Well, we agree that the current situation is sustainable only for (very) large companies who can afford (and love) rewriting every 2 years.
SMBs just can't follow the pace, also because they have more than "a cool little app", they have tens, often hundreds of forms and transactions.

FoxInCloud is here to help: hide the complexity of Web development behind a shared layer, developed once, used by many.

Today a FoxInCloud user who knows almost nothing about Web Dev who has cloned the WAIT feature (notification) in his FoxInCloud Web App; here are the steps he took:

• add the bootstrap-notify.js library to each page by overriding a VFP class method
  
• add a "wNotify" method to his form base class that builds the JavaScript string from parameters such as the notification title, message and styling (warning, success, etc.)
  
• call thisForm.wNotify(title, message, style) whenever necessary
  

>I recently watched a talk (found the link on G+ but couldn't find it) where the guy who wrote Django suggested that it might be better to write your own code in plain JS, CSS and HTML. It didn't really sound like he was suggesting writing your own framework but I think it was close. The idea was that you would write the code to meet the needs of the project. His biggest complaint was over time any framework will start trying to meet the needs of it's user "edge" cases. Which causes the framework to grow and lose it's "lean and mean". I see examples of that problem almost daily with VueJs. At the moment it is small and very fast - but everyday I see that others are asking for some module to be built into VueJs. So far Mr. You has resisted the requests.
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>I found it
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvOsegaN9Wk
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>Anyway, my biggest complaint about web programming is the fact that it is always changing (also don't like javascript). Any small business today has to try and keep up. But that is, of course, a major challenge. So I say if you have a paying project go ahead and use the latest tech otherwise don't fix it. The problem with my statement is why I'm here today on a forum supporting FoxPro. It's hard to just give up and move on! Also many tech's are just a flash in the pan - here today and gone tomorrow. So which tech do you use. Will VueJS be here in two years. I don't know - but I sure like two way binding. I also like Electron a lot. The idea of replacing the UI library with Web tech sounds great to me. I always hated that it was not easy to change a buttons' background color or add radius corners. With Web tech it's easy. And with Electron I can use Web styling on a desktop. Yet Electron is only about three years old. And it wont matter if MS, google, and many other very large companies are using it today - it could be gone tomorrow.
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>Just my .02
>Johnf

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