Posts tagged "Web-Development"

If you’ve built any kind of web-based application in the last decade, chances are you were building a single-page application (SPA). This means you’ve been writing JavaScript or Typescript, had to work with the Node Package Manager or Yarn, needed to understand a framework like Angular, React or Vue and had to learn a new testing framework (or two). And that would have been only the basics. You would probably use other libraries, frameworks and toolkits: for styling the user interface, for doing API calls using REST and/or GraphQL, and for writing reusable components. But we usually take the pain, because the alternative is just… “boring”.

But it is time to reflect on this approach. It drags in a lot of complexity, but what does it give us? More complexity! At the end of the day, everyone will probably agree that simplicity is important. And what we want to achieve is a simple thing: displaying some information to a user. So why all that complexity?

A quick note, this time. Recently, I wanted to do some hacking around on Jakarta EE and MicroProfile. I chose to work with the OpenLiberty runtime, as I previously had good experiences with it. My pet project also needs a database, so for starters, I chose HyperSQL Database (HSQL DB). Here’s how I set it up.

Together with four “AwesomeSauce” colleagues from Info Support, I’m attending DevNexus this year. For me, it’s the second time I’m here, as I spoke here in 2018, too. Next to delivering my own “React in 50 minutes” session I’m attending some sessions to update with new technology advancements.