Re: GWT - Angular/React Migration & Integration

2020-04-27 Thread Peter Donald
FWIW A couple of years ago we decided to move away from GWT and move to react+mobx+typescript under the assumption we could produce apps faster. After several months in that world, we came back to the GWT world. Mostly this was due to productivity. Except for some legacy applications we don't use

Re: GWT - Angular/React Migration & Integration

2020-04-27 Thread Thomas
Thanks Howard. Definitely not planning a deep integration... Interesting insight about GWT vs JS in terms of productivity. GWT always felt 'enterprise' to me with large apps in mind. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Users" group. To

Re: GWT - Angular/React Migration & Integration

2020-04-24 Thread Howard Yeh
Similar situation. Our single page app SPA is actually made up of many separate sub pages, thus we stayed with GWT root and "injected" Angular by adding new url/page in Angular, and thus breaking the SPA experience a bit but we try to pass some info over to make it less jarring and more

Re: GWT - Angular/React Migration & Integration

2020-04-21 Thread Thomas Buckel
It does somehow. I reminded myself of that today as well. Guess it just feels unusual to me at this stage. Also investigating the iFrame option. On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 at 20:23, Michael Conrad wrote: > Don't know if this will help, but you can set the rootpanel for a GWT > component using an id,

Re: GWT - Angular/React Migration & Integration

2020-04-21 Thread Michael Conrad
Don't know if this will help, but you can set the rootpanel for a GWT component using an id, say on a div tag. On 4/20/20 8:00 PM, Thomas wrote: Thanks Jens. If I paraphrase in my words, you would keep the "shell" (menu items etc) and have iFrames for new functionality? Sounds like a

Re: GWT - Angular/React Migration & Integration

2020-04-20 Thread Thomas
Thanks Jens. If I paraphrase in my words, you would keep the "shell" (menu items etc) and have iFrames for new functionality? Sounds like a reasonable approach, although I'd prefer to have the "shell" in the new technology and have iFrames for the old GWT modules. Have you come across any

Re: GWT - Angular/React Migration & Integration

2020-04-17 Thread Jens
Kind of in the same situation and I figured that using an iframe approach is probably the best idea. So you would need to refactor your app in a way that you can launch an external application in an iframe for a given menu item, basically the content area in your app should be an iframe. That