haXe Forum > Is HaXe a good choice?

• Loriot Mar 11 at 10:02

  Hello,
  I am soon going to have to recreate our old management application in RIA. I compare at present the tools which will allow me to make the job easier.

  I am alone and HaXe would allow me to learn a single language to program everything. But of new frameworks, as GWT allows the same thing.

  In your opinion, HaXe can allow to create a Database Oriented Web Applications? A framework such as PureMVC + can HaXE help me to make a beautiful and fast application?

  I thank you in advance for the attention which you will carry in my questions.

  Loriot
  Warrior programmer

• Nick Sabalausky Mar 11 at 18:51

  I'm currently using Haxe to develop a database-oriented web app (that also integrates flash, aided by swfmill for bundling resources). It's working fine and absolutely beats the pants off of using straight PHP/SQL/ActionScript. I've never used PureMVC though (I tried to look into it once, but documentation on it seems to be practically non-existent. Haxe's docs could use some work, but they're still absolutely worlds ahead of PureMVC's docs from what I've seen so far). I'm not familiar with GWT or RIA.

• Loriot Mar 12 at 09:11

  Thansk for the reply.

  I have now to make tests to be sure not to make a mistake.
  I did not know swfmill but I am going to look, it could be very useful for me! I also saw xilib, very practical.

  For PureMVC, as my Web application will have to contain many AJAX and\or flash, the pattern MVC would be good for an easier maintenance. But the lack of docs is a great problem...

  In fact, my biggest problem is to have to create a great application, absolutely alone. It is feasible, interesting, but forces me to find adequate technologies.

  I hope that HaXe will be THE answer for me.

  Still thank you

  Lorito

• Nick Sabalausky Mar 13 at 18:14

  If you do go with Haxe, I'd recommend using SPOD ( http:haxe.org/doc/neko/spod ) for dealing with the database (The docs for it say that it's neko, but Haxe also has a version of it for PHP), and templo ( http:haxe.org/com/libs/templo ) for generating HTML/CSS. Or at least, those are what I'm using and it's working well. I don't recommend generating HTML with Haxe's Xml package, I tried that, but it was a mess (I don't think it was really designed for that sort of thing anyway). There might be other alternatives out there, but I'm not aware of them.

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