Recently I sat down and looked into some features and previous design decisions that made Jasonette needlessly more confusing that it needed to be, and fixed them. Here are the three: No more “String only” policy No mandatory requirement for “head” No more confusing tab bar 1. No more “String ONLY” policy Anyone who’s had to…

How sandboxed views talk to each other in Jasonette — Jasonette takes security very seriously. The entire architecture was built on a sandbox model that took inspiration from web browsers and applied to mobile context. Each view is completely sandboxed but they can communicate with other views through predefined protocols, resembling how microservices work. In this post I will explain: …

A New Approach for Blending Web Engine into Native Apps — What if I told you the 7 lines of JSON above, colored in orange is all you need to turn a website into a mobile app? No need to rewrite your website using some framework API just to make it behave like a mobile app. …

Nowadays we see QR code everywhere. We see it on a billboard, we see it embedded in product packaging, we use it to share Bitcoin public key. QR code is like a 2D version of barcode. As a publisher, you can pack all kinds of data in it as an…

Jasonette lets you build cross platform native mobile apps simply by writing a JSON markup. When you load your JSON markup URL from it, Jasonette “remote controls” all the built-in native Objective-C (iOS) and Java (Android) components/APIs, in realtime. What if you could do the same, but in a web…

The latest version of Jasonette supports a “Headerless view”, in other words a view without the header navigation bar at the top. See below images for an example. Depending on whether you define $jason.body.header or not, the header part shows up or goes away completely.

Now you can inject JavaScript libraries into JSON templates. — Jasonette has a powerful client-side template engine built in, which uses the commonly used {{ }} notation. It looks like this: { "items": [{ "type": "image", "url": "{{$jason.image}}" }, { "type": "label", "text": "{{$jason.username}}" }] } Aside from obvious templating features like #if, #each, etc., …

Build offline first apps with nothing but JSON. — Jasonette is an open source framework that makes it super easy to build iOS and Android native apps using just a single JSON markup. It’s like building a website by writing HTML, but you’re building a native app instead, by writing JSON. How to build cross-platform mobile apps using nothing more than a JSON markup For the past few months, I’ve been working on a new way to build cross-platform, native iOS and Android apps called…medium.freecodecamp.com

For the past few months, I’ve been working on a new way to build cross-platform, native iOS and Android apps called Jasonette. It lets you describe an entire app with nothing but a single JSON markup. If your app consists entirely of JSON, it can be treated like any other…