Re: getting data from the iSeries to a web page

Nathan

yes it is about architecture, but it also about sustainability in a world
that changes with the speed
of light since both your homepage and your IT-system will look like a Ford
T within 5 years.

Just compare Wordpress themes today and compare the with 5 years old
themes. The interesting
thing is tha Wordpress basically is the same as of 5 years ago written in
PHP on the server side
and jQuery Javascript Framework on the client side.

The big difference is in the CSS that in most cases are build on Bootstrap
and themed by SaSS
( https://wordpress.org/themes/search/bootstrap/ )

So Bootstrap, that is the worlds most popular CSS, is IMHO the obvious
choise whatever client
javascript framework you chose to use or if you prefer to homebrew since it
is themeable and
may be brought forward with modern look and touch as you go without major
rewrite of underlying
code.

What client javascript framework to chose is very much depended on what
language is used on
the server side. In regards to IBM i we have PHP where jQuery is the natual
choise while you
find frameworks like Angular, React, Vue when it comes to java, node.js,
.NET etc.

Since I for my self has chosen to run node.js side by side with RPGLE/CGI
Angular has been
the obvious choise and there is nothing that prevents node.js to serve
Angular based pages
while data is provided by CGI programs written in SQLRPGLE while Apache
also serves static
content such as graphics, documents etc. - in fact it is very easy and a
very efficient architecture
in regards to IBM i.

You can see how both Native and node.js coexists in the same environment
here:

http://www.powerext.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/StackOnI-768x452.png

and if you go to my framework that runs CGI/RPGLE you are able to run the
node.js
demos within the RPGLE framework

http://5.103.128.110:6380



On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thoughts in this discussion, and the one about moving from green screen to
GUI that preceded it, appear to be converging around the importance of
architecture.



On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I didn't know how to say that. Yes. I agree. Which is, of course, the
problem. We have to start writing software that is easily updated,
massaged, and adapted to new formats. All without writing another new
end-to-end application. We have to split out various aspects. For
instance, we have to let designers write .css files yet assure that they

do

not corrupt the process or the data.


On 12/14/2017 2:32 PM, Henrik Rützou wrote:

Booth

withh all due respect for Paul and Scott's work these articles are

written

about the time the worlds
first smartphone from apple was announced, they may be a little in
backlevel.

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