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There inevitably comes a time in a successful FileMaker application’s life where it needs to be extended to the web, usually as a customer portal.
WebDirect may suffice as a solution, but if the needs go beyond WebDirect’s capabilities, standard web technologies must be used, such as HTML, CSS, Javascript, and a backend scripting language like PHP.
Building an app on the web can be a daunting task for a FileMaker developer, especially a web app that’s as interactive and responsive as a FileMaker app.
Luckily, there are Javascript frameworks available to simplify and speed up the process of developing highly dynamic web apps, frameworks such as React, Angular, and Vue.js.
For FileMaker developers we recommend Vue.js as it has many parallels to the way FileMaker works that makes it easier to pick up, and because it’s a progressive framework, it can be used as little or as much as you want.
And Vue is not only useful for web portals: you can use Vue inside a web viewer to extend what’s possible on a FileMaker layout such as tree views, horizontal portals and cross tab reports.
In this article, we’ll go over the different concepts of Vue.js and how these provide some of the interactivity that FileMaker developers expect out-of-the-box with a development platform, and in the video, we’ll show you how to make a simple HTML editor using Vue that runs in a web viewer in FileMaker.
Read more on the blog post and/or watch the video ...
