Tuning Webix UI Library for OData protocol

As we know, web app development is a complex process that, on the one hand, consists of laborious work at the backend and, on the other hand, includes plenty of efforts while creating a nice-looking and responsive UI.

If you want to optimize the construction of your web applications, you need to find the best option for organizing your work with data as well as a fast and powerful js library for drawing app interface.

This variant can be implemented by using OData, an open data protocol for building RESTful API’s, and by adapting Webix UI library to its rules of requesting and modifying data.

OData’s goal is to enable a broad access to data regardless of the way it is stored. It allows requesting and updating resources via HTTP commands and provides an entire query language directly in the URL.

Well, if you are reading this post, you probably know a lot about Webix. If suddenly no, you can find more info here. All in all, I can say that our users find it fast and easy.

There is a wide range of services that expose their data using the OData protocol. Among them are such popular ones as Windows Azure Table Storage, Microsoft Dynamics, SharePoint, IBM DB2. You can find the full list of them here.

To show you how to build a feature-rich web app with a flexible backend and stylish user interface, we use a recently released DataBoom service. DataBoom is a DBAAS solution with a powerful rest API based on OData standard.

We’ve prepared some samples built with Webix and DataBoom. To check them please continue reading this post.