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Wakanda Beta is here!
It's so close we can almost taste it. Wakanda is now in its first beta, which means an official, production release is just around the corner.
As of today, with Wakanda Beta, the release is now feature frozen, which means you can start testing Wakanda in the same manner it will be functioning as a full release. Now you can start planning your projects, playing with your ideas, and making the most out of this all-JavaScript platform.
Here are some highlights of the beta release:
And to get you going, check out this video of what you can do right away with the beta:
Even more features and ideas are being worked on in the development branch – which enthusiasts are invited to follow – but in the meantime, download the beta and start getting ready to put Wakanda into use. And don't forget to report any issues or bugs you find in the Wakanda Forum, which is your direct line to the Wakanda development team.
Also, be sure to check out the "Wakanda Today" tab in the Studio to keep you in touch with what's going on in the community. You'll have direct access to the latest information from the blog, the forum, Twitter, and also a list of the events that people from Wakanda will attend, speak at, or participate in any way We hope to see you out there!
As of today, with Wakanda Beta, the release is now feature frozen, which means you can start testing Wakanda in the same manner it will be functioning as a full release. Now you can start planning your projects, playing with your ideas, and making the most out of this all-JavaScript platform.
Here are some highlights of the beta release:
- Wakanda Server
- WakandaDB: a NoSQL object datastore with native HTTP & server-side JavaScript APIs
- HTTP 1.1 server with event-based thread pool and session management
- standards-based SSJS APIs using WebKit Nitro
- Wakanda Studio
- a full solution and project manager with an embedded media library
- a graphical datastore model designer with permissions management
- a graphical Users & Groups manager
- a WYSIWYG GUI Designer with direct access to Datastore model resources and rich CSS3 support
- an advanced code editor with smart support for JavaScript and WakandaDB
- a graphical & multi-context server-side JavaScript debugger
- Wakanda Client Framework (WAF)
- an Ajax-optimized data provider with automatic caching, paging, and lazy loading management
- data sources that easily bind server and local data to widgets
- a rich collection of business-oriented widgets like grids, forms, sliders, components, progress bars and matrices
- native scripts and stylesheets loader, a JSON-RPC client, Google Web font support... and much more!
- Runs on all modern browsers
And to get you going, check out this video of what you can do right away with the beta:
Even more features and ideas are being worked on in the development branch – which enthusiasts are invited to follow – but in the meantime, download the beta and start getting ready to put Wakanda into use. And don't forget to report any issues or bugs you find in the Wakanda Forum, which is your direct line to the Wakanda development team.
Also, be sure to check out the "Wakanda Today" tab in the Studio to keep you in touch with what's going on in the community. You'll have direct access to the latest information from the blog, the forum, Twitter, and also a list of the events that people from Wakanda will attend, speak at, or participate in any way We hope to see you out there!
Wakanda Developer Preview 2 is now available
The second Developer Preview of Wakanda is available for immediate download, featuring many enhancements and a number of new features. For a detailed list of what’s been put in this release, see the complete release notes.
Wakanda DP2 is available on the download page.
Wakanda DP2 is available on the download page.
Check it out!
For those who crave power over even the most minute detail, Wakanda Studio offers fine-grain control of every aspect of your interface. As you visually make your modifications to various interface elements, Wakanda automatically updates your CSS file with fully W3C-compliant markup so as to give your users consistent, functional appearance no matter their front end.
Here, we take a very look at how even combo boxes and checkboxes can be fully customized and differentiated from one another.
Here, we take a very look at how even combo boxes and checkboxes can be fully customized and differentiated from one another.
Join 300 of your newest friends in Boston this October
Join the nearly 300 people from across New England, all of America, and even around the world who'll be converging on Boston for Wakanday: JS.everywhere. It's an event you won't want to miss!
With Wakanda being based on the strong belief that JavaScript deserves to be everywhere in the development and deployment of business web apps – the front end, the back end, the datastore, and in between – we want to share that vision and gather as many people around it as possible. So we've put together this conference for Saturday, October 15 in Boston.
There will be an impressive amount of JavaScript knowledge at your disposal for an entire day! Not to mention the awesome networking opportunities with all the cool people who'll be there, and a relaxed beer party to wrap everything up.
You'll attend keynotes lead by globally recognized movers like Philippe Le Hégaret from the W3C, Douglas Crockford from Yahoo!, Tim Anglade from Cloudant among others. You'll also be able to choose from a great variety of breakout sessions presented by some very impressive and influentual people from the JavaScript world. Entertaining, even! Take a look at the schedule to see all the speakers and their topics.
Needless to say, there will be some serious learning and interesting interactions going on, and we want you to be part of the magic.
Sound good? Of course it does! See you in Boston!
Fall in with a good group
One of the most requested features for Wakanda – which we also felt was very important – is user- and group-based access. After all, any data-oriented application needs to address security.
As it will be soon implemented in Wakanda (and is currently available in the nightly builds), you can manage access via each solution's directory, where you create users and groups as well as assign users and groups to a specific group and develop your password system.
In each project, you give permission to one group to perform certain actions at three levels: Model, datastore class, and datastore class method.
Other levels are currently being developed.
You can assign permissions for the following:
- Model (for all the datastore classes and datastore class methods in the model)
- Datastore Classes (for a specific datastore classes and its methods)
- Datastore Class Methods (for a specific datastore class method)
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