Re: GWT vs AngularJS

My 2 cent.

I have been working with GWT for past 7 years. I have used plain GWT, GWT/GXT2, GWT/GXT2/GXT3 and GWT/GXT2/GXT3/GWTP in different project.

I like GWT because its Java and its Earlier Dev Mode support. And of course because of other benefits like Maintainability, Cross Browser Support etc.

I don't like GWT because:

- Generates Lots of Javascript code. Code splitting solve this problems, but still it generates double(or even more) JS code than that of pure JS app.

- You write code in Java, but you also consider(or Think) how the Javascript will be generated.

- Production mode debugging is easy in Javascript written app(of course if you have not minified it)

- Less Jobs in Market for GWT.(Though it has advantage of high Pay)

- As far as I know, no new product development uses GWT, lots of company still using it because they can't migrate easily.

Regards

Gourab.

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Thomas Broyer <t.broyer@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 4:58:36 PM UTC+1, Adolfo Rodriguez wrote:

In my opinion, the main problem of GWT is that you are irrelevant for crawlers, and this is a serious commercial drawback, despite I love GWT

Isn't that the case for any webpage generated entirely through JavaScript? (whether that JS has been hand-written, generated from Java code through GWT, or from CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Scala, Closure, you name it)

(and specifically, this applies to AngularJS too, as we're in a "GWT vs AngularJS" thread)

 

If GWT would be able to generate the plain HTML it would beat any pure JS library

Something like http://dev.arcbees.com/gwtp/advanced/crawler-support.html ? (which I don't think is limited to applications using GWTP btw)

See also https://prerender.io/ (independent from the client-side technology, whether GWT, AngularJS, etc.)

But as Vassilis said, Google and Bing execute JS (to some extent) so at least there you're covered without additional work. Things are likely to be different with Baidu and DuckDuckGo (to name a few)

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