3 posts tagged with "Technology Evaluation"

Technology evaluation is some times challenging when we have best technologies available. Let us see who wins Angular or React.
Features

Framework / Ecosystem​

Angular 4

Angular 4 is an MVC Framework itself.

React

React is only a view library one needs to choose the different libraries to make the Best Ecosystem. Refer my post for choosing the better parts to build a React Echosystem

Summary: It takes time to build Ecosystem in React. Once built developers need not worry about the Ecosystem.

A Progressive Web App (PWA) is an web application which gives an App like experience on mobile devices. PWA are developed with web technologies. These apps need not be installed and can be just access on the mobile browser by adding a short cut to the Home screen using ‘Add to Home Screen’ browser option. PWA fills the gap between mobile websites and mobile apps.

Currently PWA are developed by many Software companies you can find the references from PWA Rocks website

First thing first​

Steps
1. Install Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 or higher.

2. Download the project template zip from here
Save the file to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#.

3. Install the BotFrameworks which gives the Bot Emulator
here

4. Build the project and launch on the browser

5. Open emulator and add the your url http://localhost:3978/api/messages port number 3978 may vary based on the the endpoint launch and leave the MicrosoftAppId field and MicrosoftAppPassword field empty

6. To check the bot is working
In emulator bottom Text Box enter a message say hello, this message will be echoed back to you, like below
You sent hello which was 5 characters

Reference:
Microsoft documentation