On Thu, 27 Jun 2019, Darius Blaszyk wrote:
Hi all, I have been asked to write a limited functionality / mini ERP type of software for an NGO that is setting up a hospital. I'm doing this in my own time and free of charge. The compiler and IDE of choice are of course FreePascal & Lazarus. I’m still thinking about the direction to go exactly with this and I was hoping to get some feedback/support from the community here as I always have gotten over the years. The hardware of choice is already made and will be a network of several Chromebooks on which all staff will be logging in the system. This made me think that a desktop application is less feasible and I should look at a web-based solution. I found some frameworks such as ExtPascal, fano, Brook, pas2js. Unfortunately, I don't know much about web-based applications. So my question is whether any of the frameworks are mature enough to create a database driven application as described. Possibly there are other frameworks available that I don't know of but are worth investigating?
ExtPascal was a dead end and is now effectively dead (unless I am misinformed). I can't inform you about fano. As for the others: Brook & Pas2js are definitely worth investigating. Brook is a long-standing server platform for FPC. pas2js is used as the basis for TMS Web Core (a commercial product for Delphi/lazarus. pas2js is meanwhile very mature. (I use it myself extensively :)) You must use this if you wish to include a lot of browser-side functionality. If it is for charity, you could try getting a TMS Web core license for free. Programming then becomes like creating a desktop program; drag&drop.For server-side database Access, there is sqldbRestBridge. It is fairly new, but is scheduled to be included in TMS WEB core.
You can also simply program using fcl-web: simple HTTP request/response. All the others are based on top of it, if I am correct.
If you use bare-bones fcl-web, it's a bit like PHP: you always generate the full HTML on the server. Doubtlessly, there are other frameworks to work with. I work with the above ones (and developed 3 our of 4 :)) so I am of course giving a biased view... Michael.
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