Referring f.ex. to this commercially available bootstrap based admin template:
http://keenthemes.com/preview/metronic/
... What are the challenges/limitations that must be foreseen if one wanna use the latest version of Alpha Anywhere to build a mobile and browser based application, and with the UI -design, -structure and -functionality from one of the very nice and yet very cheap bootstrap based templates that exists out there...?
In order to provide all the UI functionality, incl. all the "responsiveness"-functionality, most of these bootstrap templates relies alot on CSS and on Javascript running client side. Perhaps they also reference JQuery libraries...?
I am still in the phase of deciding whether to use Alpha Anywhere and which approach/plan to follow, and hence new to everything... I do know that the Alpha Anywhere platform also uses alot of Javascript running client side, to handle the integrated communication between client and server and to make the Alpha components automate the "client side" to "server side" communication.
Will both the JavaScript from the UI template and the Javascript from the Alpha platform be able to function and run in a robust manner side by side?
How about incompatibilities between the CSS that comes with the template and the CSS used for the Alpha components ? What are the challenges here ?
Some of the things that should work are:
Looking forward to hear about insights and experiences, and to an interesting discussion going forward. And then of course to get much deeper into using Alpha Anywhere.
Thanks in advance...
http://keenthemes.com/preview/metronic/
... What are the challenges/limitations that must be foreseen if one wanna use the latest version of Alpha Anywhere to build a mobile and browser based application, and with the UI -design, -structure and -functionality from one of the very nice and yet very cheap bootstrap based templates that exists out there...?
In order to provide all the UI functionality, incl. all the "responsiveness"-functionality, most of these bootstrap templates relies alot on CSS and on Javascript running client side. Perhaps they also reference JQuery libraries...?
I am still in the phase of deciding whether to use Alpha Anywhere and which approach/plan to follow, and hence new to everything... I do know that the Alpha Anywhere platform also uses alot of Javascript running client side, to handle the integrated communication between client and server and to make the Alpha components automate the "client side" to "server side" communication.
Will both the JavaScript from the UI template and the Javascript from the Alpha platform be able to function and run in a robust manner side by side?
How about incompatibilities between the CSS that comes with the template and the CSS used for the Alpha components ? What are the challenges here ?
Some of the things that should work are:
- User authentication controlled by Alpha: This would involve a login/register link as part of the UI. And following after login, the UI should integrate the username/picture and a logout-link the upper corner. Hence doing all the "Alpha stuff" in iFrames wont be good enough. Alpha must control everything around the application, and present it based on integrated UI functionality from the template.
- Lists/Tables/grids: Of course it would be nice to use native Alpha components for this. The template comes with designs for lists, tables and grids. Can the Alpha components be tailored to have the same look that comes from the template design ? Is this just a matter of using template CSS on the Alpha CSS ? Or can/should it be done the other way round - ie. Alpha functionality merged into the lists, tables and grids that comes with the template?
- Offline functionality: Being also one of the Alpha platforms strengths, when dealing with data handling and manipulation, the offline functionality should be maintained even when the template design is used. Does this entail a specifik approach to merging template design with ALpha component functionality ?
Looking forward to hear about insights and experiences, and to an interesting discussion going forward. And then of course to get much deeper into using Alpha Anywhere.
Thanks in advance...
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