Thanks for that feedback, it's always interesting to see what people are doing by combining technologies.
I'm quite liking that REST is getting more popular, it makes a lot of sense when so many platforms are being used. It would be cool if Tapestry components could be bound directly to RESTful resources in the client side instead of directly to page classes for their data input and output. I have had problems migrating apps from T5.3.6 to T5.4 so not entirely happy. On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 4:54 AM, JumpStart < geoff.callender.jumpst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Totally agree. > > Most recently I’ve built an extensive tablet app using T5.4 + PhoneGap. > > It’s massively AJAX, but I didn’t have to think about it very much - > thanks to Zones. > > It employs only 5 pages instead of a few hundred - thanks to components > and Zones. SPA without pain! > > The small amount of custom JavaScript is done as components and is > beautiful (I'd never before thought that possible) - thanks to T5.4 using > RequireJS. > > It runs so fast - fast enough to fool most into believing it is a native > app - thanks to Zones, RequireJS, and T5.4’s asset handling (and AWS)! > > But most of all, it has been a joy to build, and it has let me focus on > the domain most of the time, which I can’t say is true of any other > framework I’ve used (not even GWT). > > Tapestry, and especially Tapestry 5.4, I take my hat off to you. > > Geoff > > > On 29 Jul 2016, at 8:38 PM, Qbyte Consulting <qbyteconsult...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > After years of Tapestry focus I finally got around to checking out how > > others are building web apps these days. Spring MVC + REST and Angular > seem > > to be flavours of the day and can create some quite slick solutions. > These > > approaches are still full of boilerplate code, but things are looking a > lot > > better than the early days of Struts. > > > > So far as I can see Tapestry and maybe GWT are still the only one stop > shop > > for cutting out the boiler plate code and having a focus on domain driven > > design with components instead of these pattern centric low level > > approaches. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > >
