Tips for porting GWT to AngularJS
With the end of the development plugin, the fun left GWT development. Every little change causes endless recompilation and then I am still debugging half Java half Javascript in the browser.
I am thinking about switching to AngularJS. Any hints on how to approach this?
Should I switch RPC servlets to web services returning JSON first?
I am also using GXT grids. What's the best way to replace them?
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Are you using Super Dev mode? This greatly improves development as you are using the browser dev tools for debugging and using source maps. In my opinion, he applied GWT again.
Take your server first by translating your RPC servlets to the equivalent REST interface. Then you can use any external MVC framework - Angular, native mobile, or whatever.
For GXT grids, AngularUI has a grid component. http://ui-grid.info/ . You can also use ExtJS grids.
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