B4J Question [BANano] [SOLVED] Are there any plans to extend it to produce regular websites?

[Mashiane]

Hi

In respect to BANano, are there any plans to extend it to produce regular websites / webapps that are not necessarily SPAs?

By this it means multiple pages with different page names? These could also be database driven etc?

Thanks

 

[Kiffi]

Hello Mashiane,

have a look at the folder WebsiteDemo. There is a complete example of a website (ChatNoir).

Greetings ... Peter

 

[Anser]

Hi

In respect to BANano, are there any plans to extend it to produce regular websites / webapps that are not necessarily SPAs?

By this it means multiple pages with different page names? These could also be database driven etc?

Thanks

I would also like to have this feature in BANano

 

[Anser]

Hello Mashiane,

have a look at the folder WebsiteDemo. There is a complete example of a website (ChatNoir).

Greetings ... Peter

I checked this, I understand that even (ChatNoir) this is a single page app ie one single html file. Correct me if I am wrong.

For eg:- To the users/customers, I would like to provide a landing page link, may be www.chatnoir.com/aboutus or to a specific page for specific contents.

While doing digital marketing, we will be sharing information about a particular product or a particular promotion scheme. In such cases, we will sharing a web link in the advertisements which when the potential customer's clicks will be taken to that particular page which provides more information about a particular product or whatsoever is advertised. I don't think that it will be a good idea to make the potential customer land on the general homepage and then wasting his/her time searching for the content that he is looking for. Instead, if we have a direct web link, then we can directly bring the customer to that particular page/content that he is looking for.

I am not sure whether this is possible in SPA or not, maybe the whole purpose of SPA is totally different.
I was thinking that it would be an added advantage if BANano could be used to produce both types ie

1. SPA web app/website
2. Multi-page website/web app. So that we can create different pages and not just confined to a single index.htm for the entire Web site/app.

Thanks

 

[xulihang]

+1. SPA also seems not SEO-friendly.

 

[alwaysbusy]

While doing digital marketing, we will be sharing information about a particular product or a particular promotion scheme. In such cases, we will sharing a web link in the advertisements which when the potential customer's clicks will be taken to that particular page which provides more information about a particular product or whatsoever is advertised. I don't think that it will be a good idea to make the potential customer land on the general homepage and then wasting his/her time searching for the content that he is looking for. Instead, if we have a direct web link, then we can directly bring the customer to that particular page/content that he is looking for.

With the router version of ChatNoir, you can pass arguments in the url so the user goes immidiately to the place you intended:

e.g.
If you put this in the url:

http://127.0.0.1:8888/?page=About

And in BANano_Ready(), you catch this url and go immidiately to the About page here (go to Home if the page param is not found):

Dim ToPage As String = BANano.GetURLParamDefault(BANano.GetCurrentUrl, "page", "Home")
Router.NavigateTo(ToPage, False, False)

You can make this as complex as you need it:
e.g. go to the products page, product with id 15, ...

http://127.0.0.1:8888/?page=Products&id=15