Friday, April 28, 2017

Unleash the Power of REST APIs with Dojo, Engage 2017, May 8-9, 2017

For the first time, I will be attending Engage 2017 in Antwerp, Belgium.  It has been awhile since I have been in Europe and it will be nice to take a few days to visit Amsterdam and Belgium and then see many friends and colleagues at Engage.  Phora Group is a Bronze Sponsor and I will be speaking on my favorite subject, Dojo/MVC/REST.

My presentation is entitled "Unleash the Power of REST APIs with Dojo"  I have 22 demos that walks attendees through the process of creating a number of commonly used controllers, implementing data binding and react in Dojo. Then, we will combine all what we have learned with IBM Domino REST services and other open source projects to create a dynamic interface that we would not expect with Domino and Dojo.

Theo mentioned that there is still a few available attendee slots left.  So take the opportunity to come to Engage 2017, learn and network.  See everyone soon.

Monday, April 24, 2017

Data Binding and React with Dojo

If you have developed with XPages, this might have been your first experience with the Dojo framework.  However, for many the experience have been frustrating and negative. Unfortunately, IBM's implementation of Dojo into XPages was limited and really restricted the potential of Dojo. It never implemented the newer AMD design approach nor the many of the capabilities of Dojo.

Many developers who went towards the JavaScript Framework/REST approach with Domino implemented Angular, React, and even Vue for interfacing to the Domino server and bypassed frameworks like Dojo.  One of the big buzzwords for these newer frameworks is react and single/two-way data binding.

As a designer and developer who uses Dojo to create UIs  that work with RESTful APIs /Domino, it is frustrating to see all this attention to Angular and React when all the cool things they are known for has been in Dojo for years and in many ways before these frameworks.

Recently, I presented a session called "Unleash the Power of Dojo" where I showed that there are four different ways of doing data binding and reacts with Dojo including:

  • Observables
  • On/emit
  • Topic/subscribe
  • Watch
With four different ways, Dojo provides developer more options on how to implement data binding and reaction to better match their needs.

As part of the presentation, I walked attendees through the process of creating Dojo controllers in combination with Bootstrap, Fontawesome, ChartJS and other open source projects to create dynamic and reactive interfaces.  I have enclosed the presentation and demo source code here which includes the Bootstrap, Dojo, ChartJS, and Fontswesome distribution files which are owned by their respective owners and are licensed accordingly.  Included in the demos are a number of examples on how to use Dojo to perform one and two way data-binding which was the craze when developers were demonstrating Angular, plus react with Charts and also data-binding with data models.  

I will be presenting a more comprehensive session called "Unleash the Power of REST APIs with Dojo" at the Engage Conference in Belgium May 8-9, 2017, https://engage.ug/engage.nsf/Pages/Event20170508_Sessions5. Hope to see you there.

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