NG Snakeoil: A Technology Walkthrough
Introducing The Next Generation - Snakeoil 1.0.0
Introducing the new WebApp!
Colour me biased, but that to me looks a lot better. The whole layout is improved, and hopefully easier to navigate compared to the first generation.
There are heaps of animations giving you a impression of something that’s dynamic and active.
And it works better with mobiles and tablets too - the WebApp automatically resize and rearrange itself according to the screen real estate. The next screenshot is an example of a smaller screen:
This mobile friendly interface is not something that can be easily done with the old code.
This WebApp is made possible by the following buzzwords - ESXi, GIT, MantisBT, NodeJS, Angular and RESTful. For rest of this article, I’d touch on each of these technologies, and describe how they help bring Snakeoil 1.0.0 to fruition.