Front End Framework for RESTful backend

Question

I am developing a RESTful backend using the Spring framework. All services are available through HTTP requests (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE).

Could you tell me what can best combine the framework for the interface?

Is it better to use SpringMVC or some other framework like Backbone is good enough?

If I use SpringMVC for the REST backend, as well as SpringMVC for the front end, wouldn't it be superfluous to do the same thing first for the backend and then for the interface?

And most importantly, I'm confused about how you can manage a session using an external interface?

Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

If you want to make a SPA (single page application), make sure you look at AmpersandJS → http://ampersandjs.com/

Answer 2

Patterns

Since you said a “server-side” GUI, are you probably thinking more about the lines of the template engine for creating HTML? This is not very reassuring, but it can be MVC, for example, if you forward your Controller classes.

But PLEASE keep in mind that it would be a very FREE idea to try to generate XML or JSON data for consumption by RESTful (ajax) clients from any of them. Just say no to JSON from the template engine!

JSP is currently the standard for Java EE at the moment or the most widely used. All you need is a compatible server like Tomcat / Jetty.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javaee/jsp/index.html 

Thymeleaf It looks much cleaner than the JSP, and has the added benefit of not allowing all the traps that can happen to the JSP (and there are many).

 http://www.thymeleaf.org/ 

JavaScript:

When you say that you are creating a RESTful backend, most people will conclude (and rightfully) that you are trying to develop a MVVM JavaScript client / GUI.

Kendo UI has a full set of GUI widgets and an MVVM framework specifically designed to work with the RESTful backend. But this is a paid API.

http://www.telerik.com/kendo-ui

YUI3 (Yahoo user interface) also has many widgets, and I have seen many tasks requiring this. The advantage is to be free / OSS. The old version is out of date.

https://github.com/yui/yui3/wiki

knockout.js was my favorite for MVVM engines that I really had experience with. And it's easy, in my opinion, to find out.

http://knockoutjs.com/

Angular.js is also free / oss and works well with other GUI APIs.

 https://angularjs.org/ 

Answer 3

I would suggest you use Sencha Ext JS for the interface, it is one of the best frameworks and will work with RestFul back-end .

Answer 4

This is a good question, but I don’t think there is a server infrastructure specifically built to use the REST server server. I think you could use Spring-MVC / Spring-Boot to get a good hat, but you can also look in Rails or other Ruby for any other modern web framework technologies.