Reactive single-page applications with dynamic dataflow

Fowler, S. , Denuzière, L. and Granicz, A. (2015) Reactive single-page applications with dynamic dataflow. In: Pontelli, E. and Son, T. C. (eds.) Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages: 17th International Symposium, PADL 2015, Portland, OR, USA, June 18-19, 2015. Proceedings. Series: Lecture notes in computer science (9131). Springer: Cham, pp. 58-73. ISBN 9783319196855 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-19686-2_5)

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Abstract

Modern web applications are heavily dynamic. Several approaches, including functional reactive programming and data binding, allow a presentation layer to automatically reflect changes in a data layer. However, many of these techniques are prone to unpredictable memory performance, do not make guarantees about node identity, or cannot easily express dynamism in the dataflow graph. We identify a point in the design space for the creation of statically-typed, reactive, dynamic, single-page web applications for the WebSharper framework in the functional-first language F#. We provide an embedding abstraction to link a dynamic dataflow graph to a DOM presentation layer in order to implement dynamic single-page applications, and show how the technique can be used to support declarative animation.

Item Type:Book Sections
Status:Published
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Fowler, Dr Simon
Authors: Fowler, S., Denuzière, L., and Granicz, A.
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
Publisher:Springer
ISBN:9783319196855
Published Online:14 May 2015

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