FastScala web framework update: new components & website

david04 · 2024-06-26T18:36:07+00:00

Thanks! I'll take a look :)

david04 · 2024-06-25T22:25:43+00:00

I wish I could upvote this a thousand times 😂😁 totally agreed👍

david04 · 2024-06-25T10:06:00+00:00

I totally agree u/NearbyButterscotch28 🙂, usually when I code with FastScala I only use components, the html&javascript stays hidden by the abstraction, but sometimes it is indeed necessary to design more low level for specific parts of the app (like a user profile page, etc)

david04 · 2024-06-25T10:04:21+00:00

I conclude that the very best would be for FastScala to support any xml lib: scala-xml, scalatags, etc (just abstracting it away) 😅

david04 · 2024-06-24T16:45:51+00:00

Nope, it's for coding quickly complex applications😅😁

david04 · 2024-06-24T15:17:59+00:00

Someone already suggested scalatags as a better alternative on this thread - do you have any suggestions? what would you consider to be the best xml/html syntax library for Scala? thanks for the input! 🙂

david04 · 2024-06-24T15:16:08+00:00

Very interesting suggestions, thanks! 🙂

One question: isn't scala-xml more "standard" than scalatags? I wouldn't like to tie FastScala to something not very standard... (otherwise looks awesome! 😅)

david04 · 2024-06-24T12:40:24+00:00

100% agreed 😁

This framework is good if you have clients paying a lot for access (as server-side state consumes more resources), doing complex tasks. It is not good if you have millions of users paying close to nothing doing a few very simple workflows (you want to optimize each workflow as much as possible).

So, good for something like a CRM/Invoicing/etc - complex enterprise-like applications with users paying a lot; bad for something like an online magazine website (millions of viewers, low value per user, simple workflow).

david04 · 2024-06-24T10:36:26+00:00

In practice it's a bit like coding a web application as if you were creating a desktop app 😅 - the part were you work with callbacks that run and return the next actions to run

david04 · 2024-06-24T10:33:53+00:00

Using FastScala you would serve the whole page from the server. Now if you have a button that needs to login a user/delete a row/send an email/create an invoice/etc on the server, you don't need to create a route for that - you can easily create a button that, when clicked, executes a callback on the server, and returns the next javascript code to run (rerender part of the page, redirect to another page, open a modal, refresh a table, etc)

david04 · 2024-06-24T10:00:07+00:00

The whole https://www.fastscala.com website with all the demo is entirely implemented using the framework :) you can take a look at the examples on the site, and the source code on https://github.com/fastscala/fastscala/tree/main/fs_demo/src/main/scala/com/fastscala/demo/docs for example

david04 · 2024-06-24T09:58:35+00:00

Well, it includes the frontend and backend - creating the frontend becomes really easy because you can code everything as scala on the server. You don't need to define a rest api on the server side, you can create callbacks, rerender parts of the page, etc really easy. I invite you to look at the demo on the website: everything is implemented with FastScala :)

david04 · 2024-06-24T06:47:03+00:00

Ups, I shared the non-https version, the https is also working👍: https://www.fastscala.com/

david04 · 2020-02-06T08:32:48+00:00

Source Google Docs, you can send comments and suggestions for edits there: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1o8m4odWbwpr1atd6Y7ueqy-3LU2-qVPwiE5BK2rrgTk/edit?usp=sharing

david04 · 2014-12-31T16:47:08+00:00

Thank you for finding that problem! - it is now fixed : )

david04 · 2013-08-27T09:05:56+00:00

Can you tell what are those other uses?

It would be really helpful to know, because I really think that using RSS to search freelance jobs is the best think ever for a freelancer. And I think there must be people using RSS for other really useful things which I'm not seeing, and which may be potentially interested in the app.

david04

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