I am building a project management platform for freelancers and organizations. I want to integrate third party tools to centralize the freelancer's needs such as Jira, Slack, Github, etc .... However, integrating each tool aside is time consuming. In order to not reinvent the wheel, I was wondering if there is a built in package, plugin or tool that can lift all heavy work and make this task faster to implement.
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I want to know if web development can be done using Raku or Perl6?
Like Django for Python, do we have any framework available for Raku?
Id appreciate if you told us which are the libraries available or any tutorial.
Are there any webhosting providers to host Raku web application?
Many folks are using Cro for this. It's a set of libraries that you can pick as needed (and not just for web development), but offers things like:
Routing requests to handlers, and neat ways to express those handlers
WebSocket support integrated neatly into the router
Templating
Testing
There's a simple tutorial as well as a much longer one on making a SPA.
There is also a fresh CRUD server-side tutorial available.
Finally, there's integrated support in the Comma IDE, which includes a Cro project template where you can select the bits you need, indexing of and navigation to routes, and a timeline view that can be used to understand where time is spent during request processing.
There are base images available to support Docker deployment also, to anywhere that supports that.
I built a web framework for Raku called Humming-Bird it's brand new so there are still kinks to work out, but the core works really well! It is intended to be very similar to Sinatra and other frameworks of that style (express.js etc..)
Humming-Bird has most of the typical features of a web framework including but not limited to:
Routing
Middleware
Serving static files
This project is still in fairly early stages, but it offers more than enough to spin up simple web services, and web apps.
I see WebRTC is the the best way for developing it. But there are some paid frameworks in market for establisting video chat between wide range of clients like Web-Web, Web-Mobile(IOS, Andriod, Windows, etc.,).
Web-Web communication flow is very simple to implement. Now, I want the same for Web-to-Mobile and vice versa without using any external frameworks built on top of Native WebRTC. Please suggest me some best approach to achieve this.
The latest Chrome on Android is WebRTC friendly, that means if you have a web app that implements WebRTC. It will be working on Android's Chrome.
If you decided to create you own native app that implements WebRTC. Here are some great sources.
iOS WebRTC: https://webrtc.org/native-code/ios/
Android WebRTC: https://webrtc.org/native-code/android/
Follow the instructions in each allow you to build the native WebRTC framework that you can later on import them into your native projects.
The WebRTC APIs are somewhat related to the ones you are using in your web application. You need to do more documentation reading for those as you are using the official framework that built from the source, not a third library.
Before starting you need to review and test platform to make sure it works fine for all your target user categories. You can do that by reviewing references and also testing some existing apps for user types you plan to support.
As you mentioned wide range of clients, you need to identify the limitations of WebRTC technology. You can also evaluate other technologies: in example you could reliably serve most client types with mobile and web apps that use RTMP.
I am researching MBaaS (Mobile Backend as a Service) and what its purpose is, for school. So far I gathered that it is basically a resource that developers can use so they can create the back-end code one time, rather than separately for each device - this way the focus can be more on the front-end of the development.
So my initial thoughts would be that this tool can be used only in the creation of Hybrid apps, however I'm having difficulty finding information to back that thought up. So can MBaaS be applied to Native apps also?
If the sense of meaning I've gathered about what MBaaS is used for is wrong, making my original question void or not applicable, a thorough but simple explanation, of what exactly MBaaS does would be very much appreciated.
MBaaS is a service that can be used by all – companies that are big to start ups and solo developers.
Mobile app development remains fun when it is about designing user interfaces, engineering social communication among users or bringing in stickiness. The Backend infrastructure plumbing is too time consuming and less rewarding. Worrying about database scaling, thread locking, persistence, user registration handling, messaging and pushing notifications is not fun. They are necessary evils that have to be taken care of to launch an app. The Baas paradigm has definitely made app development much easier and fun. Hence MBaaS services definitely present a powerful case for quick adoption.
Built.io Backend is an MBaaS provider. It is client platform agnostic. It provides platform-specific SDKs (iOS as well as Android) for native app development, and Xamarin and JavaScript SDKs for hybrid app development.
Coming back to your question. MBaaS can be used to develop native as well as hybrid applications. The services is not limited to a platform or any other technology.
PS: I am employee at built.io
I've programmed a lot in asp.net mvc web applications. Now I want to write cross-platform mobile applications with cordova for the frontend and azure for the backend.
I am in doubt whether to use azure mobile services or WebAPI, because I want the power and freedom of WebAPI, but the convenience of azure mobile services. I do not understand concepts such as authentication, push notifications, etc.
My main goal is to focus on the application logic, frontend and backend with a significant weight of that logic in the backend. For this I have great doubts.
1st. I see both good mechanisms in AMS and WebAPI for external authentication, but not to manage your own authentication. What is the best way to manage your own authentication? Is Azure Active Directory solution?
2nd My intention is to create a well-defined API methods that return the exact data (json), rather than a rest api queryable (odata).
Wich is te best for this, WebAPI or AMS?
3rd I have experience with SQL Server, its relationships and Entity framework, but I do not care to learn and use NoSQL technologies, which is better? (However, I'm not comfortable with I can not use many to many relationships in NoSql).
Thank you very much.
there is not a real general answer for that, so take these as advices.
At first, keep in mind that AMS and WebApi are not so far. An AMS project IS a WebApi project with some helpers inside to make you comfortable working with related services (push notification, table entities), but you will lose a bit of control on your application.
The choice depends on your needs
Azure Active Directory IS a solution, but there are a lot more. You can use your preferred framework. AMS has got a pretty integrated login with most known social network and azure active directory as well, and is very easy to set up.
I'd suggest AMS. It will be easier to setup and mantain.
AMS is just WebApi castrated. To get all these services easier for you, you cannot for example
Customize startup of your application
Use a dependency injection framework
Run background tasks
And other stuff like that.
Hope it helps!
Which API frameworks for node js best suits mobile applications (native or HTML5) or client-side HTML5?
While there are many frameworks (https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Modules#wiki-web-frameworks-full) , like restify, express, I think hapi was built for your needs. Its focus is on your business logic, and favours configuration for simple and fast deployment.
You can find the package in https://npmjs.org/package/hapi, and https://github.com/spumko/hapi
It looks very promising. There's a talk about the framework in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Recv7vR8ZlA where the main contributor talks about what makes an API framework tick.
It supports caching, validations, plug-ins and more (watch the video).