Heads Up!

BladeRunnerJS is still in beta - but we're nearly at 1.0. We chose to use it for this workshop as it's a toolkit that we know well and has the concepts that will result in a maintainable and extensible front-end web app built-in. It will be possible to achieve similar results using other tooling that has been configured and set up accordingly - but we haven't found anything that delivers the same results out-of-the-box, or we'd be using it.

BRJS isn't at v1.0 yet so you may come across bugs and there may be a few things that aren't as we'd like them to be. We're software people who love to live on the bleeding edge, right? It's one of the things that makes software development exciting!

As a heads-up, you should be aware of the following:

• The testing experience is sub-optimal. So, we're not going to focus too heavily on tests.
• The Workbench code should be simplified to make it easier to take advantage of Workbenches.
• The Workbench ViewModel Visualizer does/doesn't work??!!

If you come across a problem then:

• Please shout at us. We're here to help
• Check if it's a known issue or a listed Gotcha then check out the FAQ & Gotcha reference
• Consider adding the Q&A to the shared Google Doc

Let's get developing!