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Addon development using HTML5

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Hi,

Being a long-term c5 user, I know that concrete5 is a MySQL- PHP app however, I prefer HTML5 (JS, local storage, service workers) for development.

Can we develop addons for c5 v5.6, v5.7 using HTML5 & JS bypassing PHP-MySQL completely (or may be a bit). Does 5.7 support that?

Any API or dev docs?

Regards,
dkj
 
JohntheFish replied on at Permalink Reply
JohntheFish
You will need to write CRUD routes in php that use concrete5 to interface to your application data for any data that resides on the server.

With that in place, you can then write a block or single page to wrap your javascript application with angular or backbone or whatever you like.

On 5.7+ the frameworks the core is based on provide considerable support for doing that. On 5.6 you are petty much left to yourself, but sometimes that can be an advantage.
ob7dev replied on at Permalink Reply
ob7dev
Nice I've been really interested if this was possible as well. In theory I could write a node app for Concrete5?
alexwag replied on at Permalink Reply
It would be nice to have something like the Wordpress REST API..

http://v2.wp-api.org

regards
alex