General Principles
Git repository: https://github.com/xtianus/yadaframework
The Yada Framework is a collection of libraries, patterns, tools, code snippets and best practices to speed up web site development. The main focus is on productivity and the approach is to use proven and known technologies in a repeatable way, so that each new project is easier to develop and maintain. Another goal is simplicity as defined by the KISS principle: some technology that is very powerful and exciting and complicated to use, won’t find a place here.
The technology stack is as follows:
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Javascript
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HTML, CSS, SASS
Tools used:
It is our strong belief that productivity is increased when using old and proven technologies (less bugs, less chance of deprecation, more documentation, more tools, more developer experience), and that simple architectures can efficiently solve most practical problems a developer will ever have to face.
Documentation Chapters
The documentation is a mix of tutorial and reference. It loosely follows the official Java "Duke’s Bookstore Case Study Example" with many improvements in functionality.
The tutorial sections are shown using this visual style.
- Getting Started
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This section will guide you through the setup of the development environment: installing Java, git, MySQL, Eclipse. It will then show you how to create an Eclipse project with a database and a web server
- Bookstore Tutorial
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When your development environment has been set by following the instructions in the previous chapter, you can start this tutorial that will show you how to quickly create a web application
- i18n
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Implement a multilanguage site
- Database pagination
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Fetch big data one piece at a time
- Forms
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Submitting data to the server
- Ajax
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Easy async operations
- Ajax Modals
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Open a modal as a result of an ajax call
- Security
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User accounts and protecting pages behind login
- DataTables
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Effective handling of tabular data
- Sending Emails
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Templating applied to emails
- Notification Modal
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Quick messages to the user
- Miscellaneous
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Other features
- Troubleshooting
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Some hints for fixing problems
- Upgrade Yada Framework Version
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New versions are announced on this page, together with instructions on how to migrate from the previous one
Current Status
The Yada Framework will always be a work in progress: open source libraries will evolve, our ways of using them will improve, the Yada code will get smarter, best practices will change, bugs will be fixed… and documentation will always lag behind.
The master branch in the git repository contains the latest "unstable" development. Each new stable version will have its own branch on which non-disruptive changes will be committed. Users, when starting the development of a new project, should pick the latest version on a branch and stick to it. Every new version might have breaking changes so you should upgrade only when you know you can afford the time of fixing your code.
A step-by-step guide on how to migrate from a version to the next will be provided here.