Greetings,
-- I built an app in GWT back when Google was developing it. It worked okay and avoided HTML & CSS, which I didn't know at that time. When Google dropped browser support for GWT, I dropped GWT.
Out of curiosity, I downloaded the latest GWT. Interesting. I see you've solved the front-end debugging issues. Nice!
I noticed that you can change front-end code without rebooting the system and rebuilding. However, this doesn't seem true about the back-end code. Am I missing something?
Also, since I originally used GWT, I have learned HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc. Now I feel like it is easier to specify layout in HTML/CSS than using all of that GWT Java code. GWT front-end code seems incredibly verbose. That leads me to two questions:
1. Can I use HTML/CSS? If so, are there examples?
2. Is there a graphical GUI system that allows someone to graphically design an interface and have it generate all of that Java code for the front-end?
Lastly, and just FYI, in response to what Google did with GWT at that time, I ended up writing my own open-source, full-stack web development framework. In addition to being able to change front-end code while developing, it also supports changing back-end code without having to reboot the server or recompile anything. It also has built-in support for microservices, REST (actually JSON-RPC), authentication, custom HTML controls, SQL API, reporting, CSV import/export, crypto, LLM interfaces, and a lot more. It has been used in production systems for a few years now. It's at kissweb.org
Thanks!
Blake McBride
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