There have been many notable changes to the Tabris.js codebase since Beta 2, and today we are happy to present the first release candidate of Tabris.js 2. In the last six weeks, we've been focused on finalizing the API for Tabris.js 2.0. But we also deliver some nifty new features, a performance improvement, and a useful addition to the developer console. New CollectionView and Picker API The...
Read MoreLast week I finally published the Node.js bindings for Java. These bindings allow developers to embed the Node.js runtime directly onto the JVM through the Java Native Interface. In March I gave a pre-release presentation at EclipseCon on this work, which was recorded by InfoQ. You can check it out at: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/node4j-nodejs-java. The slides are also available on SlideShare....
Read MoreSymmetric cryptographic algorithms are algorithms that use the same key for both encryption and decryption. That is, a Code + Key will produce a Cypher, and the Cypher + Key will produce the Code. Crypto-JS is a popular cryptography library which supports a number of different cryptographic algorithms including Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). Encrypting and decrypting using AES with Crypto-JS is straightforward: [raw] var CryptoJS = require("crypto-js"); // Encrypt...
Read MoreThe latest version of JavaScript (ES2015, or commonly called ES6) is packed with modern features, including classes, lambda expressions (“arrow functions”), block scoping, template strings, and much more. Using a transpiler like Babel, you can use these features in your Tabris.js app today. Quick Start The fastest way to a working ES6 project setup is to generate it. Just install Yeoman, a popular project generator for JavaScript,...
Read MoreThe goal of Tabris.js is to enable you to write an app once and run it on any mobile platform you need, always using 100% native UI components. By now Windows 10 Mobile has a respectable market share in Europe, and its x86 counterpart is running on millions of tablets and laptop/tablet hybrids everywhere. Therefore Tabris.js will deliver for those devices as well. Today we can...
Read MoreHi, as this is my first post on the EclipseSource Blog, I thought I would introduce myself. I’m Shai Alon - new employee at EclipseSource and the mobile developer evangelist for the Tabris.js technology. I am a full stack JavaScript expert and my previous job was a team leader of a full stack JavaScript team - building complex web applications with an Ember.js frontend and...
Read MoreIn this post, we introduce a way of validating JSON HTTP requests based on a given JSON Schema instead of manually implementing the validation. We were recently approached to implement validation of JSON HTTP requests based on Play’s Validation API and a JSON schema. Play already provides a great API for performing JSON validation via its Reads/Writes combinators, which are also used to convert JSON...
Read MoreThe dynamic typing in JavaScript allows for more flexibility, but it comes at the price of weaker tool support. Explicit type definitions in your code can support editors to provide more exact suggestions as you type … … and to discover problems earlier … TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that adds type information to the language. It is compiled to regular JavaScript, so it can be...
Read MoreThe built-in, node compatible module system of Tabris.js makes it pretty easy to find and load JavaScript files within your project. NPM modules aside, all paths are relative. So even if your current module is "subProject/modules/dialogs/foo.js", you can open "subProject/modules/dialogs/bar.js" simply by calling "require("./bar");" However, aside from .js files, your Tabris.js project may also consist of images, json, xml and/or text files that you need to access. JSON is...
Read MoreJSONForms is an AngularJS-based framework to simplify the creation of forms for data entry and edit in web applications. It allows to declaratively define the content and layout of a form and to embed the form into your HTML with one simple <jsonforms> tag. If you would like to know more about JSONForms here is an introduction and here is an explanation of its core...
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