How to build cross-platform mobile apps with JSON

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Post by quincyla » Mon, Feb 13, 2017, 4:58 PM UTC

How to build cross-platform mobile apps with JSON
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Re: How to build cross-platform mobile apps with JSON

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Post by garrettgrimsley » Mon, Feb 13, 2017, 5:19 PM UTC

Typo in title. Should read "How to build mobile apps in JSON." And drop the "Yes, JSON" bit.

Re: How to build cross-platform mobile apps with JSON

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Post by MichaelBurge » Mon, Feb 13, 2017, 5:28 PM UTC

That's nothing. I can write a chess engine using nothing more than the Latin alphabet, Arabic numerals, and a couple punctuation characters. All you have to do is compose these building blocks in the right way, and gcc will take care of the rest.

Re: How to build cross-platform mobile apps with JSON

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Post by vog » Mon, Feb 13, 2017, 5:28 PM UTC

garrettgrimsley wrote: post #2

Typo in title. Should read "How to build mobile apps in JSON." And drop the "Yes, JSON" bit.

Not sure why this was downvoted. The click-baity "Yes, JSON" is really annoying and should be removed.

More generally, the title should be corrected to the actual title, which is almost fine:

"How to build cross-platform mobile apps using nothing more than a JSON markup"

Maybe remove the click-baity "nothing more than" part, but other than that, the original title is much better than the submission title.

Re: How to build cross-platform mobile apps with JSON

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Post by relics443 » Mon, Feb 13, 2017, 5:31 PM UTC

I've seen so many projects like this over the years that claim that they're the one that will allow for true cross platform app development, and they've developed a simple abstraction for doing so.

I've never seen any succeed at anything more than the most basic apps.

I put more stock in projects like Xamarin or MOE (and even they aren't perfect).

Re: How to build cross-platform mobile apps with JSON

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Post by aaron-santos » Mon, Feb 13, 2017, 5:32 PM UTC

So why JSON of all things? When I reached the "write a full declarative program in JSON" section I was internally screaming "but s-expressions!"

Re: How to build cross-platform mobile apps with JSON

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Post by zn44 » Mon, Feb 13, 2017, 5:37 PM UTC

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-inner-json-effect

Re: How to build cross-platform mobile apps with JSON

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Post by cocktailpeanuts » Mon, Feb 13, 2017, 5:38 PM UTC

aaron-santos wrote: post #6

So why JSON of all things? When I reached the "write a full declarative program in JSON" section I was internally screaming "but s-expressions!"

can you elaborate on s-expressions?

Re: How to build cross-platform mobile apps with JSON

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Post by hinkley » Mon, Feb 13, 2017, 5:39 PM UTC

aaron-santos wrote: post #6

So why JSON of all things? When I reached the "write a full declarative program in JSON" section I was internally screaming "but s-expressions!"

Same thinking, I expect, that gave us XSLT.

Re: How to build cross-platform mobile apps with JSON

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Post by kafkaesq » Mon, Feb 13, 2017, 6:03 PM UTC

The framework and approach described might be useful in some cases, but... you still need to understand CSS, HTML, and... pretty much everything about webfrontendism to meaningfully design and "build" such an app, of course (even if you do manage to cram all that metadata into a single JSON file).

So it's a bullshit title, basically.