Hi folks, part of my personal mission to integrate good ol' Java with modern JavaScript frameworks was the implementation of "Hot Reload". I am not talking of "automatic Browser refresh" but of live patching the code of a React client without losing component state.
Implementing a web app server side using Java has been getting ugly recently as its required to run a a full nodejs stack including a load of npm packages and javascript related stuff. By implementing a bundling and JSX Transpilation in native Java, kontraktor can help out and make things simple again (#MTSA).
you can't have a java article without picturing a cup of coffee ..
Gone are the days of server side web apps, though there are apparently still people out there trying to get something fancy out of .. [this blog has moved, continue reading here]