Deploy GWT / J2CL Web Apps on Azure Static Web Apps Service
In this short story I’ll show you how to deploy GWT / J2CL web apps on Microsoft Azure Static Web Apps Service. There are some advantages if you implement your web apps with Full CSR (Client Side Rendering) so that the web apps just run on your web browser and embrace the client computing power. The cost of cloud computing is one of it. In this case the cloud provider just has to deliver the static files without doing much processing on their side.
If you want to see why you should embrace the power of web browser you could take a look at my talk:
- Web Browser as a Platform: slides in English
- Web Browser as a Platform: YouTube video in German
GWT / J2CL is a Java to JavaScript transpiler, so in the runtime the web apps are pure HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Java is only available at the development time so that Java developers can use everything well known like Maven / Gradle, IntelliJ / Eclipse / NetBeans / Visual Studio Code and other tools and frameworks.
In my story list you can find different kind of GWT / J2CL articles, from beginner to expert. You could also take a look at the GWT Padlet for all up-to-date information about GWT / J2CL.
After you implement your web app with GWT / J2CL you would definitely deploy it…
