Thanks Thomas,

I love your posts for their density in acronyms and new products that take me half and hour to discover and reply appropriately.

PWA (Progressive Web Apps.) seems to be is another moving target in the Web space, off-line no longer belongs to the base requirements; any FiC app. can match the PWA baseline requirements.

VAADIN (aka Cuba Platform, "An open source Java RAD framework for enterprise web applications") seems to encapsulate HTML/CSS into Java code, similar to Google Web Toolkit; works on different principles than FoxInCloud.

P.S.: not sure why you (and others seemingly) in first intent doubt of what we (FoxInCloud users and/or I) write about FoxInCloud; you don't seem to have the same doubt about 'mainstream platforms' writings as you often cite them here. All we/I say or write here, in our blog or other forums is the exact truth; FoxInCloud Development Videos can help see clearly what we claim: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrEohAtbuf3uOXBH2pjp5Vw
Thanks for appreciating the Bootstrap responsive support in FoxInCloud anyway!


>nice article! Well rounded and - while your bias pro FIC can be felt -
>it is clearly not a one-sided marketing blurb, but more similar to father being proud of offspring ;-))
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>You did not list a few things/roles I think FIC powered applications cannot deliver, mainly SPA-like handling of loading and working possibly/partially off-line until save or total offline loading/working as is specified for PWA.
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>That said, most LOB applications need contact to backend data, so just moving GUI to web but needing connectivity will not dimiss too many use cases. And the automatic security plus by design by having biz code run on servers only is a big plus for some use cases ;-)
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>VAADIN (which uses a very similar approach to architectore of FIC but in Java via GWT) aims now for JS components (own and Vue.Js) and probably SPA/PWA architecture options later on if I read them right. Dunno if you are also thinking along these lines or this is not in the cards for FIC in the future...
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>regards
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>thomas
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>P.S.
>A few weeks ago I doubted the benefit of FIC apps on mobile screens. Meantime I ran at least the demos on my trusty Nexus7 and the Bootstrap worked very well - much better than I had anticipated. I stand corrected (well, sit in front of keyboard....)
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>thomas