B4J Library [Web][BANano] Website/App/PWA library with Abstract Designer support

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Download the latest version here: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...rogressive-web-app-library.99740/#post-627764

INTRO

BANano is a new B4J library to websites/webapps with (offline) Progressive Web App support. Unlike its big brother ABMaterial, BANano does not rely on any particular framework like Materialize CSS. You will have to write that part yourself, but on the other hand, you have the choice to pick which one.

Why a second framework? Well, from the start ABMaterial was build with a back server in mind. B4J has great support to setup a very powerful jServer to handle web requests. Which does mean all intelligence is at the server side and you have the full power of B4J to do whatever you want (secure database access, serial communication, cache control etc). With B4JS, some of this intelligence could be transferred to the browser side, but the app still needs internet/intranet access so this is as far as it could go.

INTRODUCTION PODCAST TO BANano (A.I. generated from the booklet)

http://sndup.net/hncr6

BANano is a different animal. It can use a Service Worker to 'install' the web app in the browser, so it can also work when the user is offline. While ABMaterial builds the page from the server side, BANano builds it from the browser side. This means EVERYTHING you write in B4J is transpiled to Javascript, HTML and CSS.

But with great power comes great responsibility! Unlike ABMaterial, some basic knowledge of HTML, CSS and to some extend Javascript is needed to build BANano apps. It makes excellent use of B4X's SmartStrings to create the HTML part of the app. BANano gives you a set of tools to write your own wrapper around any framework (MiniCSS, Skeleton, Spectre, Bootstrap, ...), which then can be easily used to quickly build webapps/websites.

DEMO/EXAMPLES BANanoSkeleton UI library

https://gorgeousapps.com/BANanoSkeleton/

OVERVIEW

A quick overview to show the different uses of both frameworks:

So both frameworks have their specific target, both for the programmer and the app you want to make.

Abstract Designer support in v2.0+

LICENSE

Freeware/Donationware License

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[alwaysbusy]

BANano 8.18 is Released!

This is a mainly a maintenance update fixing bugs. It also contains a newer version of the BANanoSkeleton library (8.18) with some new components. This version has been in production for over a year within our company and is used in several commercial PWAs.

Download https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...h-abstract-designer-support.99740/post-627764

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[alwaysbusy]

Please do not post in this topic and start a new one with [BANano] in the subject and some small example that demonstrates the problem. Big parts of the core have been rewritten from scratch so some specific transpiler cases like this may have to be reviewed. We have not encountered this problem in our Unit testing however, so a sample is essential.

 

[Mashiane]

Please do not post in this topic and start a new one with [BANano] in the subject and some small example that demonstrates the problem. Big parts of the core have been rewritten from scratch so some specific transpiler cases like this may have to be reviewed. We have not encountered this problem in our Unit testing however, so a sample is essential.

Im sorry I thought I was responding to the post you made in the question I asked.

 

[angel_]

When including the latest version of BANanoSkeleton, the old version appears

 

[alwaysbusy]

@angel_ I'll try to upload a new version on Monday where this is corrected as this weekend we are trying to find the specific case reported in the new transpiler where the setter/getter appears to go wrong somehow but without an small runnable example of the error it is like searching for a needle in a haystack. We'd love to add it to our unit testing as we want BANano to be used as close as possible to how B4J operates but something must be done differently than we do in our WebApps. We are rather clueless for the moment as our getter/setter's just work fine as does it probably for anyone not using this specific library.

 

[alwaysbusy]

BANano 9.02 Released. See: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...h-abstract-designer-support.99740/post-627764

IMPORTANT TAKE A BACKUP!

Ability to be able to make Web Components. (creating your own HTML Tags)

Web components are a set of web platform APIs that allow you to create new custom, reusable, encapsulated HTML tags to use in web pages and web apps. Custom components and widgets build on the Web Component standards, will work across modern browsers, and can be used with any JavaScript library or framework that works with HTML.

See Chapter 17 in the booklet for more information

Several bug fixes where done with one important one you should be aware of:

BANano.Split(). After spending quite some time looking why some code did work in B4J but not in BANano, we found out that the split functionality is very different between Java and JavaScript, especially when it comes to empty values before and after the delimiter. As we strive to have as much compatibility between B4J and BANano code, we have now made the JavaScript behavior identical to how it works in Java. So if you have used this method, you should check your code. It may or may not have impact on your code.

Note: You can now also use Regex.Split() in your BANano code (not the other RegEx methods. You can use BANanoRegEx for that).

BANanoSkeleton has also some bug fixes and 3 new components:

SKSVGSurface
SKTimeStartStop
SKTreeView

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[alwaysbusy]

BANano 9.03 Released. See: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...h-abstract-designer-support.99740/post-627764

IMPORTANT TAKE A BACKUP!

[FIX]: The BANanoSkeleton.b4xlib seemed to be corrupt in the 9.02 version. Since the last update of Windows 7 when I do "compress to" in Windows to a zip file, I end up with a corrupt .zip file that B4J can't read (something with the header). With 7-zip it seems ok.

[FIX]: Regex.Split() additional compatibility with Java if the string to split does not contain the delimiter, it now also returns an array with that string in it.

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[alwaysbusy]

An autogenerated demo of the components in the BANanoSkeleton library is now online

BANano Skeleton

gorgeousapps.com

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[Cableguy]

An autogenerated demo of the components in the BANanoSkeleton library is now online

BANano Skeleton

gorgeousapps.com

Alwaysbusy

Awsome!!! but.... why there's no UI "demo" representation of the "views"?

 

[alwaysbusy]

@Cableguy What are 'views'?

Edit: you probably mean the 'result'. I see it too now. I'll check it out tomorrow. Probably just forgot to upload some files.

 

[alwaysbusy]

INTRODUCTION PODCAST TO BANano (A.I. generated from the booklet)

http://sndup.net/hncr6

 

[pixet]

A demo to download and test locally could be effective for a more in-depth evaluation.
I did not find a link to download the demo.

 

[LJG]

The SKDataTable seems to be missing from BANanoSkeleton 9.03.

 

[alwaysbusy]

The SKDataTable seems to be missing from BANanoSkeleton 9.03.

Should be fixed now

 

[tango]

BANano.Build(File.DirApp)

banano 9.03 PWA give error and all my try is failed
but minimal is not
why?
is there any problem about şnternal designer?

 

[alwaysbusy]

BANano 9.10: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...h-abstract-designer-support.99740/post-627764

[FIX] .toLowerCase() did not work correctly on windows computers where the language was set to Turkish

 

[alwaysbusy]

Upcoming new update of the SKDataTable component in the BANanoSkeleton library (released somewhere next week).

1. Column click event
2. Column visibility
3. Custom column rendering (using other SK components)

See also the live demo for more info: https://gorgeousapps.com/BANanoSkeleton/

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[alwaysbusy]

New component coming SKYearCalendar. It is a component we need for a project so that the user can set a day schedule for his employees.

The release of the new version has been delayed somewhat because we need some new components for a project, but I try do do one before the end of the year.

See also the live demo for more info: https://gorgeousapps.com/BANanoSkeleton/

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