Mavenizing Javascript Projects

Installing an automatic build process for your projects is very common today and best practice. In the java world Maven is a very popular build tool and has proven its matureness over the years. In this blog post we will show you the benefits of a Maven build and how we can utilize them for javascript projects. Finally we present two maven archetypes for creating ready to go fully mavenized javascript projects for your first steps.

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Enhance your web application with these two jQuery plugins

In one of our last projects, we built a platform independent desktop client completely based HTML5 for the UI. HTML 5 provides a powerful way to build UI. Coupled with JQuery and H-UBU, we have developed a pretty exciting UI. One of the issues faced during this development was the management of the user interactions:

  • How to report info or error to the user without breaking the interaction flow using the jquery-toastmessage-plugin
  • How to explain to the user, he has to wait a couple of seconds while hard work is done in the background without too much frustration using the jquery-waitingpopup-plugin

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