Web Framework

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Status	IN PROGRESS
Impact	HIGH
Driver	Yaw Nti-Addae
Approver	Elizabeth Jones
Contributors	Vishnu Govindaraj KevinPalis Elizabeth Jones Yaw Nti-Addae
Informed	Deb Weigand, Roy Petrie, Joshua Lamos-Sweeney
Due date	29 Mar 2019
Outcome

Background

GOBii needs to identify and implement a web framework to be used for all future UI work. Old UIs will be gradually transitioned to new framework. The purpose of this decision is to unify and standardize GOBii's UIs

Relevant data

Metrics

Rank	Criteria	Weight (1 - 3)	1	3	9
	Multi-browser support	1	Does not support all 3, or external libraries needed to support all 3	Has support for all 3 major browsers, but requires code support for each	Has native support for all 3 major browsers, Chrome, FireFox and MS Edge
	UI testing framework	2	Only code testing (unit testing) supported	Can use external library or tool such as Selenium	Has a testing framework
	Internationalization and localization	1	No support	Supports L10n - Localization is the process of adapting internationalized software for a specific region or language by translating text and adding locale-specific components	Supports i18n - Internationalization is the process of designing a software application so that it can be adapted to various languages and regions without engineering changes
3	Security Framework	3	No security framework	Has security framework that supports either OAuth or LDAP, the other can be achieved through code	Has security framework that supports OAuth-2 and LDAP
	Form validation	2	No	Yes, but just server	Yes, both server and client
	Template framework	2	No	No, but theming is supported through libraries	Yes
	Latest stable version	2	More than 5 years	Greater than 2 years, but less than 5 years	Less than 2 years
1	License	3	Part open-source, part commercial	-	Subscribe fully to open-source license
	RAD	1	Code editor	Support for popular RADs such as Eclipse, JetBrains	Has RAD
5	Programming language	3	Not in GOBii stack, and don't have expertise in language	Not in GOBii stack, but have expertise in language	Already in GOBii stack
	Architectural pattern	2	1-tier	MVC	3-tier
2	RESTful API support	3	No documentation available	Stackoverflow	Published manuals and tutorials on developing APIs
6	In house experience	3	need external experience or learn	experience within a sister project	Have in house experience
	Compatibility with Deployment Stack	2	incompatible with current stack	compatible with sister deployment stack	compatible with GOBii deployment stack
	Profiling support	1	no support	can use other profiling tools or libraries	comes with inbuilt profiling tools
	Prototype support	1	no known support	Supported by other prototyping tools	Comes with prototyping tools
	Caching framework	1	none	with extensions	has caching framework

4	Visualization/Chart support	3	Need to program visualizations	Can use popular chart libraries such as D3	Come with Charts that are available to use out of the box

Evaluations

Types of frameworks:

Backend Framework -
Component based Framework -
GWT -
Single Page Framework -

Framework / Criteria	Type
ZK framework	Component based
GWT	Javascript Frontend compiled with Java backend.
JSF	Component based
AngularJS	Single Page
Angular	Single Page
Vue	Single Page
React	Single Page
Flask	Backend
Django	Backend
NodeJS	Backend
Spring MVC	Backend

Evaluations: Round 1

Round 1 evaluation only looks at criteria with weight 3.

Framework / Criteria	Type	License	RESTful API support	Security Framework	Visualization/Chart support	In house experience	TOTAL
ZK framework	Component based	1	9	1	3	9	23
GWT	Javascript Frontend compiled with Java backend.	9	9	9	3	3	33
JSF	Component based	9	1	1	1	1	15
AngularJS	Single Page	9	9	9	3	1	31
Angular	Single Page	9	9	9	3	9	39
Vue	Single Page	9	9	9	3	1	31
React	Single Page	9	9	9	3	1	31
Flask	Backend	9	9	9	3	9	39
Django	Backend	9	9	9	3	1	31
NodeJs	Backend	9	9	9	9	1	37
Spring MVC	Backend	9	9	9	3	9	39

Round 2 evaluation only looks at criteria with weight 2.

Framework / Criteria	Type	UI testing support	Latest stable version
ZK framework	Component based	1	9
GWT	Javascript Frontend compiled with Java backend.	3	9
JSF	Component based	3	3
AngularJS	Single Page	3	9
Angular	Single Page	3	9
Vue	Single Page	3	9
React	Single Page	3	9
Flask	Backend	3	9
Django	Backend	3	9
NodeJs	Backend	3	9
Spring MVC	Backend	3	9