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Re:Web Programming Is Getting Unnecessarily Complicated by EGreg on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @01:20AM (#12119891)
I started out doing that. And inevitably I'd wind up refactoring multiple similar projects into reusable code and conventions. Over many years I arrived at this:

http://qbix.com/platform

Now I can assemble a website that works everywhere and has best practices, by expressing exactly what I want in high level code. When modeling a new app or talking to our developers about architecture, we can use a common language of users, communities, streams, access, realtime pushes and offline notifications etc. People know what I mean when I say "the Patients/account streams should be published by the community and have Patients/photo stream templates for the admin role, related to Patients/gallery category stream published by the logged-in user."

Everything is namespaced, reusable, interoperable and works on every device. It took a long time to make the system but now we can assemble apps like out of building blocks, and have anyone work on anything and know what the conventions are. So yeah, it's paid off!!

Re:Web Programming Is Getting Unnecessarily Complicated by adrianratnapala on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @01:29AM (#12119931)
When I go to the qbix website, and click on the "for Developers" link, nothing happens. Possibly something would happen if I played with my NoScript options.

Now I have some choices: allow javascript in order to read plain text, or ignore your web framework.

Guess which one I picked.

Re:Web Programming Is Getting Unnecessarily Complicated by buckbova on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @01:38AM (#12119967)
Unfortunately the for developers link had no code samples. So you didn't miss anything aside from a sales pitch.
Re:Web Programming Is Getting Unnecessarily Complicated by gunn on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @04:03AM (#12120482)
Re:Web Programming Is Getting Unnecessarily Complicated by EGreg on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @11:36AM (#12122351)
Because the code samples are in the developer GUIDE.
Re:Web Programming Is Getting Unnecessarily Complicated by EGreg on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @03:16PM (#12131668)
Don't use it if you don't want. We built it for ourselves and it's available to you if you want to use it. If you don't want to turn on Javascript to get started with the platform, that's up to you.
Re:Web Programming Is Getting Unnecessarily Complicated by random_rr on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @08:39PM (#12126044)
Edgy