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Hey community, I’ve been working on a project called Jasonette (https://www.jasonette.com) and have been sharing my progress here for every important milestone. It’s great to have a place to share the progress. This time it’s a whole rethinking of the project itself and I think it may excite a lot of people who didn’t think much about Jasonette before. # Quick intro to Jasonette: Jasonette lets you build cross platform native apps using nothing but a JSON markup. No compiling, no build processes. Simply load a JSON over HTTP and it gets interpreted into native APIs on the fly. # About Jasonette Agent: Jasonette agent is a new layer for Jasonette which takes the framework to another level. You can think of it as microservices, but embedded on the frontend app. When people talk about microservices, it’s an architecture where each containerized server has its own designated job and it communicates with the caller to carry out tasks. Jasonette agent is a similar scheme but which takes place solely on the device inside an app. Here’s how it works: 1. The core app is 100% native. You build the app by writing a JSON markup. 2. The native core app can spawn multiple JavaScript execution containers called “agents”. 3. Then the core app can utilize the agents just like microservices. You use JSON-RPC to communicate, since everything on Jasonette is operated with a JSON markup. Basically if you already have a JS app, you can instantly plug it into Jasonette as an “agent” with a single line and build a native app. Also now you can build a cross platform native app for any imaginable feature using just JavaScript. In fact, the main motivation for building agents was because I had something really exciting I was trying to build but couldn’t find an elegant way to do so. With agents this became a reality and I plan on sharing that other app on PH soon too. Also you’ll start to see a lot of other cool add-ons that build on this architecture in the coming weeks. If you’re interested, follow the project at @jasonclient, or me at @gliechtenstein

ethan

Kitty

Maker