Very big "Thank you" from me too :-) Op zondag 8 december 2024 om 03:01:54 UTC+1 schreef [email protected]:
> 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/4c7b8bb7-b1cf-4ac7-9fca-9eb0d6d482ean%40googlegroups.com.
