Welcome to the real-time web! It’s time to move on from traditional synchronous HTTP request/response architectures to reactive apps with connected clients (ouch… that’s a lot of buzzwords in just…
Welcome to the real-time web! It’s time to move on from traditional synchronous HTTP request/response architectures to reactive apps with connected clients (ouch… that’s a lot of buzzwords in just one sentence)!
To build this kind of app, MeteorJS is the new cool kid on the block (v1.0 released in october 2014): a full stack Javascript platform to build connected-client reactive applications. It allows JS developers to build and deploy amazing modern web and mobile apps (iOS/Android) in no time using a unified backend+frontend code within a single app repo. That’s a pretty ambitious approach but it requires a very opinionated and highly coupled JS tech stack and it’s still a pretty niche framework.
Moreover, we are a Java shop on the backend. At AgoraPulse, we rely heavily on :
So my question is…
What are the best choices to build real-time Angular client apps, connected to a JVM-based backend these days?
Our requirements are pretty basic. We don’t need full Meteor’s end-to-end application model.
We just want to be able to :
Reactive apps is a hot topic nowadays and there are many great libs/platforms to build this type of event-driven architecture on the JVM:
Note: for Grails, the Spring Websocket Grails plugin looks interesting, especially if you use the full Spring ecosystem: Mike Plummer has a great example and a blog article about Websockets in Grails 3.0 .
ReactJS and Angular are the…