We are building a mobile data collection app. We want it to be cross-platform, capable of running on Android, iOS, or in a browser, regardless of operating system. To make this possible, we're building the interface for it using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, which are the primary tools used to build interactive web interfaces.
Our app is built using Cordova, which is a framework for building cross-platform mobile applications HTML/CSS/JS to build the user interface. This will let us write an application once that can be used on Apple devices, Android devices, or other laptops or tablets through a browser.
We're using couchDB as our database, because it's a noSQL database that's powerful, yet easy to learn. It also has a mobile version, pouchDB, which integrates well with our mobile framework, Cordova. Couch and Pouch are designed to manage data sync between devices with intermittent network access, so it works well for our purposes.
What this crowd probably doesn't need to know:
The real "programming" part of our application is all done in JavaScript, and many of the JavaScript libraries are available through the Node.js Package Registry (node.js is a popular programming framework that allows you to use Javacript outside of the web browser). So we are using the node.js framework and its package manager, npm, as a way of managing the various libraries on which our app depends.
We are building a mobile data collection app. We want it to be cross-platform, capable of running on Android, iOS, or in a browser, regardless of operating system. To make this possible, we're building the interface for it using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, which are the primary tools used to build interactive web interfaces.
Our app is built using Cordova, which is a framework for building cross-platform mobile applications HTML/CSS/JS to build the user interface. This will let us write an application once that can be used on Apple devices, Android devices, or other laptops or tablets through a browser.
We're using couchDB as our database, because it's a noSQL database that's powerful, yet easy to learn. It also has a mobile version, pouchDB, which integrates well with our mobile framework, Cordova. Couch and Pouch are designed to manage data sync between devices with intermittent network access, so it works well for our purposes.
What this crowd probably doesn't need to know:
The real "programming" part of our application is all done in JavaScript, and many of the JavaScript libraries are available through the Node.js Package Registry (node.js is a popular programming framework that allows you to use Javacript outside of the web browser). So we are using the node.js framework and its package manager, npm, as a way of managing the various libraries on which our app depends.