Re: getting data from the iSeries to a web page

I would posit that an architectural goal we should reach for is divisibility.

For instance, your appearance guru needs to deal with decoration, colors, themes, layouts, various screen sizes, and language issues.  Your data team has to deal with validity checking, filters, form, and substance.  Training people have to deal with Help screens, tutorials, and user constraints.  These various teams may not even be on the same continent, let alone the same city.

In the end, the days of the Renaissance Programmer are over.



On 12/14/2017 5:24 PM, Henrik Rützou wrote:

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