Then you might consider who's going to maintain it when your not
available and what level of skill may be needed. Esoteric and cool
is... well esoteric and cool. Pragmatic and well worn and well known
might lead you to consider more mundane but well used tools especially
on the server side like PHP and MySQL and perhaps WordPress and the
thousands of themes and plugins. Many WP themes are responsive/mobile
friendly right out of the box saving tons of work - some premium some free.
Thanks
Robert C
On 7/1/13 9:11 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
One thing to consider is "mobile" .. i.e. do you want this to work
across a wide range of devices: phones, tablets, laptops etc. If so,
you'll need to consider various options for "responsive design", ..
i.e a design that automatically adjusts to the device and its screen
size. Ditto for "touch" vs "mouse" (good libraries for that).
If not, there are a few of us (Ben L. for example) who've used Angular
for a nice interface, including event binding and UI elements .. which
he integrated with Firebase (a web service syncing events and JSON
data across devices, very cool indeed).
You'll also need to consider the whole client/server thing .. how much
do you want to do on the client vs how much on the server. I've been
amazed recently how nifty nodejs is. I've had to use it for desktop
use recently, and am surprised how sophisticated it is. Ex: I've
replaced Make with Cake (a coffeescript/node stunt that gives you
pretty nice workflow tools).
DB, an issue, right? Firebase can help for fairly simply DBish tasks
.. think of JSON in the cloud. SimTable is successfully using it.
And there is a Node/CouchDB library.
Finally, if you really want to go hyper modern, consider JS all the
way. And a good tool is CoffeeScript which compiles down to JS and is
completely integrated into Node. Your code size (Lines of Code) will
be about 1/3 native JS.
-- Owen
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Gary Schiltz
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I'm starting to develop (as an unpaid volunteer) an application
for the local medical clinic, and I'd like to deploy it as a
browser application ("rich internet app"). Of course, I cold just
use plain old HTML and CSS, but I'd like it to be much more
interactive, basically like a desktop application. It would seem
the best (for some definition of good :-) technology for the job
would be JavaScript on the front-end (although I could do it in
Java with Swing or JavaFX and deliver it as a JNLP app). Anyway,
does anyone here have any preferences for a GUI toolkit for
JavaScript? So far, I've been looking at Dojo, JQuery, YUI, Ext
JS, and the Google Closure library. As I'm pretty new to the whole
JS world, I'm thoroughly confused (maybe that means that I'm on
the right track :-). I'd really appreciate feedback.
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