[Lazarus] Quick Video: A Web Application

[Michael Schnell]

On 08.11.2017 13:12, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote:
> ExtPascal way (or UniGUI for that matter) is the wrong way to do 
> things. Interesting as a toy, but not suitable for
> a) Large, scalable websites
> b) serveless applications.
>
Agreed ! But if doing a server based application (ore one that includes 
the web-server) that mainly does unattended, "embedded" work,  and tghe 
GUI is only used for configuration and monitoring, such a 
toy-functionality might be useful, nonetheless.

 From the view of the application programmer, doing a Rich Internet 
Application with pas2js is a similar endeavor as Microsoft intended by 
Silverlight (which has been canceled some time ago) : Design an 
application and define "bridging points" that "somehow" shift the 
execution between server and browser.

With Silverlight, both parts would be compiled to CIL byte code and run 
an a CIL (aka .NET) framework, with fpc, the server part would be 
compiled to a native executable while the Browser part would be compiled 
to JS (or maybe later to WebAssembly).

The user source code would not necessarily need to contain much more 
than appropriate definitions of the bridging points (supposedly some 
kind of inter-class interface), and the Lazarus infrastructure would 
take care of the communication.

-Michael