Category: Industry

July 2, 2024

Supply chain attacks, React, and the death of “mix & match” development

Recently, a popular open source project called polyfill.js was taken over by a bad actor, who injected malicious code into the project. 100s of thousands of sites with CI (Continuous Integration) systems did their usual automated build & deploy cycle and the exploit is now all over the place. This is called a “supply chain attack” and you have to...

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May 1, 2024

The insanity of SSR (Server-Side Rendering) for Enterprise apps

Recently, we talked to a prospect who was building an ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) front-end, and found out that they were doing it in an SSR framework. This is insane.  Truly and completely nuts.  To set the stage for this discussion, there are two basic models: An SSR framework renders the content shown to the end user on the server. ...

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August 29, 2023

Introducing SmartClient UI Components for React Applications

When building your web application in React, having the right UI component library is extremely crucial. Through Isomorphic Software’s SmartClient library, you have the most powerful, comprehensive suite of UI components for a React web application. Additionally, you can add UI screens to your React apps using the Reify component in the SmartClient UI library. These components provide unparalleled functionality...

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February 16, 2023

Best Practices for Business Logic Validation

Validation is a critical aspect of any web application, especially in true web applications that offer advanced functionality for sophisticated users – people who use the application continuously, all day. Validation in such applications is often very complicated: validation rules may involve multiple related entities and complex conditional logic – it’s not just “integer greater than zero”. At Isomorphic, we...

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December 15, 2022

Optimizing Web Applications vs Web Sites

Most of the time, when you read advice about optimizing your web properties, the advice is provided without making a distinction between building a web site vs building a web application. This assumes that the approach to optimizing a basic web site – for example, a site showing off an artist’s portfolio – is basically the same as that for...

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December 8, 2022

Fallacies of React: Why so many React projects fail

If you use React, it’s easy to hire experienced developers, and you can use the best components available from a variety of sources, right? Wrong. Unfortunately, this is not at all true, for two main reasons: To be clear: React is a solid technology, and there’s nothing inherently wrong with it. The problem comes from misunderstanding the nature of React....

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November 21, 2022

Why Everything Is CRUD

Many web frameworks have very advanced support for the so-called “CRUD” operations, that is, Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete, also known in SQL as Insert, Select, Update and Delete. Often, when developers see the CRUD features in these frameworks – like data grids that know how to perform CRUD operations, as in SmartClient – they react by saying: well, that’s great...

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May 26, 2022

Are lightweight components really what you need?

Business applications improve productivity. Improving productivity is why applications exist and why we are all employed to provide them. However, as developers, we sometimes get excited about new technologies and the benefits they claim to have. For example, a basic grid component with a very small amount of source code sounds very appealing. However, this simplicity is the wrong thing to...

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November 8, 2019

The Difference Between SmartClient and Smart GWT

We often get asked about the difference between SmartClient and Smart GWT. The answer is: ‘not much‘. When you’re running SmartGWT, you’re also running SmartClient When you are running SmartGWT, you are also running SmartClient.  You are using SmartClient’s widgets, data binding, browser compatibility, etc. See the SmartClient vs SmartGWT architecture diagrams below: As you can see, we only use the...

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February 1, 2018

Customer Success: Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust

Developing IT solutions to support research for new, more effective and efficient treatments for heart and lung disease. Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust is a partnership of two specialist hospitals, known throughout the world for their expertise, standard of care, and research success. RBH has achieved incredible things: performing the first successful heart and lung transplant in Britain,...

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