Applying Enterprise technologies in Science

In this talk I share my experience in full stack development of a web application from scratch for a research facility, including designing REST API, choosing REST implementation framework and UI framework.

This talk covers the task, architectural overview, some technical challenges and presentation of the end result. The described methods and technologies can be also used in other facilities and fields, not only research ones. It includes an introduction of SCADA framework that is widely used across many big research centers in Europe (DESY, ESRF, Soleil, ALBA, ELLETRA etс.) – Tango Controls (tango-controls.org). In the presented application Tango is a backend. As a middleware - RESTEsay was chosen. As a frontend - framework that provides professional looking UI components to build web/mobile based enterprise applications - webix (webix.com). It is a cross platform and cross browser UI library with easy integration with Third Party Tools. JavaScriptMVC defines js application structure.

Code samples are presented to highlight some ideas, interesting features and technical challenges.