Why is it good for beamline control ?

Many benefits

• enforced separation between front-end (graphical) code and back-end (control)
• influence on work organisation (tasks dispatching)

Remote Access by design

No deployment cost

Better applications architecture

Multi-devices, multi-platforms, multi-clients

Many benefits (cont.)

• web browsers have *always* provided backward compatibility
• applications are self-contained (no external dependencies, self-hosted)

Long-term support

The best graphical design and user experience

• a lot of innovation both in term of UI and UX
• fancy look & feel

Domains of web applications within SW Group

Monitoring

Device control / testing

Data Analysis

• fisx (multilayer fluorescence)

• Tango dashboard

• XBPM

Domains of web applications within SW Group

Configuration management

• MXCuBE 3 (in development)
• ISPyB

Experiment control and high-level user interface

• Beacon app.

Which technology stack to rely on ?

Technology stack

• evolution of computing in general
• welcome change, flexibility regarding choices
• bye bye frameworks

No ever-standing  / long-term silver bullets

My current tools for frontend development

ReactJS

Bootstrap

+ any library that get the job done:

dygraphs,

isotope, heatmap,

x-editable, ...

(depends on the project)

Good times are coming

• web components !