Yeah, I pretty much agree with you. I’ve gone the other way and don’t use 4D at all. Just Wakanda and Angular.
Adding 4D to the mix makes it hard to develop the business case for it. What I would say is if you want a web interface don’t use Wakanda Studio to develop it. Wakanda Studio is really now just a prototyping tool. Use Wakanda Server. It’s really really good. But use some other framework for the client side. I can recommend Angular (i.e. Angular 2) but there are other frameworks. Best regards Chris > On 17 Feb. 2017, at 8:43 pm, Douglas Cryer via 4D_Tech <[email protected]> > wrote: > > When Wakanda was first released and the 4D mobile concept came about I got > really excited as I like you thought of all the small functions that I could > publish like little dashboards, public information, company news. I was > never thinking lets re-write thousands of screens for internal users but via > a web page. > > But like you I quickly realised that the licence cost made this type of > publication non viable. For the type of function I would want to use I > would, in many cases, I have an unknown user base. > > I thought that as I had already purchased a web server license and in some > cases also a web services license that I would have access to the nice 4D > Mobile REST services. I stated 4 years ago and I still believe it today that > the decision that they made on licensing has held back adoption of the 4D > Mobile and Wakanda projects. I simply have not been able to make a business > case for its use. Whereas if it had been a simple license add on then I > would have been able to buy the connector and buy the Wakanda developer kit > and add the cost to the annual maintenance bill. > > What I have done instead is use 4D’s web server and develop my own mini apps > to hang off it. My next project longer term project which I just started is > to deliver a RESTful interface for a number of tables and functions so other > people can do the pretty front end bit and I can concentrate on the data. > > Regards, Dougie > ________________________________________________________ > > telekinetix Limited- J. Douglas Cryer > Phone : 01234 761759 Mobile : 07973 675 218 > 2nd Floor Broadway House, 4-6 The Broadway, Bedford MK40 2TE > Email : [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Web : > http://www.telekinetix.com <http://www.telekinetix.com/> > ________________________________________________________ > > > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:[email protected] > ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
