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Kilo is an open-source framework for creating and consuming RESTful and REST-like web services in Java. It is extremely lightweight and requires only a Java runtime environment and…

Sierra 1.0 and 1.1 actually took a similar approach - trying to create a DSL based on the standard layout managers. However, I ultimately found that approach too limiting and went …

I generally prefer links since otherwise the code and examples can easily get out of sync.

Have you looked into Flutter at all? I admit that I have not, but I know it supports web development in addition to mobile and desktop: https://flutter.dev/multi-platform/web

Added an example demonstrating how to add an action listener to a button: https://github.com/HTTP-RPC/Sierra/blob/master/sierra-test/s... I'm not sure it's exactly what you were lo…

Sierra is actually inspired by Lima, a UIKit DSL I created in Swift before SwiftUI was announced: https://github.com/HTTP-RPC/Lima

Thanks for the feedback. I did consider using Kotlin but wanted to make sure it worked at least minimally in Java first.

Take a look at FlatLAF: https://github.com/JFormDesigner/FlatLaf They have done a great job bringing a modern appearance to the Swing components.

Agreed. I said as much in my response to this issue that was opened the other day: https://github.com/HTTP-RPC/Sierra/issues/12

Great question. You can do this with a cell consumer (i.e. the with() method). See OrientationTest for an example (e.g. leftToRightButton, rightToLeftButton): https://github.com/HT…

Yes, I know hardly anyone uses Swing anymore. :-) I basically just did it for fun and thought I would share.

UIStackView is a step in the right direction, but it doesn't go far enough. It's still not truly declarative; it requires you to think in terms of content priorities; and it doesn'…

Actually, Lima is partly a move away from using XML: https://gkbrown.org/2018/11/04/introducing-lima/

For one, you can't create a hierarchy of UIStackViews and their contents declaratively. But UIStackView also forces you to think in terms of content hugging and compression resista…

I understand the GraphQL pitch - I just don't buy it. From my experience, you don't generally need that level of flexibility. Most callers probably want the full set of data return…

Demonstration of how to create a GraphQL-like API using REST.