REACTIVE APPS: Improving experience and connectivity

WHAT ARE REACTIVE APPS?

The term "reactive apps" is a good description for the type of experience that users expect: agile and online applications, always ready to react to interaction, real-time information management, interaction with other people on the network, with independence of the connection intermittently. A challenge not?


The four reactive principles
In general, reactive applications are built under four basic principles, which we will deepen a little more then:

IMMEDIATE USER INTERFACE-RESPONSIVE

Reactive apps should update the user interface as soon as new data exists, without blocking with activity flags and thus eliminating tedious "refresh" buttons. Which makes it easy to interact immediately and without pause for the user.

RESILIENCE

Many applications are designed and developed under optimistic scenarios, but often things can go wrong. A resilente system applies appropriate design principles and information architecture to ensure the responsive behavior of the application. Considering even in the worst of scenarios, by example and the most common: lack of connection.

SCALABILITY

The resilience and scalability go hand in hand for the creation of a responsive application. A scalable system is easily updated or improved. In this way it ensures to maintain its capacity responsive in all kinds of scenarios and adapt to new realities.

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

An architecture based on the correct management of information, transactional and data integrity, is the fundamental basis for reactive apps. An application of this type can become a system managed by events or actors, always controlling the correct distribution of information structures in an integral way. To get a reactive application, you must focus all resources, programming languages and technical tools available to ensure the best user experience possible, without pauses and before any scenario considering a correct and appropriate architecture based on information management, scalability and resilience.

ONFIELD, EXAMPLE OF A REACTIVE APPLICATION FOR DATA CAPTURE AND CONTROL OF FIELD WORK

The team of Assertsoftbased on this principle has designed for years reactive applications, among them it is Onfield: reactive platform that allows the creation of reports based on online information, dynamic forms and data analysis for the monitoring and management of various types of field work; from data collection, surveys, activation compliance and multiple tasks in field such as activation of points of sale, technical service and maintenance, sales force, taking inventory, or accomplishment of rounds for security crews. All this with the ability to attach information, photos and even make reports and analysis of results in real time.

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Fuente: https://blog.redelastic.com/