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Trending Up Together: Vue.js and PWAs

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While you may be drowning in the jargon and acronyms of the tech world’s rapid evolution, one term you should know is PWA, which stands for progressive web app. Why? PWA’s may represent over half of all web development, overtaking mobile and native apps in the next year. Info World, Smashing Magazine and tech bloggers predicted the trends as early as 2017, not long after Vue.js gained momentum in the development world. The two might have a synergy worth investigating for web app development. What is a PWA? A progressive web app generally has the following characteristics: A web-based page design that operates and responds like an app on any device. Development with API’s such as Service Workers, JSON, Web App Manifest, and Trusted Web Activities. In other words, a PWA is a web page that behaves like an app for users. It presents a frontend as slick and interactive as any native app, but it can work offline, push notifications, and track users’ locations. Furt...

Why RPG is important for mission critical applications?

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  RPG for modern day software applications may sound a bit off the track to those who are not aware of its advancements and extravagant features. But yes, this is true that today RPG is used for several ERP’s and mission critical business applications, based on RPG IV. This transformation is not a result of a day or two efforts but because RPG IV is enabled to provide an interactive programming environment to  RPGLE or RPG Programmers . It is integrated with the state-of-the-art security features has seamless association with IoT and Watson AI. IBMi today is the platform of choice for secure and data loaded business applications. The language has gained wide acceptance because it is a fully functional high level language and is run on leading IBMi or AS400 series   The transformation of RPG The transformation of RPG from a report generation tool to a highly proficient language has been adventurous.   RPG was upgraded to RPG II fin 1960’s following the developme...