Here’s a brief table to overview, I’ll talk about some of the stuff below. +———————–+——————————+————————————+ | | RailwayJS | Tower.js | +———————–+——————————+————————————+ | First commit | Jan 2011 | Oct 2011 | | Rails | 2.3.x | 3.x | | Node.js | >= 0.4.x | >= 0.4.x | | Server | ✓ | ✓ | … Read more
Nothing compares to extjs in terms of community size and presence on StackOverflow. Despite previous controversy, Ext JS now has a GPLv3 open source license. Its learning curve is long, but it can be quite rewarding once learned. Ext JS lacks a Material Design theme, and the team has repeatedly refused to release the source … Read more
Straight from the Microsoft castle: What is it: The .NET Framework 4 Client Profile is a subset of the .NET Framework 4 that is optimized for client applications. It provides functionality for most client applications, including Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Forms, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and ClickOnce features. Why: This enables faster deployment and … Read more
A slug is a part of the URL when you are accessing a resource. Say you have a URL, such as the one below, that displays all of the cars in your system: http://localhost/cars When you would want to reference a particular car in your system, you would provide the following URL: http://localhost/cars/audi-a6/ Notice how … Read more
I am in the same boat. I started with CRA to create a SPA which was great to start with and get over the learning curve. But I soon realized two important issues : Sharing on social networks : I was unable to change the OGP tags per route. The effect of that is, only … Read more
When I first started with web development, it was with Clojure. I had no prior experience with web development at all. I could not, for the life of me, figure Compojure out. I don’t know if beginner documentation has been improved since then (it wasn’t that long ago) or not, but at the time, I … Read more
SHORT ANSWER No, you don’t need a framework to achieve your goal. BUT it will be really easier if you use a framework to manage your API. I suggest you to go for a lightweight framework and maybe you can convert easily your webapp to the framework too, having one “app” to return two different … Read more
That’s an odd question… I get the impression that… you are very familiar with mootools and take full advantage of its OOP model, making your code easier to manage and support already. you realise that jQuery’s purpose is somewhat different and tweaked towards DOM manipulation and AJAX and that mootools does do everything jQuery does … Read more
jsoup Extracting the title is not difficult, and you have many options, search here on Stack Overflow for “Java HTML parsers“. One of them is Jsoup. You can navigate the page using DOM if you know the page structure, see http://jsoup.org/cookbook/extracting-data/dom-navigation It’s a good library and I’ve used it in my last projects.
Apache Commons Configuration works great. It supports having the configuration stored in a wide range of formats on the backend including properties, XML, JNDI, and more. It is easy to use and to extend. To get the most flexibility out of it use a factory to get the configuration and just use the Configuration interface … Read more