I concur. Without GWT, I would be working in the NPM universe. Yuck! On Friday, December 6, 2024 at 5:15:53 PM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote:
> Well said. > > I started with GWT at its birth. > > Being able to write the frontend in Java is what attracted me, which was a > very strong desire of mine at the time. > > Since then GWT has evolved, > probably inspiring development of other frameworks with ability to write > the frontend in Java > and even though DevMode has started becoming difficult to maintain, > unfortunately pointing to its retirement as a discouraged practice, the > principles are still sound and the pure Java advantage remains a strong > motivation in my view. > > Thanks GWT & Maintainers! > > On Friday, 6 December 2024 at 22:22:33 UTC Craig Mitchell wrote: > > 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/0b5c65c9-510c-4b52-91d5-d16affcc5fban%40googlegroups.com.
