Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmnHxHm39Ss Every day we imagine some new apps we'd love to have: having an application to allow people to submit talks, to register new holiday requests, expense reports, simply get data from one site and combine it with data from another site and display that, etc. This is the long tail of application. However in most cases we just drop the idea and continue with our life because we know it would take days or weeks to be able to develop that quickly before you could reap the benefits. What if there was a way to have these apps developed and working in just a few minutes! We'll demonstrate how a next generation wiki platform allows to do just that by using the XWiki open source project as an example.

1. Addressing the long tail
of (web) applications
Using a wiki as a web dev platform
Vincent Massol, February 2018

2. Long tail of web apps
Excel of the
Web
Web’s Swiss
Army Knife

3. So what’s XWiki?
An advanced wiki… but…

4. So what’s XWiki?
Also a runtime web dev platform!

5. Demo time!

6. Capabilities
• Create structure (a.k.a metadata)
• Scripting in pages (Velocity, Groovy, Ruby,
Python, etc)
• Inject CSS/JS
• Install/Remove Extensions (API + UI)
• Create or use Skins / Themes / UI
Extensions points

7. Building an Application
Traditional way
Runtime

8. Building an Application
XWiki way - Application Morphing!
RuntimeRuntime

9. http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Screenshots

10. Conclusions
• Iterative, Need-based development
• Continuous Delivery & versioned
• Work collaboratively on creating applications
• Designers can style while devs create logic
• Works from day one, immediate feedbacks
• Open source and community-based
More on http://xwiki.org

11. Q&A
Me

12. Vincent Massol
vincent@xwiki.com
skype: vmassol
http://about.me/vmassol
http://xwiki.org
http://xwiki.com