it were images. > > Anyway I've been working this way ever since, with resident (or hired) > html specialists and designers designing the frontend structure, which we > would then develop to be able to generate the same from GWT. So far I know > of no other framework that provides this functionality. And if there is, I > doubt integration with Java is this simple. > Simplicity is a good way to achieve stability & predictability - so I'm a > happy person! > > Thanks GWT & Maintainers! > > Rg, > > Leon.. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit/250990f1-c979-4e5c-a97d-291f7df84410n%40googlegroups.com.
