On 9/19/2017 12:00 PM, gkk gb wrote:
Our sweet spot is single page applications.
We are not a great fit for ... multi-page applications.
Can anyone expand on the above comment? Like Flex, isn't FlexJS geared towards
enterprise applications that are fairly complex, where HTML is not a good fit?
I didn't see a response yet. I'm not sure what needs expanding.
Most "HTML5" applications are intended to be single page
applications. that means you reload data from the server and redraw
parts of the screen as appropriate without reloading the page. This is
exactly the same type of applications we built with Flex. They are
built on a services based architecture. So, click a button or link,
often a REST service is called, the data is returned and the UI is
updated. Gmail is a good example of this.
A multi-page application means that everytime you click a link, a new
page is loaded. Each page is like it's own separate application. Often
the server software (Java, .NET, ColdFusion, PHP, whatever) will often
make calls directly to the database, turn it into HTML, and return that
HTML to the browser. Amazon.com is a good example of a multi-page
application.
They are two fundamentally different paradigms for application
development.
The JQuery framework comes from the multi-page application days, but
can be used today to build out single page applications too. Angular,
Vue, React, FlexJS, and even Flex are all designed for single page
applications.
All of this is completely independent of the ability of any given
framework to build complex Enterprise applications.
Does that help clarify?
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