Show HN: Visual Basic 6 reimagined in JavaScript

Re:Show HN: Visual Basic 6 reimagined in JavaScript by zubairq on Monday January 21, 2019 @04:48AM (#18959106)

Still very early, but we are trying to recreate the Visual Basic 6 experience in Javascript.

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Re:Show HN: Visual Basic 6 reimagined in JavaScript by tinktank on Monday January 21, 2019 @11:39AM (#18961472)

Why? Who is the target market?

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Re:Show HN: Visual Basic 6 reimagined in JavaScript by zubairq on Monday January 21, 2019 @11:49AM (#18961553)

The target market is people such as myself who need automation tools within an intranet, tools that work with the simplicity of VB6, and are not cloud based

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Re:Show HN: Visual Basic 6 reimagined in JavaScript by karmakaze on Monday January 21, 2019 @07:20PM (#18964903)

  Made with:
  
  Electron
  VueJS
  Sqlite
  Javascript
  NodeJS

I take it the above is for the Visual Basic like editing.

What is the runtime environment? Is it also packaged as stand-alone Electron desktop app with it's own database? I didn't understand the 'share the url' part of the description which seems to imply that it's a web app.

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Re:Show HN: Visual Basic 6 reimagined in JavaScript by zubairq on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @12:19AM (#18966158)

I could have used a different stack than shown to get the Visual Basic like editing.

The runtime environment is NodeJS/Electron, and the same code that runs the website also runs the desktop app

Yes, it also has a built in Sqlite database, so that when you make a database app you can download the entire app, including the the database as a single HTML file that can be emailed/distributed to anyone and run using just a web browser

The Share URL part means that if you build an app within your intranet that you can then send a URL link to a colleague so that they can use the app as well

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