JSON Forms is a framework for efficiently developing form-based UIs based on JSON Schema. It provides a simple declarative JSON-based language to describe UIs independently of any UI technology. Please see here for a jump start on JSON Forms. In this article, we highlight one the core benefits of JSON forms, which is being UI technology agnostic. JSON Forms’ core is has no dependencies to any...
Read MoreTomorrow Tabris.js 2.0 will be released and we conclude our count-down of the top 10 new features with our favorite addition: support for TypeScript 2 & JSX. TypeScript 2 & JSX We significantly improved support for TypeScript and introduced support for JSX, the declarative approach to UI creation. JSX allows you to embed XML directly into your Tabris.js code, giving you a better representation of your widget...
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 MoreMost Java developers stick up their nose if it comes to JavaScript. Today I would like to present you a way of dealing with JavaScript that is less alienating than learning prototype based inheritance and all the caveats about this. How does a JavaScript with class based inheritance, types, generics and modules sound? Let me introduce TypeScript to you. TypeScript syntax is a superset of Ecmascript 5...
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